MAXIMIZING PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN MONITORING STUDENTS’

PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL

Submitted to
The Division Research Committee
Schools Division of Meycauayan

Submitted by
MARY JENNIFER RAMOS
MASTER TEACHER
PANDAYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Introduction and Rationale
“It takes a village to educate a child “. This is now the common African proverbs used by

the educators in inviting and convincing stakeholders most specifically the parents to truly

involve in school activities that will directly affect the school performance of their children.

Gone are the days when the education of the learners is all in the hands of their teachers. Parents

especially has their part in molding the education of their children.

Parents (or caregivers) are the first educators of their children. The support they provide

affects children’s development, learning, and subsequent educational outcomes. This includes

direct support to learning before and during formal education, as well as indirect facilitating of

factors such as nutrition, health, and hygiene. Support tasks range from school and home

communication, assistance in learning activities at home, participation in school events, and

participation in school-decision-making bodies (learningportal, 2019). This article clearly defines

the great role of the parents as partners of teachers in developing the total education of the

learners.

Specially nowadays where the teaching and learning deliveries were transferred from

school situation to home situations. Parents are the direct monitors on how their children read

and answered their Self Learning Modules, attends to online discussion of their teachers, and

other activities where learners need an assistance and guidance now that their teachers are not

directly teaching them because of the pandemic.

Since the pandemic started, parents are now taking on a more support-oriented role by

supporting their children as they take on assignments and home projects. Due to the COVID-19

pandemic, and the subsequent closure of schools, it became apparent that parents had to assume

the full-time role of educating their children and support their learning virtually. In our online
survey, we asked whether parents were helping their children learn during the pandemic and only

83% of the parents in our survey affirmed that they were actively helping their children learn

during the pandemic. When we asked parents not supporting their children why that was the

case, the majority reported that they did not know how to teach their children because they were

not teachers. Other reasons cited were that parents were too busy at the time or could not afford

the cost of supporting their child’s learning (Azubuike and Aina, 2020).

The researcher of this basic research is A Master Teacher of Pandayan Elementary School.

She wants to find out the relationship if parents will maximize their involvement in monitoring

learners’ performance in school.

Literature Review

An organization seeking to help children succeed through access to lifelong education, the

participation of parents in the educational process means that teachers and parents share the

responsibility to teach students and work together to achieve educational goals. To this end, the

organization suggests that teachers invite parents to regular school meetings and events and that

parents voluntarily commit to prioritizing these goals (Delgado, 2019). This article clearly states

the great role of parents in the education of their children.

When parents are engaged in their children’s school lives, students have the home support

and knowledge they need to not only finish their assignments, but also develop a lifelong love of

learning. Encouraging parent engagement is more than common courtesy. It’s one of the best

ways to create a positive learning environment for every student. To create a community built on

parent-teacher relationships in your school, find out what parent engagement is and how to

nurture it (Waterford, 2018).

 Parental involvement at home can include activities such as discussions about school,

helping with homework, and reading with children. Involvement at school may include parents

volunteering in the classroom, attending workshops, or attending school plays and sporting

events (educationstateuniversity, 2020).

Parents are responsible for every detail of their young children’s lives, from potty training

to eating fruits and veggies. When kids finally board the school bus for the first time, most moms

and dads breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, you can hand off some of that pressure to someone

else, knowing that a qualified teacher will make sure your child receives the education they need!

But the role of parents in education involves more than just getting your kids safely to and from

the bus stop. Research shows that parental involvement in education leads to greater student

success and increased confidence (Brooks, 2019).

Educators and parents play major roles in the educational success of students. Students

need a positive learning experience to succeed in school: one providing support, motivation, and

quality instruction. With the increasing demands on the family, parental support in the education

of students extends beyond the school building. Many families are faced with overwhelming and

unpredictable schedules and circumstances while juggling school, sports, family situations,

family time, work schedules, and other responsibilities, allowing minimal time to provide

support in any one given area (Đurišić and Bunijevac, 2017).

This family involvement is essential to students staying committed to their education - not

only through a school year, but through the entire course of schooling. Research backs that this is

true through any school district or education program (prodigygame, 2021).

