Post on 18-Jan-2018
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Effects of
Grandparents’
evolvement in
children’s education
Agrupamento De Escolas De Lamaçães – PORTUGAL3rd MEETING, POLAND
Grandparents can be:
• Shock absorbers
• Bouncing boarders
• Advisers and listeners
• Mediators and friends
•Impartial judges
They can offer:
• Support
• Stability
Grandparents
teach
• Sense of family
• Values
• Beliefs
• Principles
Children are
• more demanding
• suspicious
• question further
• lack sense of
identity• lack sense of belonging
Grandparents have become
indispensable because of their:
• Experience
• Patience
• Ability to create a non
compulsive learning environment
• Ability to love
• Ability to show affection
• Willingness to help
They should
never be left
behind as far as
children’s
education is
concerned
Examples of grandparents’ involvement in children’s educations at our school
Animals at school
Reading and saying poetry
Being there
Experimenting
• Children from
kindergarden learn from
older people
Future actions
• Tales told by elderly people
• Tutorial programme
• Partnership with a psychologist
• Questionnaire to children and to
grandparents
• Analyses of the results
• Other measures to improve
intergenerational learning
Older people help us
focusing on what is
really important