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