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Involving Parents In Education: In our school PACT means more than getting parents to help children at home with reading. It means involving parents in education ourselves with parents as a way of getting them involved with the school and their children's total education. We realized that making the school somewhere where everyone in the family had a say and a place would forge closer lasting links, and would offer natural opportunities for contact, consultation and cooperation. We decided on certain strategies; others developed as offshoots, as you will see as you read on.
Another group of parents who worry teachers are those continue to use 'wrong' methods, despite advice from school. Such parents are rare when a school has sold its sch< well, but they do exist. Where teachers believe that thi happening, they need to liaise closely with the parents, tr] to persuade them to change over a period of time. What rr never be forgotten is that many parents already hear tl children read;6 by involving parents in education these parents directly with school the worst that can happen is that there is no change the methods they use, so schools have nothing to lose.
By involving parents in education parents in this kind of wholesale way, the school is able to provide a natural meeting-place. Parents themselves can then develop, possibly with the aid of teachers, many different activities from which their children will eventually gain advantage. For example, in an inner-city school with a large proportion of non-English-speaking parents, teachers and parents have organized English language classes. |
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