Implementation of Gulayan Sa Paaralan Program (GPP) in All Public Schools of San Nicolas District

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Gulayan sa Paaralan Program intends also to feed the school children with the school produce taking into consideration the result of the Nutritional Status Survey made by the teachers. However, it seems that GPP was not disseminated to all the school administrators especially in far-flung areas as both teachers and school heads focus their energy on other programs of the Department of Education such as Brigada Eskwela, Teachers' Month Celebration, Disaster Preparedness, Gender and Development, Sports Competition and among others. In such a premise, the researcher was motivated to conduct the current study to assess the status of the implementation of the GPP in all public schools both elementary and secondary in San Nicolas District.

METHODS

In this study, the researcher used the descriptive method of research. To assess the status of the implementation of the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) in all public schools of San Nicolas District, Division of Batangas for the School Year 2016 -2017 both elementary and secondary schools, the researcher sought the involvement of the teachers from both elementary and secondary school regardless of their position as longthey have been serving for five years and above and their school administrators whether Teacher -in -Charge Head Teachers and Principals of San Nicolas District.

RESULTS

From the 156 respondents of both teachers and administrators, the majority of them are teachers and school heads. The data revealed that among the two groups of respondents, a huge number of them or 50 respondents which was equaled to 35 percent clustered in the 10 -19 years of experience. The teachers and school administrators have been moderately establishing and maintaining school gardens as evinced by the highest mean score of 3.83 or to a moderate extent. This was inferred by the average weighted mean of 4.05. It can be inferred that the teachers and school administrators are greatly affected by the problems regarding the implementation of GPP as evinced by the average weighted mean of 4.17.

DISCUSSIONS

To attain a very great extent of implementation of the GPP, school heads and the teachers of San Nicolas District must implement regularly all the programs related to GPP with the participation of the parents, stakeholders and other government-related agencies so that the real purpose of GPP must be realized. Constant coordination with the stakeholders must be made so that teachers and school heads will be able to solicit any kind of resources.