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Establishing Genuine Parent/Teacher Partnerships : A Home Visit Approach, Kimberly Jo Foy
Establishing Genuine Parent/Teacher Partnerships : A Home Visit Approach, Kimberly Jo Foy
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This article is based on a teacher's personal experience with home visits and the feedback she received from parents. The home visits allowed the teacher to have a holistic view of students and their families. Quotes from an on-going journal convey a deepened relationship between the teacher and her parents. The goals of the home visits were to gain a deeper understanding of the children as readers, and communicate the child's developmental progress to the parents. Another goal was to understand parent perceptions toward home visitations, and build a parent/teacher partnership based on mutual respect. The results section of the …