PERCEPTION OF PARENT-STAKEHOLDERS IN THE SCHOOLS' READINESS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DISTANCE LEARNING MODALITIES AT EASTERN SAMAR NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL

The prime purpose of the study is to highlight the relationship between perceived schools readiness for distance learning and the perceived effectiveness of schools implementation of distance learning modalities of parents in Eastern Samar National Comprehensive High School, Borongan City Division, province of Eastern Samar, among parents whose children are recipients of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and officially enrolled during the school year 2021-2022. As a result, the researcher decided to investigate how well-prepared and successful the schools were at integrating distance learning modes from the perspective of the parents of students enrolled in ESNCHS. The researcher investigated the correlational relationship between readiness and perceived effectiveness of the three primary distance learning modalities in terms of curriculum support, instructional support, and overall learning program among Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) recipient parents of Eastern Samar National Comprehensive High School for the School Year 2020-2021. The results appear to make sense due to the ready and very effective perceptions of the respondents based on the previously presented results. The finding implies the need to continuously implement good practices in monitoring learners learning activities even if they are not in school; that the teacher-parent relationship be strengthened through focus group activities to identify their strengths and weaknesses in assisting their children; and to regularly review the preparation, distribution, and retrieval of learning modules mechanism to cater the learning needs of the students better. KEYWORDS: Distance learning, Readiness of implementation, parent-stakeholders, COVID-19 Pandemic