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Like Parents: Children learn first and foremost from their like parents. In this respect all like parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their like parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about like parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about like parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (like parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the like parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by like parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to like parents much too complex, because of anxiety about like parents getting it 'wrong'.See Also Committed Parents:First, it confirmed the shift towards that consumerism which was becoming so marked a feature of the system: schools were now obliged to listen to and, to some extent, were fashioned by their more vocal and committed parents. While this may have been in many ways a good thing, what was less desirable was that this process gave undue influence to schools in middle-class areas where there was little diffi¬culty in recruiting parents who were often well connected within the local professions and who knew how to lobby effectively and how best to organise.
The first letter to parents is likely to be an invitation to a meeting that will start the scheme, since most schools choose to begin in this way. A big meeting like this gives everyone a sense of launching the PACT scheme properly, and not just slipping into it. It suggests an effort by the whole school, saying to parents: 'We're committed: what about you?' Make sure the school is well prepared for such a meeting. You need to have discussed the ideas behind the scheme thoroughly, for at least two good reasons.
On The Other Hand See Her Parents Proudly:Dorothy, for example, a little second-grader aged seven, was becoming restless, irritable, and difficult to get along with at home. This behavior had begun when she entered school. Her IQ was reported to be 150. A rctest re¬vealed an unevenness of response and a poor performance on memory items, which suggested that she may have been coached on the test. Her parents proudly related examples of her precocity. Perhaps she sensed she was not receiving warm and genuine affection from her parents and sought to win their admiration and approval through her intellectual feats.
Dorothy, for example, a little second-grader aged seven, was becoming restless, irritable, and difficult to get along with at home. This behavior had begun when she entered school. Her IQ was reported to be 150. A rctest re¬vealed an unevenness of response and a poor performance on memory items, which suggested that she may have been coached on the test. Her parents proudly related examples of her precocity. Perhaps she sensed she was not receiving warm and genuine affection from her parents and sought to win their admiration and approval through her intellectual feats. |
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