MODULE 6

THE SCHOOL
AND
COMMUNITY
LINKAGES
SESSION 1: COMMUNITY AS A RESOURCE IN THE TEACHING -
LEARNING PROCESS

My Personal Professional Improvement Plan

Activities and Assessment

What are the available resources in your community and how can they facilitate the teaching-learning process?
You may ask the help of your school head or your colleagues in data gathering or you can conduct field trip in
your community.

Types of Resources What can it offer? How can it facilitate the

teaching-learning process?
Human Manpower They support the programs of the
1. PTA Donations, school by making actions and
2. LGU Officials Security, active cooperation.
3. Field Experts Resource persons
Physical Photocopies, They provide the physical needs
1. Machines Visual aids, of pupils and teachers in the
2. Libraries Resources, school.
3. Clinic Medicines

After completing the activity, how do you feel? Are you motivated and inspired because you have a deeper
understanding of your community? YES.

For the next activity, read the situation below and answer the questions that follow:

Ms. Ramos is a newly hired teacher assigned in a school 15 kilometers away from the Poblacion. Upon
reaching the school she found out there is nothing left in the room where she will handle the Grade 5 class.
The room is bare with only 35 tablet chairs for the learners fill in the room. There is no bulletin board, teacher’s
table and chair, and even comfort room. How down-hearted she felt seeing the situation in her class. Her
school head told her that since her class is newly organized, she must deal with the situation and that
challenged her to do something about it because the school MOOE is meager and is only enough to pay for
electric and water bill and other priority needs of the school. It would take a year before a budget could be
allotted for the improvement of her classroom. The school even told her to “make some miracles” to improve
the physical condition of her class.
Ms. Ramos contemplated on it. For quite sometimes she reflected on her school head’s words. She
approached one of her colleagues whose classroom is well-structured and fully equipped with the necessary
materials for teaching-learning activities.
She then started organizing her homeroom PTA and showed them the situation in their classroom. She also
talked to her friends and some relatives abroad. And in just 2 months she was able to make miracles!

Answer the question below

1. Why was Ms. Ramos discouraged and downhearted in her new assignment?
She was discouraged because her classroom is bare and is not conducive to teaching-learning activities; and
the school could not give her the resources she needs due to limited budget.

2. What gave her the idea to “make miracles” in her classroom?

The advice coming from her co-teacher gave her the idea to partner with the community members, particularly
the organized homeroom PTA. Her friends and family also extended partnering with her.

3. What strategy did she employ?

Collaboration and partnership. She was able to work with the PTA. Together they planned and implemented
the plan successfully.

4. If you will be in a situation like that of Ms. Ramos, would you do the same? Why?
Yes. In today’s context educating our learners is a shared responsibility. It is a responsibility of the parents, the
school, and the community through partnership. Partnership brings about quality learners.
THE SCHOOL AS A LABORATORY FOR LEARNING
Sta. Isabel Integrated School is one of the farthest schools in a certain town. It offers Kindergarten,
Elementary, Junior and Senior High School.
Mr. Santos, the school principal and his teachers have been stormed with a lot of challenges concerning the
needs of the school. One of his most pressing problems is the unavailability of materials, facilities and
equipment for the learners. There are no rooms for laboratory work and the school has no budget for the
procurement of the materials and building laboratory rooms.

Mr. Santos met his teachers and made initial plans. They scanned the community and found out that there are
establishments within the community where their learners could apply their skills. She scheduled a dialogue
with the barangay officials, parents and the owners of the different establishments and together they planned.
To prepare their learners and provide them lifelong learning, the school heads, teachers, parents, barangay
officials and local businesspeople made a program in which the learners will enhance their skills in the different
areas. During weekend, the learners could practice in the machine shop and bakery located within the
barangay. The learners were also given an allowance by the store owners for their services. Students who
enrolled in the agriculture strand works in the agricultural store and study the different varieties of seeds, feeds,
process of planting and other activities related to agriculture. They also get part time job during planting and
harvest season. The learners are also compensated.
In this way both the school and community were benefitted. The school prepares its curriculum in a way that it
responds to the needs of the community. The community, on the other hand; provides laboratory for learning
for learners.

1. What challenges do the school principal and the teachers face?

No provision for facilities, equipment and classroom laboratory for Senior High School TVL learners

2. What was the action of the school principal?

The school principal together with the SHS teachers conducted environmental scanning. They presented the
problem to the local officials, parents and business community.

3. How did the school community members arrest the problems?

They prepared a plan and came up with immersion. The community served as laboratory for learning.

