School Climate and Parental Involvement in School Activities

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The educational system in the Philippines, in spite of some efforts such as established by Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) to increase parental involvement at school has not yet reached to a high level as expected. The researcher had observed the less participation of parents in any school activities in most of the schools of Tago 2 District that caused low academic achievements of their pupils. In this study, the researcher provides intervention programs to address the aforementioned gaps.

METHODS

Lottery Method and Stratified Proportional Random Sampling was used in identifying the respondents. There were eleven teachers and Two hundred two parents across 6 indicators of school climate and 10 indicators for Parental Involvement to set a standardized survey questionnaire. Data in the quantitative description was analyzed quantitatively.

RESULTS

The results of the study found out that most of the teacher-respondents are middle-aged, all females who completed their college education. They are in the entry level position in teaching serving for five years the most and have obtained seminars and training on parental involvement. For the parent-respondents, they belonged to the middle-adult age-bracket. They are mostly males obtaining a high school degree. Their mode of income is through farming earning 5,000 a month. On the extent of the respondents' rating on school climate, both teachers and parents exhibit a very satisfactory rating on all six dimensions of school climate. On the significant relationship between the profile of the respondents and the school climate, only the position of the teacher-respondents obtained a significant relationship. On the level of parental involvement as perceived by the two groups of respondents, the overall rating for all benchmark statements is very satisfactory. On the significant relationship between the school climate and parental involvement, both groups perceived it to be highly significant.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrated the need of active participation of parents in any school activities of their children. There is a need to adopt the intervention program suggested in this study and also enhance the parental involvement and the school climate as a whole. Implementation of "Engaging Parents in Schools: Building Parent-School Partnership: A Three-Year Intervention Program" was a constant factor in the success of the innovation.