Community Involvement among Public Elementary School Teachers in Building School-Based Community Relation

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The teacher plays a varied role in the community. In the broader sense, the teacher is expected to serve mankind regardless of time and space. Through this work, education and environment should be also redirected to better ways of handling and operating community activities by the public school teachers.

METHODS

This study is descriptive research, an investigation regarding community activities as a predictor of teachers’ teaching performance. The study uses the following statistical treatment: Percentage, Weighted Mean, and T-Test. The respondents of this study are the one hundred sixty-three (163) public teachers in the elementary school of Talisay District.

RESULTS

Building a strong and functional school -community-based relation is one of the programs a school should develop, especially if the school likes to solicit community participation in its activities. The findings will provide a baseline in developing a framework on how to build a school and community-based relations. The framework may be jointly developed by the school members and the community so that aspects of the community needed to be strengthened with the help of the school teachers will be given equal attention.

DISCUSSIONS

The researcher further recommends that the school and community must design a framework where there will be continuous and sustainable involvement of teachers in areas that need improvement and strengthening in the community. The skills and expertise of teachers should be tapped and maximized so that they will contribute to the betterment of the community.