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Family School Partnership: A Cohesive Perception of Teachers and Parents
Abstract
For the overall development of students, role of family and school is noteworthy which helps them to cover all milestones in their journey of success in education and learning. The core of the survey was to investigate perceptions of teachers and parents concerning family school partnership for which overall 120 teachers and 300 parents of female students of 10th class enrolled in girls’ secondary schools of district Multan were selected by multistage sampling and further convenient sampling procedure. To expose the perceptions of teachers and parents, two different Likert type scales were administered separately in which for parents a translated version was administered. A descriptive analysis under Percentage and Mean score was conducted which exposed that Mean score of majority of items based on teachers’ perception was above average and average which indicates teachers’ strong agreement for the items that they are agreed upon need of a strong FSP in schools for enhanced level of success of students and parents’ cooperation is always welcomed in this regard. Parents also agreed that family school partnership is common responsibility. They showed consensus over having frequent meetings with teachers to discuss problems of their children. They also emphasized the need of establishing a collaborative and shared work environment for FSP in schools. Schools should recognize efforts made by teachers for successful partnership by involving parents and community. Teachers and parents should be trained for effective management of partnership practices
Authors
Dr. Farah Deeba
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Haji Karim Khan
University of Baltistan, Skardu, Gilgit- Baltistan, Pakistan
Amna Saleem
Lecturer, Department of Education, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Descriptive Analysis, Family School Partnership, Secondary Schools
