Teachers' Pedagogical Competence: A Paramount Basis for Learners' Academic Performance

The study sought to find out the correlation between teachers' pedagogical competence in terms of lesson planning and preparation, classroom management, teaching-learning processes, subject matter language proficiency, learning assessment, and learners' academic performance in the South District in the Division of Gingoog City for the School Year 2024-2025. The descriptive-correlational research method was utilized, and the Statistical tools used in the study were meant to determine the level of the teacher-respondents' pedagogical competence. In contrast, frequency and percentages were used to determine the learners' academic performance. Pearson's r was utilized to ascertain the significant relationship between the teachers' pedagogical competence and learners' academic performance. Results showed that teachers' pedagogical competence in terms of lesson planning and preparation, classroom management, teaching-learning processes, and subject matter language proficiency had a positive correlation to learners' academic performance. At the same time, learning assessment was not significantly related to learners' performance. As a summary, it was recommended that teachers should provide an inclusive learning activities to suit the learning levels of each learner; enhance classroom atmosphere to make it more safe and an ensuring environment to support learning, imposed positive discipline through defining classroom rules and conduct conference with parents every grading period; implement and utilize the technical-knowledge on innovative and advanced technology-supported teaching approaches and strategies, deliver the lesson in a more concise yet simple, precise, and accurate with emphasis on clarity to avoid confusion and vagueness to learners, and finally; apply all the approaches and techniques in learning assessment and strictly implement the learning assessment action plan.