Landscape of Electronics Instruction: Teachers’ Teaching Difficulties and Coping Strategies
Electronics course is one of the vital components of Technical Vocational and Livelihood strand of the K to 12 Curriculum. As such, evaluation of the electronics instruction is vital. In such light, this case study explored the teaching difficulties and coping strategies of two electronics teachers. The interviews with teachers and learners, classroom observations, and focus group with the learners revealed that difficulty in dealing with diverse learners and lack of teaching resources are the identified difficulties of the teachers. With these difficulties, using varied learning activities and buying or borrowing instructional materials are the coping strategies of the teachers. Therefore, this study posits that successful electronics instruction is dependent on capability of teachers to deal with the diversity among learners and the availability of learning resources.