Every Teacher's Guide to Working With ParentsTransform teacher-parent relationships into a strategy for children's success! While most parents strive to support their children with the best parenting practices, both teachers and parents often find themselves struggling to reconcile conflicts that can result in hostility, defensiveness, and communication breakdowns. In addition, negative public constructions of parents perpetuate this dilemma, particularly for those parents who are already marginalized through poverty or language barriers. Working from research in three key areas-parent development and skills, social and historical family influences, and parent-school relationships-educator (and parent) Gwen L. Rudney offers teachers: Useful interpretations of parent beliefs and actions Compelling insight into what parents expect from teachers Key ideas that characterize the struggles that parents face while raising children Practical strategies designed to lead to community, trust-building, collaboration, gratitude, and friendship with parents Straightforward chapters offer teachers everything from theory to commonsense strategies for working with parents to improve life and learning for all children. |
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... parents work- ing , and most single parents must work . Like the principal described previously , we may believe that the parents aren't spending enough time with their children . We have evidence , however , that most parents are doing ...
... parents work- ing , and most single parents must work . Like the principal described previously , we may believe that the parents aren't spending enough time with their children . We have evidence , however , that most parents are doing ...
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... parents . We know that people discuss changes in family structure and worry especially about single parents , working parents , and families under stress . Some may translate the family conditions into a belief that the mothers and / or ...
... parents . We know that people discuss changes in family structure and worry especially about single parents , working parents , and families under stress . Some may translate the family conditions into a belief that the mothers and / or ...
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... Single parents today are looking for new ways to survive . Zaslow ( 2002 ) shares the stories of several families created when the single mothers met - through Web sites for single moms- and made arrangements to share homes and ...
... Single parents today are looking for new ways to survive . Zaslow ( 2002 ) shares the stories of several families created when the single mothers met - through Web sites for single moms- and made arrangements to share homes and ...
Contents
So Whats the Problem? | 8 |
The Kids Have a Role | 14 |
Helping Parents Who Have Special Struggles | 23 |
Copyright | |
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