Undergraduate Thesis Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English University of Rizal System, Rodriguez, Rizal 2012

This study was conducted to determine the problems encountered in the implementation of UBD as perceived by the selected public secondary school teachers of Montalban

Eighty (80) Public Secondary School Teachers in Montalban were taken as respondents. The questionnaire-checklist was used to gather the needed data. The instrument contained three (3) probable problems encountered to choose from, that teacher's preparedness, lesson accomplishments and materials as perceived by the respondents.

Statistical treatment of data included percentage, frequency distribution and ranking to present the profile of the respondents. Mean was used to get the Problems Encountered in the Implementation of UBD as perceived by the selected Public Secondary School Teachers of Montalban. ANOVA was used to test if there is a significant difference in the perceptions of the respondents on the problems encountered in the implementation of UBD with regard to the profile of the respondents.

The findings of the study revealed the following: with regard to sex 71.25 percent are females while the remaining 28.75 are males. Majority of the respondents are within the age bracket of 31-35 with a total of 29 or 36.25 percent. Twenty one of them belong to the age of bracket of 36-40 with a percentage of 26.25, while sixteen or 20 percent are between the ages of 26-30. Seven or 8.75 percent of them belong to the age bracket of 20-25. Four of them belong to the age bracket of 46-50 with a percentage of 5. And only three of them belong to the age bracket of 41-45 with 3.75 percent. In terms of their length of service majority of the respondents fall under the year bracket of 2-5 years with a total of 33 or 41.25 percent. Twenty seven of them belong to the bracket of 6-9 years with a percentage of 33.75, while thirteen or 16.25 percent are within 10-13 years of service, 4 or 5 percent of them belong to the bracket of 1 year and below length of service. Only 3 of them belong to the bracket of 14 years and above length of service with 3.75 percent. In terms of Educational Attainment the majority of the teacher have Bachelor's degree at 53 or 66.25 percent which ranked no.1, while teachers with MA units are 22 or 27.50 percent which ranked as no. 2. Teachers who are MA graduates are at 4 or 5 percent which ranked as no.3 and teachers with Doctorate units constitute 1 or 1.25 percent which ranked no. 4.

As for problems encountered in the implementation of UBD, the item "teachers encourage students' questions" has a weighted mean of 3.95 and interpreted as Often. On Lesson Accomplishment "need to complete a unit design and go through a peer review to have a basic understanding" yielded a weighted mean 3.40 and interpreted as sometimes.

On Materials, "suggested activities are not applicable to the students in terms of cultural values" yielded a weighted mean of 3,30 and interpreted as sometimes.

On the significant difference in the Problems Encountered in the Implementation of UBD as Perceived by the Public Secondary School Teachers in Montalban, in terms of sex, the computed p-value was 0.001 less than the tabular value of 2.451 so the null hypothesis is rejected, therefore there is a significant difference in the perceptions of the respondents on the problems encountered in the implementation of UBD and their profile in terms of sex. In terms of age the computed f-value 11.766 is greater than the 0.5 level of significance, so the null hypothesis failed to be rejected, therefore there is no significant difference between the problems encountered in the implementation of UBD and the profile of the respondents in terms of age as perceived by the respondents. In terms of years in teaching the computed f- value is 3.45 which is less than 0.5 level of significance so the null hypothesis is rejected, therefore there is a significant difference between the problems encountered in the implementation of UBD and the profile of the respondents in terms of years in teaching. In terms of educational attainment the computed f-value 4.25 is less than the 0.5 level of significance so the null hypothesis is rejected; therefore there is a significant difference in the perception of the respondents on the problems encountered in the implementation of UBD and the profile of the respondents in terms of educational attainment.

Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: The majority of the respondents are females. On the teacher's preparedness it implied that most of our respondents encountered had problems of encouraging their students to ask questions. On the lesson accomplishment, the majority of the respondents need to complete a unit design and go through a peer review to have a basic understanding while on the materials, most of the respondents answered that suggested activities found in the UBD module cannot be complied with because of lack of materials. UBD is an acceptable approach to the teaching of content area subjects as perceived by the respondents.