4. How did the community serve as a laboratory for learning?

Students applied the competencies they learned in school in the different establishments aligned with their
specialization.

Reflection
Ask a colleague who is capable of coaching and mentoring you on how to improve your teaching-learning
process using the resources in your community. Be guided with the form below.

What are the resources How will it be utilized in When will this be Evidence of Outcome
in the community? the teaching and learning utilized?
process?
Human They support the Feeding Program, Manpower
1. PTA programs of the school Teacher’s Day, Donations,
2. LGU Officials by making actions and Fiesta, Security,
3. Field Experts active cooperation. Christmas Party, Resource persons
And other School
Programs
Brigada Eskwela,

Physical They provide the Photocopies,

1. Machines physical needs of pupils During school days. Visual aids,
2. Libraries and teachers in the Resources,
3. Clinic school. Medicines
SESSION 2: THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY LINKAGES

Activities and Assessment

Case Analysis No. 1

The barangay chairman in the community where your school is located comes to your school and requested
you to render a song in the annual barangay day celebration. It so happened that you are not very good in
singing. How will you respond to the request of the barangay chairman?
I am not good in singing and I don’t want to create a scene, what will I do is I will find a colleague that is good
in singing and ask her if she can do a special number in the barangay day celebration.

Case Analysis No. 2

Mr. Gregorio L. Ocampo, the father of Walter who is one of your learners, visited your school at 6:30 in the
morning and was angry about what happened to his child the other day. According to Mr. Ocampo, his son
went home with a bruise on his arm due to quarrel with one of his classmates during your class period. How
would you react to the angry parent?
I will give him a sheet of paper and a pen. I will request him to write every detail that happened to his son. In
this way, he could express his anger in writing. After he wrote everything, I’m pretty sure he’s calm to talk with
me.

Case Analysis No. 3

You were assigned to teach Computer Literacy in your new school. Though you know basic information about
computer, you are fully aware that your knowledge about it is still limited. You came to know that one of your
parents in school is an ICT coordinator in the school division. How will you approach the parent? You know
that there are documents to accomplish as you respond to the situation, what will you do as a beginning
teacher?
I will ask for help to her in a respectful manner since she was the ICT coordinator. I know that she would
understand that I need more background on accomplishing forms because I am only a beginning teacher.

Case Analysis No. 4

You came to a remote school without a gate and even a fence that would help secure the children in the
school. How would you start accomplishing the project? Who are the people you need to approach in doing
so? Why?
I will approach the barangay officials, because they should also contribute for the safety of their community
especially the pupils.

Reflection
After the first part of the lesson, work in partnership with your school head and ask how you will respond to the
following situations.
1. A mother came in and hit the child who was seated beside her daughter while you were in front of the class
teaching, what will you do? I will ask her to come with me outside the classroom. I will talk to her calmly that
what she did to my pupil is not good.

2. A group of parents organized themselves and bought a very big television for your classroom without your
knowledge. How will you respond to the situation? I will thank them for their effort and I will tell them that their
donation will become school property and next time they should tell their plans to me before they make actions.

3. Being an agent of change—though a beginning teacher—you believe that you can contribute in the success
of the school’s programs and projects, how will you do it? I will cooperate and participate in all school activities
and program to show my dedication in this profession.

4. You are very good in organizing events but in your school’s activities, it is always the parents who organize
programs. You want to share in the success of the activities. What could you do? I will ask them in what way
can I help them to show that I am interested to help them in organizing the event.
SESSION 3: PARENTS AS TEACHER’S PARTNERS IN
STUDENTS’LEARNING AND AS STAKEHOLDER OF THE SCHOOL

Activities and Assessment

Reflect on your previous engagements/interactions with the parents/guardians and wider community in your
school’s programs, projects and activities. Write down on the space provided below, at least five ways on how
you were able to establish partnership with the parents/ guardians or wider community.
1. Let go of judgments and preconceptions about families. Make them your allies. Respect them and stay
focused on helping their child.

2. Set an inviting tone during the beginning of the school year. Make contact with families to introduce yourself
if they have not tried to meet you on their own accord. Share how important their contributions are and your
desire to partner with them over the year! Focus on building good rapport before any problems crop up. This
way, the family isn’t meeting you for the first time when you have negative news about their child’s
performance.

3. Disseminate information to all families about how to create positive learning environments at home.
Scheduling homework times, limiting television, creating a homework space, and a plan for checking
homework are examples of things you can help parents learn about. You are the educational expert!

