“No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests” IfsWellsChildrenSchoolParentInterestTeacherPartnershipBehalfParents And Teachers Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.” WayFeelsYearsChildrenWholeFeelingsJoyInterestPleasureSituationLearningMiddleConstantDelightFactorsBoredomDestructiveDistressHumiliationConstructiveRespondingSuccess FailureChagrin Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.” IfsWellsChildrenSchoolParentInterestResponsibilityTeacherShareInformationCommunicationJudgmentHappeningsMutualPartnershipNeverthelessBehalfParents And TeachersSchools And TeachersMutual Trust Author:Dorothy H Cohen