Paints: Parents Active Involvement in Nurturing Teamwork and Support

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The PAINTS on GPP was developed to strengthen the objectives of School-Based Feeding Program. Through Gulayan sa Paaralan Program, Laiya Elementary School will have a sustainable source of nutritious food that will help the realization of decreasing the rate of malnutrition among pupils.

Based on the recent school report entitled “School Consolidated Parents' Attendance on GPP SY 2017-2018”, 17.42% or 46 out of 264 parents attended during the entire duration of GPP which is below the 75% expectation. This project aims to get at least 50% or 92 parents increase in the total number of attendees to participate on the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program for the SY 2018-2019.

METHODS

This project used different research methodologies to analyze data. Using survey forms and questionnaires, the researchers collected data as to why there is a low rate of parents' participation in different school programs which is more apparent in the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP). The collected results were then analyzed to determine the severity of the problem.

RESULTS

The results showed that most of the reasons as to why parents attend less to different school programs are mainly of 1) too much workload at home, 2) with younger offspring to attend to, 3) less follow-up from the school, 4) too old (age), 5) reside too far from the school. 2 out of 5 causes were identified as controllable and can be mitigated by identifying and providing them necessary adjustments.

The study revealed that there is a dramatical increase of parents' participation after conducting the pilot testing of the program, following the response strategy of the project. The academe recorded a 54.17% difference in the total number of parents attended GPP in SY 2017-2018 and SY 2018-2019.

DISCUSSIONS

Parents' active participation is very important in every school endeavor. Every academe should always take into consideration that there should be a good medium of communication among stakeholders.

In this project, Laiya Elementary School (LES) has found out that the PROCESS being used to disseminate information for the implementation of every program needed tobe modified. Modifying the Current SIPOC can help improve parents' active involvement in the school. Likewise, identifying the needs and wants of stakeholders is a great help to make that happen.