Every Teacher′s Guide to Working With Parents

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Corwin Press, Jun 23, 2005 - Education - 128 pages

Transform 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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... I Didn't Know How to Say It” 59 Message One: All of Us Have Parents . . . and Most of Us Become Them 60 The Problem With Ethnocentrism: Like Me/Not Like Me Thinking 61 The Problem With Assumptions 62 A Gentle Reminder 63 Message Two ...
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... I told her that the father had done a very bad thing, and that people were going to help the little boy and his dad. Most parents take care of their kids. It's just not news when they do so. Maybe it should be the news. The message that ...
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... me before reading my words. I grew up in southern California, where I attended (and later taught in) schools rich in diversity. I was an only child, and both my parents worked. I am Lutheran, but my parents did not ... not raised in the ...
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Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Why Do They Do Those Things They Do?
How Can Teachers Build Relationships That Work?
What Are Powerful Messages We Can Share?
References
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2005)

Gwen L. Rudney, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Minnesota, Morris. A teacher of language arts and social studies at the middle school level for more than a decade, her teaching and research interests include classroom processes, teacher development, multicultural education, and working with parents. She has worked with student teachers and cooperating teachers in regional, national, and international settings. She is coauthor of Maximum Mentoring: An Action Guide for Teacher Trainers and Cooperating Teachers. She enjoys serving as the chair of the Minnesota Teacher of the Year Program. In 2004, she received the University of Minnesota, Morris, Alumni Teaching Award.

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TitleEvery Teacher′s Guide to Working With Parents
AuthorGwen L. Rudney
PublisherCorwin Press, 2005
ISBN1452236798, 9781452236797
Length128 pages
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