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APPENDIX C
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
AIDE MEMOIRE (Interview Guide)
PREAMBLE
(Salutation) Good day to you Sir. I am Daniel Joseph E. Berdida. You can call me DJ. I
am a PhD CIN candidate of Philippine Normal University. Presently, I am working on my
dissertation paper entitled “Role of Nomophobia Smartphone Afdic
((Purpose) As a vital part of this academic pursuit, I am inviting you for a one-on-
one interview session that will capture your personal experience of the said
phenomenon. This interview will be audio-recorded and it will be conducted in the
Filipino language.
(Motivation) Your participation in this study shall be useful in exploring and
understanding the process undergone by secondary schools teachers about unteachable
moments.
(Consent) Before we start, I would like to ask for your consent and sign the consent form
if you are willing to participate in this study.
(Time) This activity will take an hour on the average. Do you have any questions or
concerns? Are you ready now to share your experiences with me?
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
Data Aspect Accounts
Your Name: ________________ Your Civil Status: ______
I. Participant’s Robotfoto Your place of residence: ________________
(at this point, I will initially Your age: ________ Your Religion: ______________
ask you about certain Your highest educational attainment:
demographic information __ Bachelor’s degree __ Doctorate
that would somehow undergraduate
complement my research __ Masters undergraduate __ Doctorate graduate
data for analysis. Please __ Master’s graduate
fill in the required Academic Rank: _______
information and tick the Years in service:
boxes as appropriate.) __ 5-10 years __ 16-20 years
__ 11-15 years __ 21 years above
Year level handled: ____
Section handled: _____
Subjects taught: ____________________________
I. This segment of the interview will account for an in-depth reconstruction of your unteachable
moments. To facilitate retrieval of information in an orderly fashion during the interview, three
phases will be followed:
Preliminary Questions (Icebreaker)
1. What comes in your mind when you hear these words: teacher, student, classroom,
teachable moments, unteachable moments, difficulty
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2. Why did you decide to become a teacher?
3. Can you describe your typical day as a teacher?
4. When are you happy most as a teacher? Sad as a teacher?
5. How do students treat you as a teacher?
Core Questions:
1. How do you prepare your teaching lessons?
2. What is a teacher should be? a student should be?
3. Can you describe how you felt when you encounter difficulty of teaching?
4. What changes, if any, have you personally experienced during difficulties of teaching?
Where you able to successfully adapt to these changes?
5. What mechanisms or ways did you find helpful in your adjustment to those changes?
6. Can you describe an event when you are teaching and it has been disrupted? What
causes this disruption?
7. During your teaching lessons, how do you describe the level of participation of your
students? What are the strategies you use to enhance their participation?
8. Can describe situation/s when students during teaching seem unreachable? How do
you deal with it?
9. What strategies do you use in to close the gap between you and student/s? How
important it is to you?
10. How do you know that your students experiences conflicting knowledge? What are
the interventions you did to address it?
11. What feelings or behavior do your students manifest when they experience conflicting
knowledge? What are the actions you did to deal with it?
12. Can you narrate an event that your confidence has been affected by conflicts in the
classroom? After that, how confident are you in delivering the contents of the subject?
How do you feel about it? How your students do perceived it? What remedies you do
to enhance your confidence?
Ending Questions:
1. What do you think are the most important ways to do if facing those difficulties in
teaching?
2. Have you grown up as a teacher since those moments? Tell me about the
strengths you discovered or developed through these experiences?
3. After having all these experiences, what advice would you give to a teacher who
has just discovered difficult situations in teaching?
4. Is there anything that you might not have thought about before that occurred to
you during this interview?
5. Is there anything else you think I should understand better?
6. Is there anything else you would like to ask me?
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PARTICIPANT’S ROBOTFOTO
Direction: Check the items that apply to you or write down the information called for.
1. Your Name: ________________ Your Civil Status: ______
2. Your place of residence: ________________
3. Your age: ________
4. Your Religion: ______________
5. Your highest educational attainment:
__ Bachelor’s degree __ Doctorate undergraduate
__ Masters undergraduate __ Doctorate graduate
__ Master’s graduate
6. Academic Rank: _______
7. Years in service:
__ 5-10 years __ 16-20 years
__ 11-15 years __ 21 years above
8. Year level handled: ____
9. Section handled: _____
10. Subjects taught: _____________________________
