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Attitudes Of Parents And Teachers: We believe that there is a central need to tackle 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 of parents and teachers 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.
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all 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 specifically, 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.
Social factors, like parents, teachers and peers, play a strong role in influencing children's attitudes of parents and teachers and behaviour. Adolescents are particularly guided by friends, while younger children are most influenced by parents, other family members and teachers (Sallis 1995). Toddlers have been found to be especially influenced by parental encouragement for physical activity (Klesges et al. 1986). |
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