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Many Parents Already: Children learn first and foremost from their many parents already. In this respect all many parents already are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their many parents already in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about many parents already and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about many parents already co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (many parents already, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the many parents already 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 many parents already 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 many parents already much too complex, because of anxiety about many parents already getting it 'wrong'.
Children do have all kinds of pressures put on them many parents already 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 many parents already clearly, aj continue, often over a long period of time, to help tho many parents already who particularly need its support.
Children whose many parents already aren't interested many parents already 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 many parents already, the rate of take-up on th home reading schemes we have described is extremely higr. |
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