Parent Teacher Relationships: We have no intention of considering the genera] theme of linking home and school, which is well documented elsewhere,25'26 except to note one point. Namely, that a PACT scheme develops a relationship between Parent Teacher Relationships and teacher which, like all good relationships, needs encouragement in order to be sustained and allowed to grow. Many teachers have commented on improved Parent Teacher Relationships-teacher relationships with the introduction of PACT and they realize how important it is to listen to what Parent Teacher Relationshipss have to say. Such listening, on both sides, can help develop the relationship. If this is accepted and acted upon, the dialogue between every school and its Parent Teacher Relationshipss can develop in a variety of different ways, the richness of which we can only speculate on.
Home-school relationships are never easy, because we have not defined what this whole concept means and agreed what it involves. It means something different for each teacher and for each set of parents: often the expectations and types of relationship vary with individual children in a family. It is important to recognise that educators' relationships are different with either Parent Teacher Relationships. |
