This document presents a proposal for integrating the family, community, and school in the learning process at Liceo Rural Lanas high school in Puriscal, Costa Rica. The proposal involves three main strategies: 1) an educational afternoon for parents to encourage participation and discuss the importance of their role, 2) a family and sports Sunday to promote community involvement through shared activities, and 3) a Christmas festival for students, families, and community members to celebrate through music, performances, and shared meals. The proposal aims to strengthen relationships between these groups and enhance student outcomes through collaborative events and activities.

1. UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER
FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
MEMORIA PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS THAT INTEGRATE SCHOOL, FAMILY AND
COMMUNITY IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS OF THE
STUDENTS FROM LICEO RURAL LANAS, PURISCAL, 2017
ANGÉLICA PORRAS MARÍN
LAURA AZOFEIFA BERROCAL
2018

2. JUSTIFICATION
The development of the research helps the institution to improve the
learning process and this one gives an idea to teachers how to include
the population of parents and community that can provide some help to
the institution.

3. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To identify the factors that integrate the school, family and community in
the learning process, targeting an enhancement of the learning skills of
students from Liceo Rural de Lanas in Puriscal, 2017.

4. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To describe the current participation of the families and community in
the resolution of problems related to the educational performance of
Liceo Rural Lanas creating integrational strategies.
• To Identify the strategies applied by the Principal and teachers of the
High School that involve the families in academic position related to
the educational performance with the purpose of improving the
learning process in the Lanas High School.

5. • To develop a benchmarking in educational institutions which have
applied integration models high school-family and community to
facilitate the implementation of a similar model in the Lanas High
School.
• To propose an integrated model high school-family-community that
allows the development of educational strategies for the learning
process.

6. VARIABLES
• Participation of the families.
• Participation of the community.
• Resolution of academic problems.
• Strategies applied by the High School to obtain integration.
• Benchmarking in educational institutions with integration models.

7. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

8. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF LANAS
Lanas is a town located in South Mercedes in the Puriscal district, San
Jose province. This is found at 38 kilometers from South Santiago,
Puriscal. Lanas.

9. LICEO RURAL LANAS
The institution was created in 2006 as an educational need for the
inhabitants of Lanas community.

10. EDUCATION
The education can be defined as the wise, hopeful and respectful
cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that all should have the
chance to share in life (Smith, 2015, ph. 1.)

11. THE SCHOOL
The school is known [as the] lifestyle of the community, in other words,
the school is able to transmit the learning and values that can be
necessary for the community and lead the students to use in a better
way the skills to benefit the society and themselves. (Crespillo, 2010, p
257)

12. COMMUNITY
The community is a group of people who can share activities, religion,
believes, language and can help the improvement of the same people if
they support each other.

13. FAMILY
There are many ways to define a family, but they all have one common
idea: caring.

14. SCHOLAR PERFORMANCE
Academic gain and learning performance of the students is affected by
numerous factors including gender, age, teaching faculty, students
schooling, father/guardian social economic status, residential area of
students, medium of instructions in schools, tuition trend, daily study
hour and accommodation as hostelries or day scholar. (Islamia
University, 2003. Ph1)

15. METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK

16. DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH
According to Glass & Hopkins, 1984 cited by Knupfer & McLellan (ny)
the purpose of the descriptive research is to describe a set of
information useful to achieve a purpose.

17. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
According to Qualitative Research Consultant Association (ny) a
Qualitative research is designed to reveal a target range of audience of
behavior and the perceptions that drive it with reference to specific
topics or issues.

18. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
The objective of this type of research is to quantify facts and simplify
results from a sample to the population of interest, furthermore measure
the frequency of various views and opinions in a chosen sample.

19. MIXED RESEARCH
This research is mixed since it is necessary to find the behavior and the
perceptions of the parents, teachers, principal and students towards the
participation of parents and the community with the institution. Also, the
research summarizes characteristics of students and parents about the
believe of participation of parents, community and the work of the
institution.

20. SOURCES OF INFORMATION
• Primary sources: The students, family, teachers, and principal will
constitute the primary sources of this investigation.
• Secondary sources: The secondary sources for this investigation will
be all the printed and online books, thesis, articles, and other types of
material that can contribute to support the idea of establishing suitable
components to formulate an integration model High School-family-
community for the improvement of the learning process in an
educational system.

21. POPULATION
The population of this study will be constituted by all the students of
Liceo Rural Lanas, parents in Lanas community, the five teachers, and
the principal.

22. SAMPLE
According to the population for this project, it will not be a sample. It will
be used all the students from the institution. They are 19 students, 4
teachers from Liceo Rural Lanas, the principal, 15 parents from Lanas
town and 5 teachers from Rural High Schools. They constitute the
sample for the research to obtain the necessary information.

23. TECHNICAL INSTRUMENTS TO COLLECT DATA
• OBSERVATION
• INTERVIEW
• QUESTIONNAIRE

24. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE
OBSERVATION

25. ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATION
• Great absenteeism rate in the meetings.
• There is lack of interest in the majority of parents about the
educational performance of their children.
• Minimum participation of the community

26. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVIEW
• The institution carries out some strategies to involve the families and
the community.
• The teachers point out that they as professionals can help to create a
better atmosphere for the parents and institution.
• Teachers consider that the role of the family in the learning process is
really important.
• They think that there should be a change in the projection of the high
school towards the community.

27. BENCHMARKING IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WITH
INTEGRATION MODELS
•Liceo Rural Roca Quemada, Talamanca: Cultural and social
activities.
• Liceo Rural Jákjuö Surú, Talamanca:Traditional activities.
•Liceo Rural La Aldea, Sarapiquí: Traditional activities.
•Colegio Nocturno Río Frío, Sarapiquí: Cultural activities.
•Liceo Rural La Salina, Siquirres: Traditional activities.