 Teachers and principals often count on parents to help them create a positive learning

environment in their schools. The family-school partnership can take the form of parents

discussing education matters with their child, helping with homework, supervising their child’s

progress through education, communicating with school personnel, participating in decision

making, and being involved in school activities (oecdlibrary, 2018).

Parent involvement in education is crucial. No matter their income or background, students

with involved parents are more likely to have higher grades and test scores, attend school

regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school

(responsiveclassroom, 2018).

When schools, families, and community groups work together to support learning, children

tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more. Educators have difficult

jobs that are all too often thankless, but parent involvement helps ease their burden to some

degree. When parents get involved, they join forces with teachers to make a formidable

educational team characterized by mutual respect (Liftoff, 2015).

Countless studies have found that kids perform better in school when their parents are

involved with their schoolwork. Compared to students whose parents are uninvolved, kids with

involved parents get better grades and are thought more highly of by teachers. These effects

remain in the future, even if parents become less involved as the child ages (Thill, 2020).
Research Questions

1. What are the activities in school that parents can involve to help teachers and the learners?

2. What intervention program that the writer can propose to promote active participation of

the parents in school?

Scope and Limitations

This basic research will mainly focus in maximizing the participation of parents to school

related activities that can help improve the school performance of their children. This basic

research will be conducted in Pandayan Elementary School, SDO of Meycauayan. The

respondents of this action research are the parents of the Grade six learners enrolled in the said

school in school year 2023 – 2024.

Research Methodology

A. Sampling

Due to the small number of parents in Pandayan Elementary School, the universal

sampling method will be employed by the researcher. All the parents of the learners in Grade six

class will be respondents of this action research.

B. Data Collection

The writer of this basic research will prepare a researcher-made questionnaire for parents

in their participation in school activities that can help improve the performance of their children.

These questionnaires will be distributed to the respondent parents following the minimum health

protocols. Informal interviews will also be conducted to validate their responses. After the data
has been collected, it will be treated with appropriate statistical treatment so that proper

conclusions will be made.

C. Ethical Issues

All the data collected will be treated with strict confidentiality. It will be stored in a place

where no one can access them except the writer of this basic research.

D. Plan for Data Analysis

The following statistical treatment will be used to treat the data of this action research:

1. MEAN – This will be used to get the average of the responses of the parents.

2. Percentage – This will be used to get the percentage of parents who responded on the

questions on the questionnaire.

Timetable/Gantt Chart

Date Activities Persons Involved

Writing of the action research researcher

proposal manuscript

Submission and checking of Division Research Committee

the action research proposal

by the research committee

Revision and edition of the researcher

corrections and preparation of

 the questionnaire

Final Checking of the action Division Research Committee

Research manuscript and the

questionnaire

Distribution of the researcher, teacher-

questionnaire to the respondents

respondents

Data analysis and final researcher

writing of the manuscript

Submission of the final copy researcher, Division Research

of the action research to the Committee

Division Research Committee

DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
 Based on the result of the gathered data from the researcher-made questionnaire and also

in the gathered information in the Focus Group Discussion conducted, the researchers found out

that 85% of the respondents strongly agree that parents must maximized their participation in

school activities of their children. The intervention really helped the learners in their academic

performance.

In the academic performance of their children, 88% of the respondents strongly agree that

the academic performance of their children increased because the parents maximized their

participation in almost all school activities There was always an available mechanism where the

parents and teachers met to discuss certain areas where parents and their children can jointly

perform some school activities.

ACTION PLAN

ACTIVITIES TIME PERSON MOV

FRAME INVOLVE
Presentation of the results of School head, Research results,
maximizing the involvement of proponents, attendance,
parents in school activities to the Teachers pictures
parents and teachers of Pandayan ES
Discussion on challenges, problems School heads- Research results,
and other situations that needs proponents attendance,
adjustments for the school activities , pictures
where parents can actively involve. Teachers
Submission of the results of the proponents Completed
research to the division office action research
Monitoring and Evaluation Every quarter School head, Accomplishment
teachers report, pictures,
monitoring tools
Re-adjustment of the innovations, Every after the School head, Action plan
interventions and strategies M&E teachers
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