Parents As Teachers

Parents As What Do You Get?

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Teachers Personal Visits ... The program will be
individualized for your family through personal
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to Better Understand Your
visits by the district parent educator. During
these visits, she will help you understand what
to expect as your child grows.
Child’s Development?
She will share an appropriate activity and a Our Goals ...
book during each visit. You will be provided
material about important observations you can Provide factual, helpful
make during your child’s development and information about your
things you can do to encourage language and
intellectual growth. child’s development.
Group Meetings ... Group meetings Identify conditions which
are designed to help you and other parents share might interfere with normal
Experts Agree ... experiences and gain new insights into your
development.
child’s development and behavior.
Your child’s Some of our meetings will be to discuss topics
of mutual interest and concern. Some will be
Provide periodic check ups
of your child’s educational
most productive activities for you and your child to do with
other families. and sensory development.
years of learning Periodic Screenings ... These health
and developmental screenings (including vision
Reduce the stress and
maximize the pleasure
occur before the and hearing) will help you understand your
child’s development in a very systematic way. of parenting.

age of five. Standardized measures are used to help you

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fy difficulties your child may be having so that
you can request testing and help if needed.
Monthly Storytime ... The district par-
ent educator conducts a monthly storytime at
the elementary library. A story is read and chil-
dren participate in a follow-up activity.
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Parents As Based on Research ...
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Teachers Recent infant brain research reveals that
there are “critical periods” for brain develop-
Parents As Teachers is
for all parents of children
ment, and the most important period is the
first year! birth through 5.
The latest neurological research -- as fea-
tured in TIME, Newsweek, NBC Evening About P.A.T. ...
News, Prime Time Live, the White House
Conference on Childhood LEarning -- shows Sponsored by the Holden
that by twelve months of age, the brain has R-3 School District in coop-
virtually completed wiring itself for lan- eration with the Missouri
guage.
Department of Education.
This research shows that your baby is born
with trillions of neurons with an almost infi- All parents who live in the
P.A.T. Services ... nite potential for learning. If these neurons
Holden School District and
are used, they connect with other neurons

Personal Visits and, if used repeatedly, make permanent con- have a child between birth
nections. If not used, they do not develop. and school are eligible.

Group Meetings
It is the experiences in infancy that deter-
mine which neurons are used, and therefore The district parent educator
which circuits are wired into the brain. But is Delann Lewis and
Periodic Screenings there are time limits called “critical periods”
on the brain’s ability to create itself.
Elementary Principal
Robyn Sisk is the program
Monthly Storytime
That’s one reason why some children grow coordinator.
up to be better learners than others. Sounds
scary, but the good news is we know how to It’s a FREE service!
take advantage of this incredible potential for
learning. http://holden.k12.mo.us
Enroll Now! FREE to Through P.A.T., all families in the Holden
School District can begin practices likely to
... to learn about P.A.T.
and Holden Schools.
Parents of Young Children improve their child’s ability to learn later in
Call Delann Lewis at (816)732-4136 life.