Teacher’s Time Management and Student’s Academic Achievement in LPU College of Nursing: Basis for an Enhanced Classroom Management

Today, the concept of time and its management is much more important than it was in the past. With the fast-faced world where technology plays an important role in knowledge and information dissemination, people, especially professionals are working harder and longer to achieve their goals as academicians. How people manage their time will determine for how successful they become in the various aspects of their career and life undertakings. Objectives: The study aimed to determine the teacher’s time management and student’s academic achievement of the College of Nursing. Specifically, the study sought to determine the time management used by nursing university professors using the areas of time management evaluation as to a) allocated time; b) engaged time; c) individual engaged time; c) teacher use of time and d) academic learning time; to present the academic achievement of nursing students in terms of their GWA in the nursing professional subjects; to test relationship of the nursing University professors ’ time management styles and the academic achievement of nursing students and to propose program to enhance classroom management of nursing university professors. Method: The study employed the descriptive-correlational design. As applied in this study, initially, description was made to discover the present time management time of the university professors. On a deeper perspective, the academic achievement of nursing students in terms of their general weighted average in professional subjects was also described. Using the purposive non-probability sampling technique, the participants of the study constituted the full-time nursing faculty members during the first semester of Semestral Year (S.Y.) 2011- 2012. For th