Impact of Parent-Teacher Partnership to the Academic Performance of Primary Grade Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of the parents’ and teachers’ partnership towards the academic performance of primary grade pupils. Parents and teachers are equally important in a child's academic success. Parents are experts in rearing children; teachers are experts on the curriculum. Teachers are not only involved in educating children, but they are also involved in working with parents to improve educational outcomes in school.

METHODS

This study utilized the quantitative research design particularly descriptive to answer the problems of the study. This was conducted at Carmen Central Elementary School -Poblacion Carmen, Surigao del Sur. The stratified random sampling method was used to identify the respondents of the study. A total of one hundred forty two (142) pupils and one hundred thirty five (135) parents and nine (9) teachers were the respondents. In order to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of data, the Frequency Counting, Weighted Mean and Pearson-Product-Moment Correlation were used.

RESULTS

The findings revealed that the demographic profile of the respondents were married females who were 35 years and above and their monthly income is 8,000 and beyond with 4 to 7 members in the family for both parents and teachers. Parents' highest educational attainments were high school and college graduate for teachers. Strategies employed by teachers to the academic performance of the child in school showed that "telephone skills/text message/phone calls" under teachers' communication is a way of providing assistance to parents. The findings showed the challenges met by the parents was indicator number 11 which states that "Ang homework sa akong anak dili sayon o lisud kaayo" . Thus, there is a need to follow-up pupils' performance in school by consulting the teachers and work together as partners in molding the future of the school children.

DISCUSSIONS

However, there is a significant relationship between the monthly income, and parents' educational attainment to the strategies employed by the parents and teachers. This implies that monthly income and educational attainment of parents do not affect the academic performance of a child.

Effective parent-teacher partnership can happen in every different ways.