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Parents Need: Children learn first and foremost from their parents need. In this respect all parents need are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents need in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents need and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents need co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (parents need, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the parents need 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 parents need 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 parents need much too complex, because of anxiety about parents need getting it 'wrong'.See Also Teachers And Parents Who: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 and parents who are often unsatisfactory affairs; Teachers and parents who 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 and parents who often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual.
Not that we should ignore the teacher's point of view in all this. It is not always an unmixed pleasure for Teachers and parents who to have to meet parents in the evening, after a hard day's work, and show the requisite charm and interest. And Teachers and parents who have their own anxieties as to what parents may have to say about their work, or about the way the school is tackling some issue.Teachers and parents who say:Td like to meet parents but I never seem to have the time to get to know them.'
On The Other Hand See Listening To Parents
Planning
Organising: listening to parents
planning
organising to parents,
planning,
organising and facilitating groups,
communicating appropriately with adults,
negotiating,
counselling, and
managing volunteers.
The school's recognition of the importance of parents' interest and concern for their children had produced, if a little patchily, a certain openness and relaxation in the school. Talking to parents and, more importantly, listening to them, was a daily practice. Certain routines made this possible. If they wished, parents could wait for or with their children in the playground and then come directly into school to speak to the head or a teacher about a small or large issue without an appointment or any need to break through difficult procedures. |
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