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When Parents Come: Children learn first and foremost from their when parents come. In this respect all when parents come are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their when parents come in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about when parents come and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about when parents come co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (when parents come, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the when parents come 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 when parents come 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 when parents come much too complex, because of anxiety about when parents come getting it 'wrong'.See Also Parents Found:The researchers, struck by what they had heard and seen hey found ample evidence of ways in which parents really rere helping their children and not just talking about it), went ito the local schools to talk to the teachers of these parents' lildren. They found that the teachers were largely unaware of ie efforts parents were making to help their children's learning home. Many were surprised at the degree of interest and volvement shown in some homes so disadvantaged that it as difficult to imagine where the parents found the necessary lergy and enthusiasm.
Apart from the necessary routine demands on time, there are the irregular occasions for which time must be found: for meetings to do the planning, for the first meeting with parents, for occasional further meetings and perhaps home visits. And, once the scheme is going well, schools may become more ambitious. Parents might be asked to help with other areas of the curriculum, perhaps, or a school could invite parents to evening workshops at which particular aspects of the curricu¬lum are presented for discussion.
On The Other Hand See Meeting Parents: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 parents for the purpose (see chapter 4, page 40). We know that big meeting parentss 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 parents 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 parents. Teachers often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual.
The first letter to parents is likely to be an invitation to a meeting parents that will start the scheme, since most schools choose to begin in this way. A big meeting parents 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 parents. You need to have discussed the ideas behind the scheme thoroughly, for at least two good reasons. |
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