The document discusses school-community partnerships, providing examples of how schools and communities can support each other. It explains that partnerships imply mutual benefit, with communities able to support schools through programs like school maintenance, curriculum development using community resources, and youth development programs. Schools can in turn allow communities to use school facilities for meetings, celebrations, and skills training. The sociological and legal bases for partnerships are also outlined, emphasizing how communities and schools must work together to educate youth.
The document discusses school-community partnerships, providing examples of how schools and communities can support each other. It explains that partnerships imply mutual benefit, with communities able to support schools through programs like school maintenance, curriculum development using community resources, and youth development programs. Schools can in turn allow communities to use school facilities for meetings, celebrations, and skills training. The sociological and legal bases for partnerships are also outlined, emphasizing how communities and schools must work together to educate youth.
The document discusses school-community partnerships, providing examples of how schools and communities can support each other. It explains that partnerships imply mutual benefit, with communities able to support schools through programs like school maintenance, curriculum development using community resources, and youth development programs. Schools can in turn allow communities to use school facilities for meetings, celebrations, and skills training. The sociological and legal bases for partnerships are also outlined, emphasizing how communities and schools must work together to educate youth.
HOW OF SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES: 2
• Explain what school and community
partnership means. • Explain the legal and sociological bases of school and community partnership. • Examples of school-community partnerships. 3 OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP Partnership implies two parties helping each parties benefit. other Both means that if a . community This school- partnership exists, both benefit parties from the relationship. 5 WHAT CAN THE COMMUNITY DO FOR SCHOOLS? Here are examples of what a community can do for schools:
1.) Brigada Eskwela- This
program engages all education stakeholders to contribute to their time, effort and resources in ensuring that public school facilities are set in time for the forthcoming school opening. This is a school maintenance program that has been institutionalized since 2009 when DepEd issued WHAT CAN THE COMMUNITY DO FOR SCHOOLS? Here are examples of what a community can do for schools:
2.) Curriculum Development-
This can mean use of community resources for learning. Example: Museum, elders of the community as key informants in research or resource persons in the study of local history. WHAT CAN THE COMMUNITY DO FOR SCHOOLS? Here are examples of what a community can do for schools:
3.) Work experience programs-
Business establishments and offices in the community can serve as training ground for learners. Example: Work Immersion required for Senior High School students. Some schools call this as “service training” WHAT CAN THE COMMUNITY DO FOR SCHOOLS? Here are examples of what a community can do for schools:
4.) Remediation and
enrichment classes- Parents and teachers may be retired in involved the School Readin g remediation and Learning Enrichment Programs. WHAT CAN THE COMMUNITY DO FOR SCHOOLS? Here are examples of what a community can do for schools:
5.) Youth Development
Programs- The young involve may in development themselves youth develop their programs skills and learn how and talents, with peers positively deal to and adults and as resources in the communities. WHAT CAN THE COMMUNITY DO FOR SCHOOLS? Here are examples of what a community can do for schools:
6.) Community Service-
Examples of community service are students participating in tutorial programs, community reforestation programs, clean up drive for a river, assisting in medical mission; school head involved in planning local celebrations, teachers managing programs, projects, activities; school band playing in fiesta parade. WHAT CAN SCHOOLS DO FOR COMMUNITIES IN RETURN? Schools may allow the community to use school resources. Here are concrete examples by the DepEd Primer on School-Community Partnership:
C l a s s r o o m used by community organizations o
fr meetings. School used as a polling place and venue o fr medical mission which it may co-sponsor with the Rural Health Unit. WHAT CAN SCHOOLS DO FOR COMMUNITIES IN RETURN? Schools may allow the community to use school resources. Here are concrete examples by the DepEd Primer on School-Community Partnership:
School facilities used for community
assemblies. School basketball court used for Local celebrations and barangay sports league. School conduct livelihood skills-training LEARNING FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY EXAMPLE: PARTNER S ST. MARY’S COLLEGE QUEZON CITY LEARNING FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY EXAMPLE: PARTNER S ST. MARY’S COLLEGE QUEZON CITY SOCIOLOGICAL BASIS OF SCHOOL- COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP? • The functionalist theory states that institutions must perform their respective functions for the stability of society. Other institutions must come in, if one institution fails to do the part for the sake of society. • The school cannot do it all, “It takes a village to educate a child”, It has to work in partnership with other institutions in the community such as the church, government organizations and non-government organizations. With the breakdown of families, schools face greater challenge in educating the young. SOCIOLOGICAL BASIS OF SCHOOL- COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP? • The school, the church and other social institutions come in to assist parents and families to fulfill their irreplaceable obligation. • The negative effect of uncontrolled and unregulated use of technology on the young. While the use of technology has brought a lot of convenience of its uncontrolled and unregulated use by tech-savvy kids expose these kids to all sort of information not necessarily favorable for their LEGAL BASES FOR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT • RA 9115,Governance of Basic Education Act, Section E (10) explicitly that one of the responsibilities of school heads is “establishing school and community networks and encouraging the active participation of teachers organizations, non-academic personnel of public schools, and parent-teacher-community associations.” • Section 3 (f) of the same act encourages “local initiatives for the improvements of school and learning centers and to provide by means which improvements may be achieved and sustained.” LEGAL BASES FOR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT • Batas Pambansa Blg. 232, also known as the Education Act of 1982, Section 7. • Another law, RA. 8525, Adopt A-School Program Act, also provides for school-community partnership. It allows “private entities to assist a public school, whether elementary, secondary or tertiary in, but not limited to the following areas: staff and faculty development for training and further education; construction of facilities, provision of books, publication and other instructional materials; and modernization of instructional technologies.” LEGAL BASES FOR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT • RA 9155, states that partnership between school and community also ensures that: 1) Educational programs, projects and services take into account the interests of all members of the community (Sec 3, d); 2) The school and learning centers reflects the values of the community by allowing teachers/learning facilitators and other staff to have the flexibility to serve the needs of all learners (Sec 3, e); and LEGAL BASES FOR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 3) Local initiatives for the improvement of school and learning centers are encouraged and the means which these improvements may be by achieved are provided (Sec 3, f). sustained and • So schools and communities function better when they work as a team. 22 23