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Working Parents: Possibly a more common problem is the child who isn't interested. Here teachers - and parents - will be on familiar territory. In fact, though, where a school PACT scheme is working parents well, children tend to be swept along in the general enthusiasm, and the child who really does not want to read with his or her parents, at least occasionally, is a rarity. Where a child continues to be reluctant, the responses of parents and teachers will be dependent upon their knowledge of the individual child and the particular circumstances but this time at least they will have each other for support. Bear in mind also that there may be times (for instance, among top juniors) when it is quite appropriate to rebel against the idea of working parents closely with one's parents. Children who feel like this often find it acceptable, though, to have their parents read the same book separately and talk about it afterwards.
What these parents had told them seemed finally to dispel the myth of working parents-class apathy over children's learning. Parents from all sections of the community were already working parents with their children, to an extent largely unsuspected by the children's schools, in all sorts of ways designed to promote die children's educational development, and especially meir reading and literacy. These parents were keen to do far more, and their main reasons for not doing more seemed to be diffidence about their own ability to help children in the right way and reticence in approaching schools and teachers to ask for professional advice.See Also All The Parents:Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all the parents parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specificall the parentsy, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the 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 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 parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'.
On The Other Hand See Where Parents Are Welcomed:Even where parents are welcomed as part of the school community, and perhaps work in the classrooms, it is rare to find them entrusted with anything other than strictly 'non-academic' activities. And, at the other extreme, a number of schools treat parents as though their child were simply not their concern during school hours. Parents withdraw from a situation where they can so easily feel themselves inferior partners and the myth of an exclusive teachers' expertise is perpetuated. The training and skills of teachers must not be ignored in all this, but what must be acknowledged is parents' undoubted ability to help their children to learn effectively.
Her book fills a long-recognized need, and will be welcomed by all people who like to keep unusual animals as pets; by parents whose offspring bring home unusual guests such as turtles, snakes, frogs, toads, or lizards and expect them to be entertained under the parental roof; and by teachers, who not only have the problem of keeping animals alive for observation in the classroom, but the further prob¬lem of answering—for pupils or parents—questions concerning the diet and health of everything from tadpoles to parakeets and ham¬sters. This book provides the answers. |
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