Essentials of Home Visitation: Teachers',Learners' &Stakeholders' View

This book highlights an in-depth study on the view of teachers, learners and stakeholders on the need for home visitation. A study on the effect of teacher¿s home visitation to the academic performance of the learner is also a focus of this work. Encompassing three years of home visitation for the learners of Talangan Integrated National High School in the Philippines, the teacher-researcher was able to gather data on the academic performance of the learners during their first semester, particularly the General Academic Strand (GAS) and Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM) strands of Senior High School. It was revealed that home visitation significantly helps in increasing the academic performance of learners. Teachers, learners and stakeholders all agree that home visitation helps on the following key essentials of home visitation - establishing contract between teacher, learner and parents; precautionary measure, and not remedy to learner problems; aid in maintaining good academic performance; creating a home extension of learning and evaluation; and inculcating responsible citizenship for future leaders in community.