Collaboration of the faculty association and the school administration : model for school partnership
/Lydia C. Cornelio
- 167 p. : color illustration 28cm. +1 CD-ROM (4¾inch)
Dissertation
College of Industrial Education
"The study was sought to determine the collaborative practices of the faculty association and the school administration in the twenty (20) elementary schools in the division of Las Pirias City. These exploratory sequential mixed methods aimed to propose a model for school partnership on collaboration. A survey questionnaire was conducted to solicit management practices on faculty association as elucidated from school actual faculty collaboration experiences. Responses were used for the initial qualitative phase followed by the quantitative data collection and analysis. Quantitative phase results and the qualitative phase responses were integrated and linked in the third methodological orientation. The study also explored the challenges experienced by the school heads and association of representatives through planning, organizing, monitoring, and evaluating collaborative activities in school. The strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats were employed as a data collection method to gather information on the collaborative practices of the faculty association and the school administration. Data analysis was subject to the open coding process, selective coding process, and axial coding process. With the pre-set categories utilizing the ADKAR Change Management Model to collaborative group practices in the management practices, coding process (Axial coding), similar ideas or thoughts were refined, re-stated to avoid redundancy, and eliminated all irrelevant responses which finally arrived at the major themes as factors of the development of a partnership model for collaboration. A total of 36 final themes were determined in the qualitative analysis of the data, which was confirmed by the validation of the shared governance and the manifestation perceived by the faculty membership, faculty, association officers, and school administrators during the mixed method of analysis. Thus, the main themes were the sub-indicators grouped as communication, collaboration, leadership, partnership, school management and engagement, and professional development. Finally, these determined main themes serve as input for the development of a school collaboration partnership model, The study reveals that collaboration practices and challenges through established and sustained shared governance of the faculty association and school administration were communication, partnership, leadership, school management engagement, professional development, and coordination, as manifested in the survey, have to be sustained and practiced maintaining harmony in the school environment-Authors' Abstract."