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Between Parents: Children learn first and foremost from their between parents. In this respect all between parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their between parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about between parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about between parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (between parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the between 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 between 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 between parents much too complex, because of anxiety about between parents getting it 'wrong'.
Children do have all kinds of pressures put on them between parents but in our experience, when the school and hoi work closely together, these pressures can be, relieved. But t school must get its contribution across to between parents clearly, aj continue, often over a long period of time, to help tho between parents who particularly need its support.
Children whose between parents aren't interested between parents who genuinely aren't interested in their children education must be quite hard to find; we haven't met any ye though doubtless they must exist. Where the school takes th trouble to contact aJl its between parents, the rate of take-up on th home reading schemes we have described is extremely higr. |
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