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Asked Parents To Take: This teacher asked parents to take most of the responsibility for teaching the sight vocabulary, while he himself taught the spelling patterns. Parents were given advice and materials to provide and play reading games with their children. This method worked extremely well. It was noticeable, though, that where parents did not attend the supporting reading-workshop session, much less progress was made. This reinforces our view that regular contact between parents and teachers is essential if a PACT scheme is to flourish.
Most schools launch their schemes by choosing the simplest way of getting a large number of parents together, which is to invite them to a special meeting for the purpose (see chapter 4, page 40). We know that big meetings between parents and teachers are often unsatisfactory affairs; teachers may be frus¬trated because so few parents turn up, or parents disappointed because the meeting does not deal with the issues they really want to know about. But where the theme is children's learning, and especially where parents know that they are being asked to help with it, there is usually a dramatic increase in attendance and in the degree of participation and enthusiasm during the meeting. Teachers often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual.See Also Between Parents And Teachers:Children learn first and foremost from their between parents and teachers. In this respect all between parents and teachers are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their between parents and teachers in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about between parents and teachers and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about between parents and teachers co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (between parents and teachers, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
Not that we should ignore the teacher's point of view in all this. It is not always an unmixed pleasure for teachers to have to meet between parents and teachers in the evening, after a hard day's work, and show the requisite charm and interest. And teachers have their own anxieties as to what between parents and teachers may have to say about their work, or about the way the school is tackling some issue.Teachers say:Td like to meet between parents and teachers but I never seem to have the time to get to know them.'
On The Other Hand See Tackle Parents ':We believe that there is a central need to tackle parents ' parents' fears and to demonstrate to them the importance of the part they could and should be playing: it is in the hands of teachers to do this. Where teachers approach parents believing that children's learning will actually improve if their parents help them, and believing also that parents are keen to give this help, they find them ready and willing to co-operate. Teacher attitudes toward parent involvement are already changing fast and many schools have proved themselves able to cope with the problems of time and organization necessary for such involvement.
Such joint ventures need not generate an unacceptable workload for teachers. It is more the belief that they are worth¬while and the moral support that is given that matter. In any case, once parents and teachers are working as partners it is possible to share the burden of organizing events and activities.Times help the school to tackle parents ' a subject which requires more specialist knowledge. One good example is that of an edu¬cational psychologist and a teacher (a husband and wife team) who, jointly with teachers, ran a series of discussions on 'Adolescence' with the parents of a girls' secondary school.28 Parents warmly appreciated the chance to look closely at a topic that concerned them, in conjunction with professionals who. knew their children. |
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