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Educator (and parent) Gwen Rudney offers straightforward strategies and suggestions to help teachers collaborate with parents to improve life and learning for all children.
It is self-evident that parents and children garner the benefits of a great teacher but also pay some kind of price for anything less than a sterling teacher. Likewise, teachers and children share the advantages of committed, capable parents, but also suffer consequences when parental responsibility and efficacy falters. Therefore, parents and teachers must be allies who share common expectations, methods, and goals. This book, divided into three parts will help everyone achieve this goal.
Communicating with Parents: A Guide to Effective Practice is an essential guidebook for the K-12 education professional. This book takes an in-depth look at communicating with families of students in elementary and secondary schools and is founded on the most current research and practice. Divided into five main sections, this guide presents evidence-based content and strategies related to: Developing Caring Relationships in Schools, Communicating with Families for Student Success, Communicating with Families throughout the School Year, Communicating with Families in Meetings, and Addressing Difficult Topics with Families. Additionally, a broad-based school population is covered with pertinent information for working with families of: general education students, students with disabilities, culturally/linguistically diverse students, students from low socioeconomic status, and students with unique gifts and talents. The evidence-based material is enhanced and illustrated with examples, graphics, and professional reproducible materials, and on every page, educators will be given the most research-based content, sound examples, practical applications, and ready-to-use resources. An indispensible guide for all K-12 general education teachers, special educators, related services personnel, and administrators for both pre-service and in-service training.
In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.
Provides advice for elementary teachers on collaborating with parents to enhance a child's educational experience.
This is the much anticipated Third Edition of the original award-winning volume. Fully indexed and updated, this edition covers the same topics as the First and Second editions but with new information for 2021 onwards. The book begins by examining key mistakes teachers make in the 'direct realm' - i.e. when interacting face-to-face with students. These first three chapters cover rapport-building, active-engagement and behavior management as it applies in a high-school setting. Following this, the book expansively covers a range of tips, techniques and tools to engage advanced, exam-level learners and to effectively enhance the teaching process via the use of technology. The book concludes with an often overlooked sphere of teaching: how to work effectively with colleagues and parents (very powerful when strategized correctly). Bonus material on the unique challenges of teaching overseas is provided in a plenary chapter. This edition of the book has been exhaustively proofread and indexed, and is of a much-higher quality than can be attributed to the First and Second editions.
Learn strategies that classroom teachers are not taught in college preparation. To be an effective teacher, skilled instruction is not enough. Getting partners on your side is also essential to success!From the author of The Parents' Public School Handbook, Ken Shore provides a comprehensive and practical guide to improve teachers' skills in working with parents and successfully engaging them as partners in the educational process.This bi-fold laminated guide includes:Helping parents support homework and promote academic success Dealing with difficult parents Making the most of "back-to-school" night Do's and don'ts of Parent-Teacher conferences Ways to communicate with parents Dealing with culturally diverse parentsA valuable pre-service or in-service training tool!
Learn strategies that classroom teachers are not taught in college preparation. To be an effective teacher, skilled instruction is not enough. Getting partners on your side is also essential to success!From the author of The Parents' Public School Handbook, Ken Shore provides a comprehensive and practical guide to improve teachers' skills in working with parents and successfully engaging them as partners in the educational process.This bi-fold laminated guide includes:Helping parents support homework and promote academic success Dealing with difficult parents Making the most of "back-to-school" night Do's and don'ts of Parent-Teacher conferences Ways to communicate with parents Dealing with culturally diverse parentsA valuable pre-service or in-service training tool!
Teachers and administrators will learn how to create the respectful, trusting relationships with families necessary to build the educational partnerships that best support children's learning. The book will cover the mindset and core beliefs required to bond with families, and will provide guidance on how to plan engagement opportunities and events throughout the school year that undergird effective partnerships between families and schools.
Move beyond conflict to true collaboration with difficult parents of children with special needs by understanding their perspectives and using appropriate methods to address their concerns!
