The Extent of Implementation of School-Community Partnership in East Five Cluster, Division of Calamba City: An Input to School Improvement Plan

Authors

  • Melicin Leyva

Keywords:

parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community

Abstract

Introduction

As the curriculum changes together with the demand of the 21st-century learners, the needs of the learners also increases. The Department of Education, as a public institution, cannot solely support these demands even with the help of the local government. As the needs arise, the school has to find their partner to support the programs intended for the learners, thus, the school-community partnership takes place. However, there is a difficulty in finding stakeholders that will support the needs of the learners. East Five Cluster has six elementary schools that are located in an urban area, wherein business and opportunities are numerous. Businesses are strategically located around East Five, which means there are bigger possibilities to invite stakeholders that will cater to the needs of the learners for the learning to take place and to meet the demands of the 21st-century learners.

 

Methods

This study was a descriptive research design. The researcher used the survey method type. The participants were the teachers of the six elementary schools in the East Five cluster. The data gathered from the participants were treated confidentially.

 

Results

The status of extent of implementation of school-community partnership in terms of parenting attained a composite general mean of 3.82; Communicating with general mean of 4.36; general mean of 4.09 for learning at home; Volunteering with general mean of 3.87; decision making with general mean of 4.06, and general mean of 3.82 for collaborating with the community. The mutual benefits of the partnership included improved educational quality for students and improved community goodwill. This result gives extremely evident as the significant factors of the research. Even though the main findings of the research were highly evident, there were two factors underlies as the least priority in the research, specifically, parenting and the collaborating with the community. Therefore, there is a need to enhance and develop a plan to improve the partnership.

 

Discussions

School stakeholders not only helped identify potential partners, but also were often served as members of an Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) that worked alongside these prospective community partners to develop relationships, share school needs, and explore the possibility of establishing a new school-community partnership (Epstein et al., 2011). The findings of the study were highly evident based on Epstein's Six Types of Involvement; parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community. Although the main findings were highly evident, the challenge of this research is the consistency of the stakeholders to allot the same time and resources provided from the previous partnership. I recommend future research to find out how stakeholders can sustain the partnership.

Published

2019-12-18