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Every child
has the power to succeed in school and in life and every parent, family
member and caregiver can help. The question is:
How
can we help our children succeed? The answer comes from a combination of
common sense and research about how children learn and about how to prepare
them to learn.
We know, for example, that children tend to
do the same things as their parents do. What we say and do in our daily
lives can help them to develop positive attitudes toward school and learning
and to build confidence in themselves as learners. Showing our children that
we both value education and use it in our daily lives provides them with
powerful models and contributes greatly to their success in school.
As our
children's first and most important teacher, it's important that all parents
build and keep strong ties to our children's schools. When parents and
families are involved in their children's schools, the children do better
and have better feelings about going to school. We help our children to
succeed by working with teachers to make sure that they provide curricula
and use teaching methods that are based on strong scientific evidence about
what works best in helping students to learn.
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