University of the Philippines

Curriculum Studies Area

Diliman, Quezon City

Name of employee:_______________________________ Years of stay:___________

Subject/s handled:_______________________________ Department:____________

SURVEY ON THE EFFECTS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE ON IN-SERVICE

TEACHERS IN ADAPTING TO CHANGE IN THE WORKPLACE

A. Check the column that corresponds to your answer.

Questions Yes No
1. Do you feel secured in your workplace? 31 0
2. Have you experienced sudden change in the workplace? 25 6
3. Are you that person who finds it difficult to cope up with sudden changes? 8 23
4. Are you that person who welcomes sudden changes in the workplace? 29 2
5. Have you attended in-service trainings before? 31 0
6. Have you studied Personal Development course before or other similar 24 7
subjects that focus on one’s identity?
7. Would you like to attend to seminars or trainings focusing on one’s identity? 30 1
8. Do you think attending trainings that focus on one’s identity will have an 31 0
effect on your working behaviour?
9. Do you think attending trainings on personal development will help you to 31 0
cope up with sudden changes?
10. Do you think attending sports training will have a positive effect in your 30 1
personal development?

B. Kindly answer the questions stipulated below in the most honest and truthful way possible.

1. What are the common struggles that you encounter in the workplace?
 Difficult Parents (4)
 Students with individual needs and special needs (5)
 Paperworks/workload (7)
 Low-order tasks to please the parents
 Task management
 Coping up with changes (2)
 Students’ misbehavior and attitudes (8)
 Deadlines (3)
 Balancing work and life activities
 Inconsistency of the rules
 Time management
 Communication and interpersonal problems
 Extended workplace
 Time management
 Temperament issues

2. If it happens that the institution will include sports training as part of in-service training, what
particular sport would you like to have?
1. Basketball (5)
2. Volleyball (12)
3. Badminton (15)
4. Gymnastics
5. Swimming (8)
6. Table tennis
7. Archery
8. Taekwondo
 9. Obstacle courses/circuit trainings
10. Bowling
11. Triathlon
12. Sepak takraw
13. Arnis

3. Do you think sports training will help you improve your working behaviour? If yes, in what ways
will it help you? If no, why not?
1. Yes, to be physically fit and mentally ready
2. Yes, teachers will be more flexible
3. No
4. No, if it is a requirement. I would see it as another extra time spent in the workplace leading to no
direct impact on my motivation to teach.
5. Yes, because my body will be able to adjust easily in different tasks inside the workplace.
6. Yes, because whenever I feel energized and whenever I move my body, I feel that my stress lessens
and I feel happier
7. Yes, because it will help us to be competent and helps to deal with success and failure in a positive
way
8. Yes, in physical aspects
9. Yes, sports is a good outlet of stress
10. Somehow, but it will not totally improve one’s working behavior. It might help because sports
training also tests one’s patience and improve one’s social skills. These two, when properly develop,
might help an employee to have an improved working behavior.
11. Yes, it will help me build strong leadership, dealing well with teammates and gives me sense of
cooperation.
12. Yes, for it will help each to improve camaraderie and discipline
13. Yes, it will help me build my management skills, dealing with groups and developing discipline
14. Yes, for this will help me build confidence and my skills in managing the classroom
15. Yes, having an active body may improve one’s concentration and attitude towards work
16. Yes, it will help me to be physically fit
17. In some ways, yes, it will develop patience and cooperation
18. Yes, it can help my physical body to adapt well into different/multi tasks that I will encounter during
work
19. Yes, I think it will boost my energy and it will help me develop good rapport with my workmates
20. Interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, collaborative
21. Yes, it will help specifically self-discipline and time management
22. Yes, it will help me to improve my skills and my health because of the physical training. It also
relieves stress.
23. Yes, it will show the virtue sense of family and the unity of everyone
24. Yes, to build camaraderie in the workplace
25. Yes, in terms of proper communication and teamwork
26. Yes, because I believe that it will help us to improve our health and patience
27. Yes, it will help me to be physically fit and mentally healthy
28. Yes, because it will develop my personality and attitude towards challenges that I will face in the
future whether it’s work or personal life
29. Yes, there will be a balance in the mind and body. It will be an outlet where I can release stress and
pressures. It will help me to start anew
30. Yes, it helps our body getting fit and it is the best way to relieve stress
31. Yes, sports for me is one of my forms of relaxation that really improves my good behavior especially
in the workplace

