The College of Science has been awarded the AACCUP Level II status and is scheduled for a visit for the Level III accreditation. To meet the requirements for the area on extension, an assessment of the training needs of secondary school teachers in Mondragon, Northern Samar was conducted to guide the College of Science for its effective training program for teachers.The respondents were the public and private secondary school teachers in Mondragon, Northern Samar. The needs assessment questionnaire from OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) was adopted, with few revisions to fit the respondents’ characteristics. A Likert-type scale was used to determine the degree of impact in the participation for each area, and to classify the level of expressed needs of the respondents. Frequency counts, ranking, means and weighted means were utilized as statistical treatment tools to determine and describe the level of needs.This TNA provides a justification for the College of Science’s extension program in the different secondary schools in Mondragon, Northern Samar focusing on the following: (1) Skills development: ICT skills for teaching, student discipline and student counselling, school management and administration; classroom management; student assessment practices; teaching in a multicultural setting; instructional practices in subject field/s, and teaching students with special learning needs. (2) Content knowledge on the following subject field/s: Statistics and Probability and Geometry for Mathematics Department; General Chemistry, Laboratory Techniques, Electricity and Magnetism for Physical Sciences Department; Basic instrumentation, Genetics and Evolution for Biological Sciences Department; Disaster Preparedness and Earth Science for Environmental Science Department; and, Application Program like MS Word, Excel, internet and webpage design for Information Technology Department.
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