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Bring Parents And Teachers: Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers 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 working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
If a good working partnership between parents and teachers can be started when a child first attends school and maintained throughout his school life, then parents and teachers can feel that they have given that child the fullest possible support. Most of what we have said about partnership is applicable to children of all ages. But when the child reaches secondary school, the focus of co-operation may well need to shift. While the formal PACT reading schemes we have discussed in this book have much to offer children in their first year or so at their new school, we recognize that if all secondary teachers and all parents are to maintain a partnership, more will be needed to bring parents and teachers them together.
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 are often unsatisfactory affairs; teachers 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 often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual.
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