Role of Parents in the New Normal Education

ZOHAR D. TALLADA

Research shows that when parents are involved in their children’s education, children are more engaged with their school work, stay in school longer, and achieve better learning outcomes. This also translates into longer-term economic and social benefits according to the global partnership organization.

In the New Normal education, parents had a bigger responsibility because of the pandemic. Based on Kerry-Jane Packman’s article (2020), most parents have had no choice but to become more involved than ever before in their child’s learning in this new set-up. Schools were ordered to close in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19.

The pandemic saw many parents juggling careers with simultaneously monitoring their child’s learning from home. If any thing good came out of those long months of disruption, it’s that both teachers and parents had the opportunity to appreciate more fully the importance of a strong home/ school partnership built on trust. But the increase in parental involvement in children’s learning ought to give them proportionally more of a say in decisions that directly affect them.

As a parent, I also am not excused to these challenges brought to us by the pandemic, we had no choice but to embrace the change whether good or bad, after all there are still a lot to be thankful for and one is the opportunity to become a parent and to be able to experience different trials along with it.

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The author is Teacher at Malino National High School