Principal: Helen Law (sharing thoughts)

Parents and Teachers Play An Important Role In Education.

Parents in education connects home and school together in partnership. Parents involvement is the key to a child’s success—in school and in life. The success of  your children’s  school life depends greatly on  the  experiences  your children have had  at home. 

Therefore, parents and teachers must be knowledgeable and supportive of each other to  make your children's school  years  the  time of   vibrant  living and  learning.

Success is imminent when parents and teachers share the responsibility of educating children. Your children, the teachers and you each has an essential role  in helping children to be successful. 

Teachers' role in education has long been clear,  they create a conducive environment for learning, inspire students, instruct them and initiate positive  behaviour. 

What is the role of a parent?

Parent's roles as a Cheerleader, Friend, Teacher and Encourager Understanding of these roles help your children step up to the challenges of learning.

Be a Cheerleader

Children thrive on encouragement. It's important to make something positive out of failure, teach them this vital skill. This will help your children see how important it is to keep trying.

Be a Friend

Sometimes what your children need is someone willing to hear what they're thinking and that someone should be you.  Listening respectfully to your children's concerns can be a major confidence booster. If you take your children seriously they're more likely to do the same for their education.

Be a Teacher

You can't just leave it all up to the teacher. Sure, it's their job, but even the best can be hard pressed to address the individual needs of every child. Children still need personal attention, so it's the role of the parents to make sure they get it.

Be the Encourager

Parents and teacher should be “praising and encouraging” children through their education.  Children require structure, enforce in advance by helping your children set and keep schedules. And complete assignments on time.

What is the parental role in education? 

Research reports that parents who are actively involved in their children's education can help their children develop positive attitudes,increase self-confidence and  achieve academic excellence.

Taking on the responsibility in your children’s education, you inspire and teach responsibility. The interest you engender in them, the confidence you help build, and the skills you share will help them to take charge of  their lives and education.

Your  children will  learn  what  it means to be responsible  and  will  do  their best. Parents can help your children to be successful. You can make the world their classrooms.

You can show pride, love and pleasure in your children's accomplishments in a way no one can. You can make learning personal and meaningful for your children.  

This goal is best accomplished when three partners in your children’s education, each fulfill their own responsibilities.  

Young  children  tend  to  be  highly  open  and  creative.  Unfortunately, many parents want children to conform. 

As outside  pressures from parents  grow, the children's environment  closes in on them. 

Children find it less and less  rewarding to  express  interest  in  things, to  be   curious, to  be  creative  in  investigating  their  world. 

Parents should encourage and let your children blossom in their own time and aid their development.  

This way, your children will feel less pressured, and you will have provided a happier upbringing for your children.

The celebrated Jean Piaget the psychologist believed that children learn at different paces and arrive at different levels at different times.

For example, children learn to walk at different ages through different styles of learning, and even then, they all walk at different paces.

Parents who attempt to rush their children's development may in the process do more damage than good.   

Did you know that...

History  is full  of examples of people whose  creativity wasn’t  recognized.     

* Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.

* Beethoven’s    music   teacher  once  said  of    him,  “ As  a  composer,   he  is  hopeless.”

* A newspaper  editor  fired  Walt  Disney  because he had  “ no  good  ideas.”

* Abraham  Lincoln  entered  the  Black  Hawk  War as  a  captain  and  came    out  as a private.

* Winston  Churchill  failed  the  sixth  grade. 

* Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

* Thomas  Edison’s teachers  told  him  that  he  was too stupid  to  learn     anything.

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