I wanted to let you know November 8th is National Parents as Teachers Day and if I had been #Homeschooling Charlie then I would have let Charlie teach us on National Parents as Teachers Day I thought you might want to as well.
National Parents as Teachers Day is celebrated on November 8 every year. National Parents as Teachers Day works to recognize the organizations that offer educational services to parents across the Country and around the world so that they may be able to better support their children’s learning and growth.
National Parents as Teachers Day acknowledges the important role that parents play in the initial education of their child’s life because every child learns their first lessons at home. National Parents as Teachers Day to celebrate the indispensable role that parental involvement plays in a child’s development and ability to realize their full potential.
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National Parents as Teachers Day was started by the Parents as Teachers National Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The organization declared the first Parents as Teachers Day in 2001. It was decided that National Parents as Teachers Day would be celebrated by offering support to the community by spreading awareness about early childhood programs.
National Parents as Teachers Day encourages Parent Teachers Organizations and parents to come together to support children in their educational and well-being endeavors. Parents as Teachers Organizations offer educational services to parents of young children across the Country.
The concept for Parents as Teachers developed in the 1970s in Missouri. The educators noted that children were beginning kindergarten with varying levels of school readiness, which impacted their classroom performance.
Research showed that greater parent involvement is a crucial link in the child’s development and ability to learn new skills, including reading and writing. National Parents as Teachers Day provides tools, resources, and support to parents to efficiently guide them and their children.
Parents as Teachers National Center is dedicated to taking a holistic approach to strengthening families. In some cases, they have provided their services to pregnant women and families with children from birth through kindergarten.
The broad goal of National Parents as Teachers Day is to prevent child abuse and neglect, increase parental knowledge of early childhood development, improve parenting practices, increase children’s school readiness and success, and help States develop and implement home visiting programs that improve the health and well-being of families with young children. Simply put, National Parents as Teachers Day hopes to raise a generation of happy and healthy children.
National Parents as Teachers Day Activities
- Take National Parents As Teachers Day as an opportunity to teach something new to your child and remember your encouragement and passion will help your child to pick up a new skill more easily.
- If you are not a parent, you can still contribute by joining an organization that works for children’s education. This can help to improve the standard of education in your community.
- Use #ParentsAsTeachersDay to post on social media and tell new parents about the Parents as Teachers initiative and encourage them to join a program.
Facts About Schools That Will Blow Your Mind
- Did you know The Shishi High School located in Chengdu, China was established in 191 B.C. and functions to this day.
- The largest school in the world in terms of the number of students is the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India.
- In 2014, there was an elementary school in Turin, Italy that only had one teacher and one student.
- Did you know meal-time in France is considered part of the curriculum.
- Finnish kids start school at age seven and during the developing years, they’re given free rein as a way to allow children to be children.
Why People Love National Parents as Teachers Day
When a parent is well-informed about the ways in which they can help their child in there education learn better, it has a positive impact on our children and It raises a generation of happy children who are excited about school and learning.
National Parents as Teachers Day helps both children and parents and National Parents as Teachers Day supports them by providing tools, resources, and expertise we can all use in our daily lives.
Children often join kindergarten with inadequate skills but National Parents as Teachers Day hopes to bridge this gap so that every child starts school on the same stage of learning. Which would be a Godsend to children.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
