Follow-through activities of parents and the academic performance of grade one learners-basis for an advocacy program.

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Rivera ( Genilyn )
 
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Learning is continuous. In school, teachers provide direction. Outside the school the parents consciously or unconsciously direct the learning. This study aimed to determine the significant relationship between the follow-through activities and academic performance of the learners. It may be of great value to have parents involved in our students' learning, for instance when both the family and the teacher are focusing on the learner, there is strengthening of motivation towards the student. Parental involvement is of great importance. It will ensure the improvement of the children's learning. At home, parents can monitor their children of what their children have studied at school and whether or not their children have understood subjects learned. Majority of the respondents who were able to finish high school only (42%), followed by vocational school (28%), bachelor's degree (26%), undergrad in high school (5%), undergrad in elementary (3%), finished elementary (2%) and no one reached the master's degree. It shows that from the different social media being used today by the parents, Facebook (93) has the most number of users and the finding was agreed upon by the teachers when the researcher conducted a focus group discussion. Wikipedia has the least number of users as their follow-through activities at home. And Facebook is still the most common social media used by the parents as their follow-through activities at home. The findings correlate with the fact that almost all respondents were using textbooks (57) which are available all the time as their reference materials. Both the learners and the parents depend on the availability of the materials. This was also agreed by the teachers in the Focus Group discussion done by the researcher. Parents tutor their children at home has the most number of responses 01) followed by using their siblings. It showed that the parents are more convenient on hands on as their follow-through activity of their children's dy. According to the teachers who were interviewed by the researcher tutoring is the easiest way for the parents to help improve the study skills of their children. In flexible learning modalities in which teaching concepts any time is rank 1 with a frequency of 35. It simply implies that the follow-though activities may take time as the need arises by the learners because the child's drive to learn is strong and urgent. Reinforcement is one of the follow-through activities at home in which doing their homework/ assignment has the most number of responses (87) Parents and the learners prefer to do their homework/assignments regularly as their follow-through activities at home. This also coincided with the teachers' responses during the said interview. It can be clearly seen that the academic performance of the learners in the second grading slightly increased or there was an increment of mean of 0.73, after the constant implementation of the follow-through activities at home which greatly affect the academic performance of the learners and so this aspect was also considered as one of the variable. Meanwhile, there is a significant relationship between the follow- through activities and the academic performance of the learners. The findings indicated that constant follow-through activities done by parents at home would be of great help for the performance of the pupils. Lack of available time to conduct follow-through ranked 1 with a frequency of 34. This findings was also concurred by the teacher respondents through focus group discussion. This implies that one of the greatest factors that may cause to stop doing the follow-through activities at home is lack of time with parents. Learner's profile such as highest educational attainment of parents and academic performance has a significant relationship in parental involvement received by learners: A collaborative activity was proposed by the researcher and it was entitled "Advocacy Program to Enhance Teacher-Parent Partnership". Based on the findings and conclusions presented, the researcher recommended the following: 1) Learners should have follow-through activities at home so that they can cultivate good study habits and better academic performance 2) Parents must spend time with their children. Their children need attention and interaction from their parents specially in conducting follow- through activities at home 3) Parents should continue to collaborate with the school to provide support and guidance for their child. Parents and teachers should have good communication to know the performance of the child inside and outside the school. 4) Opportunities should be given to the parents for orientation or training sessions to acquaint them with the most effective strategies in conducting follow-though activities at home. 5) Formulate a program that will help to establish strong parent-school partnership and will make parents more involve in the academic performance of the learners.
 
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