Teachers' Competency and Learners' Performance in English of Grade 2 Pupils: Basis for an Intervention Scheme

Teachers, who are the most important factor of education, have the great task of inculcating to the learners the knowledge, skill and behavior needed in facing the everchanging society. Thus, the teachers’ task to transmit knowledge requires them to be a highly competent learning facilitators while remaining as a role model soaring with moral integrity. This means that a school must not only have educationally qualified teachers but teachers who are truly dedicated and committed to serve the public specially the learners entrusted to their care. This study is focused to determine teachers’ competency and learners’ performance in English of grade two teachers in Manila particularly in District V. Likewise, the benefits derived from the study hope to provide a springboard to design an intervention scheme towards gearing effort into improving the quality education