I highly encourage all of my PreK families to enroll their young children into Parents as teachers. It is a wonderful program that promotes learning for your child and support for parents and helps with preparing your child for Kindergarten. Even as a PreK teacher with 2 degrees in early childhood development, I have my own child enrolled and find it so helpful!
WHAT IS PARENTS AS TEACHERS?
Parents as Teachers is a free and voluntary program that you can enroll your child in. Any child from Birth to Kindergarten entrance can be enrolled. PAT provides a variety of services including personal visits, group programs, screening, and resource network.
RESEARCH PROVEN BENEFITS OF PARENTS AS TEACHERS
CONTACT INFO FOR QUESTIONS OR TO ENROLL
Parents as Teachers is a free and voluntary program that you can enroll your child in. Any child from Birth to Kindergarten entrance can be enrolled. PAT provides a variety of services including personal visits, group programs, screening, and resource network.
- Personal Visits: Home visits that involve parent-child activities to help promote the child's growth and development and empower the parents to be confident in being their child's first teacher.
- Group Programs: Group activities where parents can learn more about child development, parenting, positive parent-child interaction, all while gaining support from others.
- Screening: Quick checks of each child's individual health and development to identify child's strengths as well as areas that may be a concern.
- Resource Network: Parents as teachers connects families with other resources they may need to support their child and family.
RESEARCH PROVEN BENEFITS OF PARENTS AS TEACHERS
- PAT parents know more about child development and child rearing practices.
- PAT parents engage more in language and literacy promoting behaviors with their children.
- Children who participate in PAT are healthier.
- Parents involved in PAT are more knowledgeable about discipline, show more positive involvement with children, and organize their home environment more appropriately.
- PAT children are more advanced than comparison children in language, problem solving, and other cognitive abilities and social development.
- PAT children score higher on kindergarten readiness tests and on standardized measures of reading, math, and language in the elementary grades.
CONTACT INFO FOR QUESTIONS OR TO ENROLL
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- 913-294-5599