28. QUESTIONNAIRE APPLIED TO STUDENTS

29. GRAPH N. 5 EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION OF PARENTS IN EVENTS
DEVELOPED BY THE HIGH SCHOOL
47%
32%
21%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

30. GRAPH N.9 AVAILABILITY DEMONSTATRED BY PARENTS
TOWARDS THE INSTITUTION
37%
47%
16%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

31. GRAPH N. 10 INTEREST SHOWN BY PARENTS TOWARDS THE
INSTITUTION
37%
47%
16%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

32. GRAPH N.11 GOOD RELATION OF THE PARENTS WITH
TEACHERS AND PRINCIPAL
84%
11%
5%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

33. GRAPH N.12 DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND
MEETINGS TO INTEGRATE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
89.47%
5.26% 5.26%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

34. QUESTIONNAIRES APPLIED TO PARENTS

35. GRAPH N.18 ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN INSTITUTIONAL
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
60%
33%
7%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

36. GRAPH N.22 OPINION OF PARENTS RELATED TO THE LACK OF
SUPPORT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SCHOLAR
PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS
73%
27%
Agree Disagree

37. GRAPH N.23 AVAILABILITY OF THE PARENTS TO COLLABORATE
IN INSTITUTIONAL MEETINGS, ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS FOR
THE WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS
93%
7%
Agree Disagree

38. GRAPH N. 24 DISPOSITION DEMONSTRATED BY PARENTS TO
HELP IN THE RESOLUTION OF PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE
INSTITUTION
60%
40%
Agree Disagree

39. GRAPH N.26 DISPOSITION OF PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN
INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH THE COMMUNITY
80%
13%
7%
Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

40. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

41. COST OF THE STUDY
ITEM QUANTITY
UNIT COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(COLONES)
TOTAL COST
(DOLLARS)
Photocopies 1908 25 47.700 82,53
Professional hours 180 13.465 2.423,700 4193,54
Transportation 22 2.045 44.990 77,97
Food 40 2.500 100.000 200
Total 2150 18035 2 .616,390 4554,04

42. PROPOSAL OF STRATEGIES FOR THE INTEGRATION
OF THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN THE
EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

43. JUSTIFICATION
The proposal for this investigation is a great benefit for the high school
because it can be used to achieve the goal that is to integrate family
and community through the development of activities, and strategies
that can help.

44. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To provide a proposal model that can integrate the family and
community to enhance the learning process, creating a good
environment for the well-being of the student population, in Liceo Lanas
in Puriscal, 2017.

45. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• To propose strategies that promote integration and interest of the
family and community towards the institution increasing the
performance of the students
• To develop strategies and activities that allow support from parents
and community, increasing the participation of students.

46. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL
• Researchers ask for permission to the Principal of the High School to carry out the
proposal in Liceo Rural Lanas.
• Investigators ask the Principal for the permission to go to the High School to present
the Principal and teachers the different strategies and activities to achieve the
integration of the family and community with the High School.
• The proposal is developed in three different steps.

47. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL
• Educative afternoon for parents: Thus, the proposal is based on
the start the year sending a note to all parents in a very creative way
inviting them to come in an afternoon to the High School to have an
educative time with them and have a coffee. The purpose of this step
is to encourage parents to support more the students and to help
them to make good decisions for their future by studying and to avoid
giving up. On the other hand, the proposal works to share with parents
a nice afternoon and talk about how important their role is in
education and promote the participation of them towards the High
School.

48. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL
• Family and Sports Sunday: It helps to stimulate the participation of
the community, parents, students and teachers, helping to gather all of
them in one area for the institution benefit. Liceo Rural Lanas can take
advantage of this activity to attract the community and to make some
money to improve the institution. There are different activities to
participate in, games, Zumba, aerobics, food, and more.
• The development of this activity with total collaboration of the teachers
and principal is important to achieve the goal, so the idea is to receive
people who desire to establish a close relation with Liceo Rural Lanas
and recognize their good job for the education. At the same time, it
helps new generations from the primary level to feel excited to be
studying in High School when they see the activities and the example
of older students collaborating with Lanas.

49. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL
• Christmas festival: Activity where there will be music, students show
their performance, teachers participate and the community is invited to
join the event. It is a way to show the good work of the institution and
gather the members of the community.
• Students can demonstrate many of their skills. For instance, they can
develop role plays related to Christmas time and daily situations that
they live in High School. In addition, students can show their language
and musical abilities by singing Christmas songs in English, and
playing some instruments to harmonize the songs. Additionally, people
from the community can share different types of dishes or sell them
during the event to get money to help the High School or the students.

50. SWOT ANALYSIS
• Strengths: Motivation of the teachers towards the improvement of
family and High School relationship.
• Weaknesses: Demotivation.
• Opportunities: Integration.
• Threats: Distance of parents in the community.

51. IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSAL
• Academic impact: Students will be encouraged to continue studying
• Social impact: Reinforcement of values among the community, family,
and High School throughout the different activities established in the
proposal.
• Community impact: To understand the importance of the institution
into the community.
• Impact on the students: It will be in the life of the student and the
learning process.
• Impact on teachers: More conscious teachers.

52. OTHER STUDIES DERIVED
• A wide study that involves High Schools from different parts of the
country can be very useful to get information from several principals
and teachers.
• An investigation based on a comparison between rural and urban
High Schools can be relevant to determine if location represents an
essential factor in the way of thinking family has about education and
the necessity of being part of it.

53. THANK YOU