4. Contact the family at the first sign of concern, this shows you care and respect their contribution.

5. Partnerships work when they are sustained. The frequency of communication should depend on the child’s
needs, but it is ideal to make personal contact with all families. Make a plan for checking in if necessary. Email,
mass email, newsletters, phone calls, and meetings are all effective ways to check in.

Work on this activity with a partner teacher (maybe a Master Teacher or Teacher III) who is already staying in
the same school for a long time. Evaluate each situation and determine if the described behavior of a teacher
manifests partnership. Show a thumbs up to your partner if you think the situation stated below manifests
partnership and a thumbs down if you think it is not.
THUMBS UP 1. Mrs Lopez, a Grade 4, teacher conducted a meeting with her high school classmates and
presented her project proposal on coming up with a LCD projector and a laptop for instructional purposes.
THUMBS DOWN 2. Mr. Aguas wanted to donate a water dispenser to the Grade I class of Ms. Noble. He
sent letter to the teacher informing her of his intention but Ms. Noble just ignored the letter.
THUMBS UP 3. It has been Mr. Antonio’s dream to organize a drum and lyre group for the learners in his
school. Mr. Antonio asked permission from his principal to source fund from his relatives and friends in which
the principal allowed. After a year, Mr. Antonio was able to organize the drum and lyre group with complete
instruments.
THUMBS DOWN 4. A foundation of widows from the community but living in the US is coming up with a
project of providing all learners in the school complete set of school supplies. The principal, Mrs. Cabrera
required the attendance of all teachers in MOA signing at the principal’s office. It is also a way of forging
stronger partnership with the community. Mr. Datul did not attend the said activity saying it’s just a waste of
time.
THUMBS UP 5. Mr. de Guzman is handling TLE class specializing in machining. The school has no
available equipment for the learners to use. Mr. de Guzman coordinated with the owner of a machine shop in
the locality. He allowed the use of his machine shop between 4:00-5:00 in the afternoon and three times a
week only.

Reflection
“How will I develop my interpersonal skill so that I continue dealing with and getting support from the PTA?”

 “Working together for a common benefit”. This must be the mindset of every teacher in terms of
Parents-Teachers Association. It will benefit both parent and teachers for achieving goals to
students.
SESSION 4: STRENTHEN ND SUSTAIN GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH
THE PARENTS / GUARDIANS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY

Activities and Assessment

SCRAMBLED LETTERS
MIFALY LAD FAMILY DAY
COGREBOITNI AYD RECOGNITION DAY
MASTSIRCH YAD CHRISTMAS DAY
TIONDUAGRAD YAD GRADUATION DAY
RENTPA HERTEAC RENCECONFE PARENT TEACHER ONFERENCE
GADABRI WELAESK BRIGADA ESKWELA

Reflection
What are my potentials that would enhance strong partnership and good relationships with the
parents/ guardians and the wider community?

 I think being friendly and humble is my asset in dealing with strong partnership with parents/guardians
and wider community.
 SESSION 5: BUILDING PARTNERSHIP AND ESTABLISHING
LINKAGES

Activities and Assessment

Case Analysis No. 1 From the training on Developing 21st Century Learners, you realized the need of an
LCD Projector which is a non-eligible expenditure in the School MOOE in your classroom instruction. Your
Homeroom PTA could not afford to purchase such. What steps will you take to address the problem?

Having fund or budget for school learning materials is really a big issue. What I can do as a teacher is to find
donors for the said project.

Case Analysis No. 2 You are designated as one of the members on the Committee on Resource Generation
during BrigadaEskwela. What concrete steps will you take to get the support of the private organizations in
your community?

Helping the community is a great chance, opportunity as well as responsibility. I can be a role model in doing
such activities. Encourage the community to participate. Create projects that are useful for everybody.

Case Analysis No. 3 You are a newly-hired teacher who is tasked by your School Principal to persuade a
potential benefactor from the private sector to adopt your school through the Adopt-A-School Program of
DepEd. What actions will you take to convince the said benefactor?

Everything can be possible with good communication. Always remember to humble thyself in talking with
anyone.

Reflection

Complete the following to show what you have learned on this session.

1. The stakeholders who could help achieve the school goals and objectives are
responsible and supportive type of school partners.

2. It is important to foster good working relationship with the community because

The community plays a vital and important role in a school.

3. The school can foster effective and sustainable partnership with the community by Engaging the community
with the schools project, by having a good communication with different concerns and matters, by respecting
each strengths and weaknesses.