parent-teacher relationship

"[This book] is designed to support the efforts of all educators to increase learning outcomes by engaging with the first and most influential teachers in children's lives: their families. The book is a framework for implementing best practices to increase the likelihood of engaging every family with an emphasis on those families that have been traditionally disengaged and disenfranchised from schools"--Provided by publisher.

Offers advice for teachers who work with the parents of special needs children and gives suggestions to develop positive communication with parents, be aware of cultural differences, deal with anger, denial, and resistance, and work with noncustodial or foster parents.

Offers advice to teachers on how to build positive relationships with parents, discussing the parent-teacher partnership, explaining how to start the year off right, looking at methods of communicating with parents, and considering techniques for defusing tension, and dealing with serious issues.

Offers both parents and teachers practical advice on how they can work together to improve a child's school experience, with tips for working out common issues, including homework, communication, and discipline problems.

Provides specific suggestions for both organizing and sustaining an effective advisory program.

Presents over 450 letters, invitations, greetings, thank-yous, requests, and other types of notes teachers may use as models for communicating with parents, students, and school administrators and personnel.

Offers educators advice on how to deal with volatile or confrontational parents, with information on parental aggression and confrontation and an overview of various approaches in academic settings.

Offers advice to educators on how to start and maintain a program for getting parents involved in their childrens' schooling, explaining the workshop approach of encouraging parent participation, and describing sixteen effective workshops.