The School as a

Community
by: Sandrine E. Danay
 01
Introduction
WHAT IS
● SCHOOL
● COMMUNITY
● SCHOOL CULTURE
● SCHOOL-COMMUNITY
RELATIONSHIP
 How are School Communities
in a Community?
Members of the School Members of the Community

● Teacher ● LGU’s
● Students ● Non-government
● Administrators Agencies
● Non-teaching staff ● Civil Organizations
● Parents ● Residents
SCHOOL
An educational institution design to provide learning spaces and
environments for learners

COMMUNITY
A group of people living together in one place sharing of
common characteristics which link them all irrespective of
locality, interest, passion, needs occupation etc.

SCHOOL CULTURE
Refers to the beliefs, perceptions, relationships, attitudes,
written and unwritten rules that shape and influence every
aspect of how school functions.
Example:
 Practice (rites, rituals, and ceremonies)
 Communication (stories, legends, symbols, and slogans)
 Common language (phrases or jargon common to the school)
SCHOOL-COMMUNITY
RELATIONSHIP
Members of the school will be members of their local
community reflecting its beliefs and values conveyed through
the action, behavior, and attitudes of pupils, teaching and non-
teaching staff, parents and schools.

Example:
 Home Visiting
 Brigada Eskwela
 Work Experience Program
 Youth Development Programs
3 Possible patterns of connection between the
School and the Community

Closed Door Balanced Pattern

Pattern
It will waste energy without
the right guidance from the
parents and the community,
the school will be unaware
of changes occurring in
these systems
Open Door Pattern
The school and parents The school and parents set
operate as an open system the degree of closeness or
that designed to process distance between them in
inputs of its external order to achieve their
environments, only to return educational and social goals
the processed product to the to the optimal extent
environment for its use and
benefit
 The School as a
Learning Community
Learning Community

• a group of people who share a common interest and sense-

making approaches for building collaborative knowledge and
valued activities.
• In learning organization, members work together, mutually
understanding each other and respecting the diversity of one
another
 CHARACTERISTICS OF A
LEARNING COMMUNITY
BELONGIN
TRUST
G A major characteristics because it
Members need to feel that they
is instrumental to the emotional
belong in the community
strength of the learning group
INTERDEPENDEN SHARED
CE FAITH
The members of the community Part of belonging to a community is
need each other and feel needed believing in the community as a
by others whole, that the community should
exist and will be sufficient to meet
the members individual needs