Abstract
This study assessed the level of teacher morale among private and public high school teachers during the pandemic. Ten individuals were invited to the in-depth interview (IDI), and seven people were invited to the focus group (FGD). For the exploratory factor analysis, 200 teachers were used, and for the confirmatory factor analysis, 200 more teachers with a total of 400 private and public-school teachers in the Municipality of Kabacan. This study employed an exploratory sequential design. The data gathering tool contained formulated interview guide that asks questions about their thoughts on teachers’ morale for in-depth-interview (IDI) and focus group discussion (FGD). The results revealed that factor analysis indicate that a teacher morale has four factors that include motivation and optimism, subjective wellbeing, status and self-regulation and self-efficacy and Teacher Morale Questionnaire with 38 items was developed to measure the teachers’ morale. Reliability test revealed the results on teachers’ morale the overall Cronbach’s Alpha value of .909 which interpreted as high. It means that the validity of the instrument was very high and suitable for using the instrument as a tool. Results from the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed that there are 38 items of set of questionnaires that are suitable for factor loading. This means that these items are appropriate and pass the face validity for measuring tools in the study
Keywords: teachers’ morale, pandemic, exploratory sequential design, Municipality of Kabacan