The
Mission of PTA is three-fold:
1.) To support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the
schools, in the community, and before governmental agencies and
other organizations that make decisions affecting children. 2.) To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise
and protect their children. 3.) To encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools
of this nation.
Objectives
of the PTA-
The National Congress of Parents and Teachers is an educational organization
that seeks to unite the forces of home, school, and community in behalf of
children and youth. It's objects are: 1.) To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school,
community and place of worship. 2.) To raise the standards of home life. 3.) To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children
and youth. 4.) To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that
parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education
of children and youth. 5.) To develop between educators and the general public such united
efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages
in physical, mental, social and spiritual education.
What is a Council?
A PTA council is a group of local PTA units organized under the
authority of the Michigan PTA for the purpose of conference,
leadership training and the coordination of efforts of such local
PTA units. It serves as a medium through which the PTA's of an area can together
attack problems beyond the scope of a single PTA working alone.
Organized into a Council, a group of PTA's can bring the power
of united planning and effort to bear on solutions of community-wide
problems affecting children and youth. A council strengthens each local unit enabling it to work more
effectively in its own school and neighborhood. Working with a
field Service Team, a Council may also help or organize new units
and to give them the assistance that develops strong new units. Through conferences and instructional meetings, it enables PTA
officers and chairman to exchange ideas and plans, to benefit from
each other's experiences in PTA work, to learn new techniques of
leadership and to receive training for their specific responsibilities. It provides members of PTA's with opportunities to gain even broader
experience in leadership through services as council delegates,
officers and chairmen; thereby helping also to develop leaders
for positions and tasks of still greater responsibility in the
Michigan and National PTA. The Council acts as a channel of communication by relaying information,
instruction and news from school officials, the Michigan and the
National PTA's. When possible, it alerts the units to future plans
and helps them translate these plans into programs and projects
that serve the community. Council maintains close and cordial working relations with the
school administration. The school Superintendent and the school
principals (or their representatives) of member PTA's are members
of the voting body of the Council. Council representatives attend
and report on school board meetings, and school board members are
invited to attend council meetings. A Council strengthens the local units, develops leaders, engages
in worthwhile community service projects and broadens and deepens
public understanding of home-school cooperation. In doing so, it
extends PTA influence and this benefits children and youth. Councils have strengthened the PTA in countless areas throughout
the nation helping school educators and PTA presidents to understand
their partnership roles as leaders in education. |
