THE TEACHER AS A

VITAL LINK BETWEEN

THE SCHOOL AND
COMMUNITY
 INTENDED LEARNING
OUTCOME (ILO):
 Create meaningful and collaborative
relationships of quality and endurance
with the community
THE NEED FOR TEACHERS TO
ESTABLISH A CLOSE EFFECTIVE
COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIP
 The teacher is the most vital link between the school
and the community in motivating the learners to become
concerned of what is going on in the community where they
belong. Later, it will be a commendable accomplishment on the
part of the teacher if the students can go beyond the
community they serve in order to reach out to others.

A meaningful and collaborative relationship between

the teacher and the community can offset some of the
problems in the school especially when the parents are very
supportive of helping the teachers in their efforts to bring out
the best in their children.
 As a pre-service teacher, if in the future you are confronted
with challenging tasks such as planning, decision-making, and
problem-solving in and out of the classroom, will you consider
consulting with your friends and the people in your community? Or
if in the future, you encounter a problem that remains unsolved
despite your best efforts, will you enlist the community’s help so
that they can more or less extend their helping hand especially
when it is a matter of helping the learner?

There is no denying that seeking help from the community

in few instances may help. With this belief in mind, we put in this
chapter, the teacher and the community, in a better and meaningful
collaborative relationship.
 Why must teachers, get in touch with the
community in a more interactive and collaborative way?
Teachers have to, for the prime reason that it is their task
to relate to human beings and as the old adage goes, “no
man is an island”. Furthermore, problems related to work
behavior, unmotivated students and the need to improve
school resources, among others, necessitate group
solutions.
 CODE OF ETHICS FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS
ARTICLE III – THE TEACHER AND THE COMMUNITY

Sec 1: A teacher is a facilitator of learning and development of the

youth, he shall, therefore, render the best service by providing an
environment conducive to such learning and growth.
Sec 2: Every teacher shall provide leadership and initiative to
actively participate in community movements for moral, social,
educational, economic, and civic betterment.
Sec 3: Every teacher shall merit reasonable social recognition for
which purpose he shall behave with honor and dignity at all times and
refrain from such activities as gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and
other excesses, much less elicit relations.
Sec 4: Every teacher shall live for and with the community and,
shall therefore, refrain from disparaging the community.
Sec 5: Every teacher shall help the school keep the people in the
community informed about the school’s work and accomplishments
as will as its needs and problems.
Sec 6: Every teacher is an intellectual leader in the community
especially n the barangay, and shall welcome the opportunity to
provide such leadership, when needed, to extend counselling
services, as appropriate, and to actively be involved in matters
affecting the welfare of the people.
Sec 7: Every teacher shall maintain harmonious and pleasant
personal and official relations with other professionals, with
government officials, and with the people, individual or collectively.
Sec 8: A teacher shall possess freedom to attend church and
worships, as appropriate, but shall not use his positions and
influence to proselyte others.
 The foregoing guide for teachers as regards “The Teacher and the
Community motivated the author to conceive the acronym LINK to
capture the message of Article III. The teacher should be the effective
and enduring LINK between the school and the community.
 The Teacher as the LINK:
L - IGHT

I - MPETUS

N - EWS

K - EY
 LIGHT = the teacher should provide the driving force to look into
the “dark space” in the community which may be in form of non-
commitment and indifference, the parents to get involved in the
school activities of their son/daughter in school. The teacher is
challenged to enlighten the path of parents to be one with the
school.

 IMPETUS = there is a need for every teacher to be the impetus or

the prime mover to take the initiative for parents to commit
themselves in their involvement to the Parent-Teacher
Association or PTA. No other individual should place more
emphasis on PTA than that of the teacher when a smooth
interpersonal between him or her and the parents are to be
established.
 NEWS = the PTA is a fertile ground for the school and parent’s
communication. It is in this regard that the teacher must be good
news to the parents that the school cares. This can be facilitated
during PTA meetings when the meeting of minds and heart to heart
talks transpire among the administrators, faculty, and parents or
guardians. Parents should be encouraged to make their presence felt
via consistent attendance to PTA meetings.

 KEY = if the school wants to prevent any adversarial

relationship with the community, then it must develop the potential
of its faculty in the areas of interconnection and establishments of
linkages with the community. In so doing, the teacher will serve as
the key that will unlock the reassures in the parents’ active
involvement in the school’s varied activities to develop holistically
 LIGHT = the teacher should provide the driving force to look into
the “dark space” in the community which may be in form of non-
commitment and indifference, the parents to get involved in the
school activities of their son/daughter in school. The teacher is
challenged to enlighten the path of parents to be one with the
school.

 IMPETUS = there is a need for every teacher to be the impetus or

the prime mover to take the initiative for parents to commit
themselves in their involvement to the Parent-Teacher
Association or PTA. No other individual should place more
emphasis on PTA than that of the teacher when a smooth
interpersonal between him or her and the parents are to be
established.
Figure 6.1 shows the challenge to every teacher to be and enduring
LINK between the school and the community

Light
An effective
Impetus and Meaningful
Teacher
News School and
Community
Key Collaboration

Source: E.D.Serrano(2015)

Figure 6.1 The teacher and the Community

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