Staff has also made it clear to parents that they are welcome at the school anytime. Studies have demonstrated that parents have a significant impact on the child's learning process (National Center for Family Literacy, 1995) and this has definitely proven to be the case at Harriet Tubman. However, initial efforts to include the family and the community once again raised questions about teacher training, this time in the area of teamwork where the teacher would have to engage in a three-way partnership with the principal, other teachers and parents. This concern was addressed in the mentor teacher training program.

Educators must bridge the gap between education in the classroom and real-life situations. Regardless of qualifications in subject areas, teachers still fail to conform to the realities of the classroom. The majority of novice teachers struggle during their first year and quit. Colleges and universities need to create...

This will have two affects: it will help ease the teacher into the classroom and it will test if the teacher is cut out for the profession. and, further integration of the family and the curriculum is desirable with more effort to bring the family into the curriculum planning process and to consult with the family to understand differentiated learning requirements.
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