Current practices and challenges of community participation in school improvement program (sip): incase of assosa zone secondary schools.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate current practices and challenges of community participation in implementation of school improvement program (SIP) in case of Assosa zone secondary schools. To conduct this study, mixed research approach & descriptive research design were employed. Simplerandom sampling and Purposive sampling were employed to collect relevant information from the target population .Accordingly, from the total of 160 teachers in sample schools 80(50%) of sample secondary school teachers, eight principals, Three cluster supervisors, Two GQEP experts, twenty four members of PTSA, twenty four members SIC, thirty four members of KETB of the respective secondary schools were selected as a samples. Questionnaire, interviews, document analysis were the data collection tools. In this study data were collected from teachers, PTSA, KETB & SIC members through questionnaires. Data were analyze and interprets by descriptive analysis. The findings of this study showed that current practices of community participation was low in the implementation of SIP. The major factors which hinder current community participations in SIP were low community awareness to the program and financial constraints in the sides of the community and lack of leadership skill, poor communication, lack of community services and ineffective roles of school community (principals, teachers, PTSA KETB & SIC) towards empowering the community. These problems are to be minimized by strengthening school community relation; by giving training, enhance community awareness, providing community services, develop good school-community relation & communication. Finally school community (principals, teachers, PTSA KETB & SIC), zone and woreda educational official should identify problems and set different strategies to solve factors that hindering current community participation in SIP.