Parents’ Involvement During the New Normal Education: Empowerment or Not?

Mia Gail B. Samaniego

Parental participation is an important tool for achieving academic achievement. Parental engagement has many positive impacts on students other than learning, including improved enthusiasm, self-esteem, and self-reliance, which can contribute to academic achievement regardless of the economic context. Inadequate or no parental participation leads to a poor degree of student success and participation. Essentially, parents, siblings, and other important relatives may build rich learning opportunities to improve children's academic growth.

The need for appropriate instruction, methods, and approaches to include parents in school is critical and should be a priority for every administrator. If public school administrators expect parents to take on more responsibilities, schools need to take constructive steps to seek ways to eliminate obstacles to parental engagement. Parents are an important asset in enhancing student performance and should be provided with the resources required to be involved in their children's schools.

Parents' fundamental responsibility is to ensure the health and welfare of the child. For example, parenting, child-rearing, constant monitoring, supervision, and instruction at each age level, and providing healthy home environments that promote learning and actions.

The primary responsibility of schools is to connect with parents and facilitate, track, and support their children in their assignments or learning events.

Parental participation is aligned with certain school systems, such as involvement, which involves attending parent-teacher conferences, contributing to extracurricular events, tracking the student performance, promoting parental principles, assisting with homework, and offering in-depth and extrinsic encouragement.

W hen parents engage in their children's classrooms, student motivation and success improve. The engagement of students in learning, competence, and understanding the subject matter, enhances, and encourages academic achievement.

Schools can build positive resources for parents to invest in their children's schooling, thus improving student performance around the school. Teachers should take a constructive perspective on the need and value of parental engagement. Schools can also develop parent engagement systems that concentrate on parental interest in academic experiences with children at home, helping with homework and tracking and promoting children's learning activities.

The author is Teacher

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III at San Manuel Elementary School, Tarlac City