Parents’ Agreements to Actions That Can Be Taken by the School for the Intervention of Parents Towards the Teaching-Learning Process of Adolescent Students in the School

Abstract

Parents have a special place for the people who teach students. Support given by the parents is a must for a successful teaching- learning process. Both the school and parents are highly important for students who are getting ready to face the General Certificate of Education (Ordinal Level) exam step by step. Teachers, students, parents and all the others involve in the field of education will find this study is important. As the objectives of this study, identifying the agreements of parents to actions taken by the school to intervene parents in to Teaching-Learning process, identification of agreements which are approved by majority of parents and managing and ranking those agreements can be mentioned. A Survey has been used for this study and the sample includes 60 students who are studying in grade 10 and 11 classes of the only 1AB school of Mawathagama Educational Division and Sixty parents either mother or father of 15 boys and 15 girls of both 10A and 11A. Purposive sampling has been used to select the parents. Questionnaires were used and preparation of questionnaires and data analysis were done based on actions that can be used to get parents’ support to school introduce by Allen, Epstein and others. Quantitative and qualitative data has been analyzed. Majority of the parents have agreed to hold programs and functions toassess parents that assist the school. Minority of parents have which parents for different school functions in which they can assist in health activities of family. Generally it can be concluded that parents show less interest to spend lot of time in the school for intervention inside the school premises.