ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND SCHOOL BEHAVIORS OF GRADE 7 OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS’ CHILDREN IN TAGUDIN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Authors: PERALTA ROSALYN V. 
Published: September 2023

This study aimed to assess the academic performance and school behavior of the children of Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) enrolled at Tagudin National High School during the school year, 2022-2023. Specifically, it sought to answer the following: 1. What is the profile of the learners along a. Sex; b. Medium of communicating with parents; and c. Frequency of communicating with parents? 2. What is the level of academic performance of the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) children? 3. What is the level of school behavior of Grade 7 OFW children along Hyperactive, Withdrawn, Poor attention/Concentration, Aggressive, Uncooperative, Disruptive, Manipulative, and Inappropriate Social Behavior; 4. Is there a significant relationship between the profile of the OFW children and the level of academic performance? 5. Is there a significant relationship between the level of performance of the OFW parents and children's level of school behavior 6. What plan can be proposed to improve the behavior of learners? 7. What is the level of acceptability of the action plan? The researcher used a descriptive correlational research design. The Grade 7 OFW children of will be the respondents. The study was conducted among the 91 OFW children enrolled at Tagudin National High School during the school year 2022- 2023. A total enumeration of the children of OFW enrolled were used as respondents. Based from the salient findings, the following conclusions are draw: 1. The respondents have distinct profiles from one another and no two individuals are exactly alike; 2. Classroom behaviors of the OFW children differ from one another but they execute favorable and unfavorable behaviors inside the class; 3. Sex affects the disruptive and uncooperative school behaviors of the OFW children of TNHS; 4. An action plan is a helpful material that contains strategies to improve the school behaviors of the TNHS OFW children; and 5. The developed action plan is simplified and down to earth but carries solutions to gauged problems of OFW children. From the findings and conclusions drawn, the following recommendations are hereby offered: 1. It is suggested that OFW children should be given more kindness and understanding as to their unfavorable behaviors yet they should establish a closer bonding with their OFW parents through the help of the social media's chat or messenger; 2. Misdemeanors conducted inside the class should be immediately settled by the teacher or guidance counselor with the guardian but teachers should possess many strategies to address issues and concerns like poor attention and low academic performance; 3. It is suggested that male students should be given roles inside the classroom to feel their importance and to deviate from untoward behaviors; 4. The action plan developed for the purpose of helping the OFW children focus their attention to their studies should be brought to the principal's office and when found worthwhile, be endorsed to all teachers of TNHS for their benchmark of their own classroom action plan; and 5. The action plan is timely and appropriate and it is a nice material to be used as benchmark to improve the school behaviors of OFW children.