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Work With Parents: Not that we should ignore the teacher's point of view in all this. It is not always an unmixed pleasure for teachers to have to meet parents in the evening, after a hard day's work with parents, and show the requisite charm and interest. And teachers have their own anxieties as to what parents may have to say about their work with parents, or about the way the school is tackling some issue.Teachers say:Td like to meet parents but I never seem to have the time to get to know them.'
The lack of discrimination on the part of parents should not encourage you to produce sloppy work with parents, however. Don't lose sight of the fact that every set of prints which you sell and deliver becomes an example of your work with parents and if you deliver too many which please the parents only because they love their child, your business will not expand as rapidly as it should.
In questions like these, common sense and good teaching coincide. They can also be fun, for parents as well as children. More than anything else, a good book is something that parents and children can enjoy together. Teachers have undoubted skills and experience that most parents do not have; parents have the advantage of emotional bonds conducive to learning that schools can never provide to quite the same extent. Thus parents' work with parents complements that of teachers - and children receive the benefit of a partnership between what are, after all, the most important adults in their lives. |
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