Benchmarking The Training Needs And Challenges Met By Parents In Facilitating A Literacy Instruction At Home Towards A Covid-19 Endemic And Beyond

Abstract

Parents as the first teacher at home remained a valid claim more so during the global health crisis. They play a salient role during the Covid-19 pandemic in managing the early childhood education via distance learning modality. Since the parents are not formally trained to carry out such teaching job, this is where the prospective issue arises. Hence, the current study evaluates a possible association between training needs and challenges met by these Filipino parents in facilitating the literacy instruction even beyond the pandemic. A descriptive correlation research design was employed. Using a convenience sampling, 170 parents within Cebu Province, Philippines were invited as respondents. To statistically treat the scaled-interval data, Likert scale, weighted mean, standard deviation and correlation coefficient have been employed. Scientific results show that most parents express a highly needed training relevant to teaching as they moderately met certain challenges while rendering the role of an alternate teacher. Findings revealed, nonetheless, that there is no significant correlation when both variables are inferred. Hence, there is enough evidence to conclude that these Filipino parents have the capacity to teach despite having no formal training in teaching. Evidence further shows that there is a need to expose these parents to seminar-workshops to address their incumbent struggles and to quip them comes a Covid-19 endemic or beyond it. Future undertaking may focus on teaching competency-based training for the parents.