(FCA) Family Centered Approach; Truancy Reduction of Tarusan Integrated Secondary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study is the main problem in Tarusan Integrated Secondary School. Students have this mind set of volition in prolonging the vacation and free will when the learners will come/go to school, in which the said behavior becomes rampant that passes through transition of level. The influence of senior student is effective that teachers' instruction and classroom norms had been bypassed. Teachers innovatively reach out students’ reasons of truancy. The truancy has been inculcated to three terms the famous tallied truancy is the Absenteeism, cutting classes, and Tardiness. The problem should be given solution, thus, researcher keenly observe and put a linkage to reach out students and bring closer to school. Family Centered Approach is necessary to build a good rapport to family and teacher just to understand the children truancy and give proper intervention to prevent away ofschool.

METHODS

Simple description was used to identify the problem using the closely interviews and counting the reasons through FCA, truancy was computed with mean percentage. There are 12 students; 7 males and 5 females identified truant for the S.Y.2018-2019.

RESULTS

It reveals that the highest truancy of male students is absenteeism next is cutting classes and tardiness. Upon, conducting FCA the most reasons of truancy are games; basketball, computer games/Facebook/internet; poor economic status; child labor. After conducting the FCA the cutting classes becomes zero and minimal absenteeism while tardiness was gone too.

DISCUSSIONS

As the second mother/parent of the children we are mingling for 8 hours a day the researcher has a big factor to motivate them in giving advises to put serious attention with regards to their education. The most saying had given was "worry not for today but for tomorrow”. What will happen tomorrow will make your life to the utmost of hardship. Therefore, the reasons tallied motivate the teachers to exert more efforts on the extent of implementation and the retention of FCA is necessary to keep the students in school