Chap 6

• Teacher


  The most vital link between the school and the community in motivating the learners to become concerned of what is going on in the community where they belong
• A meaningful and collaborative relationship between the teacher and the community can offset some of the problems in the school especially when the parents are very supportive of helping the teachers in their efforts to bring out the best in their children
• As a pre-service teacher, if in the future you are confronted with challenging tasks such as planning, decision-making, and problem-solving in and out of the classroom


  You will consider consulting with your friends and the people in your community
• If in the future, you encounter a problem that remains unsolved despite your best efforts

  You will enlist the community's help so that they can more or less extend their helping hand especially when it is a matter of helping the learner
• Seeking help from the community in few instances may help
• Teachers have to get in touch with the community in a more interactive and collaborative way for the prime reason that it is their task to relate to human beings and as the old adage goes, no man is an island
• Problems related to work behavior, unmotivated students, and the need to improve school resources, among others, necessitate group solutions
• LINK

  L stands for light, I for impetus, N for news, and K for key
• The Light


  • The teacher should provide the driving force to look into the "dark spots" in the community which may be in the form of non-commitment and the parents to get involved in the school activities of their son/daughter in school
  • The teacher is challenged to enlighten the path of parents to be one with the school
• The Impetus


  • There is a need for every teacher to be the impetus or the prime mover to take the initiative for parents to commit themselves in their involvement to the Parent-Teacher Association or PTA
  • No other individual should place more emphasis on PTA than that of the teacher when a smooth interpersonal between him or her and the parents are to be established
• The News


  • The PTA is a fertile ground for the school and parent's communication
  • It is in this regard that the teacher must be good news to the parents that the school cares
  • This can be facilitated during PTA meetings when the meeting of minds and heart to heart talks transpire among the administrators, faculty, and parents or guardians
  • Parents should be encouraged to make their presence felt via consistent attendance to PTA meetings
• The Key


  • If the school wants to prevent any adversarial relationship with the community, then it must develop the potential of its faculty in the areas of interconnections and establishments of linkages with the community
  • In so doing, the teacher will serve as the key that will unlock the treasures in the parents' active involvement in the school's varied activities to develop holistically the learners