Project Parenticipation for Pupils Instructional Progress

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The study aimed to identify the parents' level of participation in the different school programs and projects that affect pupils' instructional progress.

METHODS

The study made used of the descriptive method of research with questionnaires as the main data gathering instrument. The respondents were the total population of teachers from Nag-iba ElementarySchool. The statistical tools used were the simple weighted mean, frequency and ranking.RESULTSTeacher-respondents assessed the common problems they observed based from their everyday experiences with their pupils. From the results, the factor that ranked first that hinder parents to be involved in school programs was their work-time conflict with school activities followed by the extensive travel they had to school and having young children at home which both ranked 2.5 with the second highest number of answers.

DISCUSSIONS

From among the given factors, parents' involvement was interpreted to be very effective in helping pupils' development of good study habits. This ranked first with a weighted mean of 3.0. It is believed that there is always a role for parents with kids’ school work no matter what grade the student is in the activities which reveal that the parents’ level of participation in school programs and projects were just sometimes observed. Thus, there is a great need to improve parents' level of involvement with these matters.