Strategies for Enhancing Management of Parental Involvement in Kliptown Secondary School Eldorado Park

Parent involvement is the volunteer service of parents at school or at home for the purpose of improving a child’s education. This means that parental involvement in any form, be it helping the learners with homework, attending parent meeting at their schools, or receiving and responding to their child’s academic success, impacts on their academic achievement. Over the past 20 years, parental involvement has become a topic of concern for policy makers, educators, and researchers, but little emphasis was placed on strategies to enhance parental involvement in schools. This study investigates strategies to enhance and manage parental support in Kliptown Secondary School and a case study research design was used in this study. Data was collated by using focus group interview with five participants sharing their viewpoints on strategies to enhance parental involvement. The data was analysed and interpreted by using Creswell’s six-step model. From the responses, Kliptown Secondary School has systems and strategies (phoning, asking parent to be a volunteer, sending letters to the parents, parent meetings, and report day) to manage parental involvement but the systems and strategies in place are limited, the school needs to use more avenues to enhance parental involvement. The researcher recommends the school should conduct a survey to determine suitable times or day for the parent to attend workshops or school’s events, the school should organise a workshop to educate the parent on importance of parental involvement regarding their child’s education, on the school, and the child’s behaviour. As a teacher, the researcher noticed that the lack of parental involvement has contributed to the learners’ poor academic performance, and that parents’ involvement will improve their child’s academic performance, hence, the need to look for strategies to enhance parents’ involvement in schools.