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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... Target Goals of Parenting I find it helpful to see the visual image formed by the concept of " staying in the middle . " If we could take each con- cern , interaction , decision , worry , plan , and issue that ... Target Goals of Parenting.
... Target Goals of Parenting I find it helpful to see the visual image formed by the concept of " staying in the middle . " If we could take each con- cern , interaction , decision , worry , plan , and issue that ... Target Goals of Parenting.
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... target goals every time they think about or deal with their children . Rain or shine , day or night , big or little : They try to reach the target goals even when they have had a long day and are tired . Or when the kids have had a long ...
... target goals every time they think about or deal with their children . Rain or shine , day or night , big or little : They try to reach the target goals even when they have had a long day and are tired . Or when the kids have had a long ...
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... goals for parents in Chapter 1 : Society too often views parents as though they were barely meeting target goals or completely missing them . As family advocates , we can let others know that if it were as easy as the parents " only ...
... goals for parents in Chapter 1 : Society too often views parents as though they were barely meeting target goals or completely missing them . As family advocates , we can let others know that if it were as easy as the parents " only ...
Contents
So Whats the Problem? | 8 |
The Kids Have a Role | 14 |
Helping Parents Who Have Special Struggles | 23 |
Copyright | |
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