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Teachers And Parents Need: Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers and parents need - and very effective teachers and parents need 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 and parents need working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers and parents need over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and teachers and parents need) to embody this concept.
Most schools launch their schemes by choosing the simplest way of getting a large number of parents together, which is to invite them to a special meeting for the purpose (see chapter 4, page 40). We know that big meetings between parents and teachers and parents need are often unsatisfactory affairs; teachers and parents need may be frustrated because so few parents turn up, or parents disappointed because the meeting does not deal with the issues they really want to know about. But where the theme is children's learning, and especially where parents know that they are being asked to help with it, there is usually a dramatic increase in attendance and in the degree of participation and enthusiasm during the meeting. teachers and parents need often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual.
Not that we should ignore the teacher's point of view in all this. It is not always an unmixed pleasure for teachers and parents need to have to meet parents in the evening, after a hard day's work, and show the requisite charm and interest. And teachers and parents need have their own anxieties as to what parents may have to say about their work, or about the way the school is tackling some issue.teachers and parents need say:Td like to meet parents but I never seem to have the time to get to know them.' |
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