WGVU has entered into a unique partnership with
Newaygo County Parents as Teachers (PAT), with
the financial support of the Gerber Foundation,
Newaygo County RESA and an anonymous donor.
Newaygo County PAT trainers
visit 400 families with children between 0-8
years monthly. During a winter 2007 visit the
PAT trainer demonstrates to the parent the
use of the PBS Ready to Learn “Learning
Triangle-View/Read/Do.” Through active
participation, parents learn how and why to use
educational television in appropriate ways, follow
up with books and stories, and do simple educational
activities, with their children to help prepare
them for success in school. Parents are introduced
to PBS Web sites for parents and children. During
each visit the family will receive an age appropriate
book for their child.
In a follow-up visit the PAT trainers will discuss
any barriers that parents have encountered in
implementing the Learning Triangle and how to
over come them. In the third visit the PAT trainer
will give a brief survey to assess the effectiveness
of the training.
The unique nature of this partnership is that it
reaches many more families and includes more follow-up
and reinforcement than the PBS Ready to Learn Workshops
are normally able to do.
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