4. Have you attended in-service trainings on personal development before? If yes, how did these
trainings benefit your performance in the workplace?
1. No, not yet
2. No
3. Yes, I gained new ideas to share with my students
4. Yes, it helped me to become more ready and confident in working in the institution
5. Yes, it had helped me to discover my other skills and widen my ideas on how to handle my work.
6. No
7. Yes, to know the different personality of the teachers and students
8. No answer
 9. Yes, yes, it improved my interaction with my colleagues and with my students as their second
parents
10. Yes, it helps me to improve my views on things that are new to me and cope up easily if there’s a
problem
11. It gave me background on how to handle different behavior, personalities that I’ve experienced in the
past
12. Personal growth and professional development
13. No answer
14. Yes, it gives me the background/experience of what I should expect to do and to adjust when I’m
already in the workplace.
15. Not yet
16. Yes, to be more presentable to other people and be more professional
17. Yes, it had helped me know myself more (strength and weaknesses) which aid on how I do task in
my workplace
18. Not yet
19. Not yet
20. Not yet
21. Not yet
22. Yes, I had. Those trainings helped me to see myself as a brand ambassador of myself. It improved the
way I deal with others as I slowly developed the important traits that I should have. Additionally, I
performed way better in my work after attending such trainings.
23. Yes, it helps me a lot in my preparation and expectation
24. Yes, it helped me to foresee different situations that I would encounter in our workplace
25. Yes, it helps me to improve my personality and handle difficulties/problems
26. Yes, I learned how to assess myself, my co-workers, and students so that I will better serve them and
learn how to respond in different situation and personality of my students and co-worker.
27. Yes, because I am much more aware of the things that I need to do as well as the actions of the
people surrounding me.
28. Yes, these in-service trainings contributed specialized knowledge and skills with day-to-day tasks
29. No
30. Yes, it helped me in terms of dealing with parents and how to stay composed even when faced with
difficult parents
31. Not applicable

5. Do you think undertaking personal development course or understanding one’s identity will have
an effect on how you deal with changes such as the changes that occur in the workplace?
1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes
4. Yes, I think I would become more open to such change
5. Yes, because it will be easier for me to understand the behavior of the people and how am I going to
adjust on the changes that may occur in the workplace
6. Yes, because if you are more open to such changes and know how to respond I believe that it will be
less difficult for us teachers to comply in changes.
7. Yes, because it helps us to know or to understand those things and having a knowledge with it.
8. Yes
9. Yes, knowing thy self is one of the things a person must have
10. Yes, if an employee knows himself well, and knows how to be resilient, he will be able to deal with
any changes that will occur in his workplace. Knowing one’s core and staying grounded to this core
will be the driving force for an employee to cope up with changes, as changes are constant. He will
be able to adapt to these changes as long as these changes are within his core.
11. Yes, because it will enlighten my beliefs and will help me because more understanding towards the
others.
12. Yes, for it will help each employee to enhance their understanding towards other workmates.
13. Yes, because it will enhance and develop employees’ attitude/ behavior in dealing with changes.
14. Yes, for this will help the employees/ workers to have trust and understand their co-workers
15. Yes
16. Yes
17. Yes, it will have an effect especially on how you treat the people around you
18. Yes
19. No answer
20. Yes
21. Yes, because it develops self-composure whenever I encounter changes in the workplace
22. Yes, because it helps you to understand things that are new to you or even a sudden change because
you were equipped with this knowledge.
23. Yes
24. Yes
25. Yes
26. Yes, because you will understand why you cope up with those changes
27. Yes
28. Yes
29. Yes
30. Yes, it will definitely improve myself more on how to deal with the changes in the workplace
31. Yes