Involvement of Parents in Different School Activities at Ticalan Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Some of the school-related activities that parents need involvement include school feeding, Brigada Eskwela, Homeroom/ GPTA meeting, Gulayan sa Paaralan, and other school culminating activities, events, and affairs. In these activities, parent is just simply showing up but full support is not evident. Observations show that parents whose children belong to low performing group find difficult to work hand-in-hand with the school for their children's progress. The foregoing concepts motivated the researcher to undertake this study to determine parent's point of view regarding participation in school activities, assessment of the parent's participation in Brigada Eskwela, Homeroom/GPTA Meeting, Feeding Program, Gulayan sa Paaralan, and Academic Contest of their child, and reasons of the respondents of not giving their full support in school and to what extent do they support different school activities at Ticalan Elementary School. The researcher as an educator wants to reach out and build a strong partnership of every parent of school children to actively participate in all related activities where parent involvements are needed.

METHODS

The descriptive method of research was utilized and research-made questionnaire as the main tool in data gathering to parent-respondents in Ticalan Elementary School. Random sampling using the fishbowl technique was used. In each grade level, there were five parent-respondents. The weighted mean and rank were the statistical tools applied in the study.

RESULTS

Parent-respondents see roadblocks to getting involved in school activities. Majority of the parent-respondents could hardly participate in school due to lack of resources to help and they have no time to attend school activities.2. Most of the parents were busy with their work, with are low-income parents' and with transportation difficulties.3. Due to too far working station most of the parents need to leave their child under the custody of the grandparents who are too old and not in good health that hinders involvement in school that could not give their full support to school activities and have no extra time to volunteer.

DISCUSSIONS

The results parents and school staff members need time to get to know one another, plan how they will work together to increase children's learning and carry out their plans. Proposed strategies will be applied to reach out and build a strong partnership to encouraged parent’s participation in social and extension school activities and programs.