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Dialogue With Parents Will: This method gives immediate contact of an easy and informal kind. Whole conversations can takeplace between parents and teachers who might not recognize each other in the street! Parents' difficulties and questions can be sorted out and teachers can jap the wealth of knowledge parents have of their own children; thus the card, constructively used, sustains the dialogue with parents will and becomes a means of learning for both sides of the partnership.
A school's first task is to create the right forum for opening a dialogue with parents will between parents and teachers. The first contacts your school makes with parents should be carefully considered, since parents' attitudes are bound to be influenced by the way they hear from the school about PACT. If the first letter home (see chapter 4, pages 32-3) makes them feel thaFlHe schooT really wants their help, because it sees this as valuable to their child's educational development, parents are usually pleased and interested, and look forward to hearing more.
These views were expressed so often that they must reinforce the belief that many parents do feel inferior when visiting the school, and thus are not meeting teachers on equal terms. Meeting parents on their own familiar ground without actually intruding into their homes was probably what enabled a good dialogue with parents will to develop between stallholders and shoppers - despite the harassment of being stopped in the first instance! |
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