Dealing with Difficult Parents: (and with Parents in Difficult Situations)This book helps teachers, principals, superintendents, and all educators develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. It shows you how to deal with the parent who is bossy, volatile, argumentative, aggressive, or maybe the worst - apathetic. It provides specific phrases to use with parents to help you avoid using "trigger" words which unintentionally make matters worse. It will show you how to deliver bad news to good parents, how to build positive credibility to all types of parents, and how to foster the kind of parent involvement which leads to student success. |
Contents
WHO ARE THESE GUYS? DESCRIBING | 13 |
Typical Behaviors of Some of Our Parents | 21 |
COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS | 37 |
POSITIVE COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS | 49 |
You Never Get a Second Chance | 62 |
There is a Time and a Place for All Conversations | 70 |
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WHAT IF THE PARENT IS RIGHT? | 80 |
DEALING WITH PARENTS | 107 |
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BUT I DID GET A GOOD DEALEXAMINING | 123 |
WHAT IF THEY USE THE F WORDFAIR? | 135 |
FOCUS ON THE FUTURE | 142 |
INCREASING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT | 151 |
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Obstacles to Involving Parents at School | 178 |
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Dealing with Difficult Parents: And with Parents in Difficult Situations Todd Whitaker,Douglas Fiore No preview available - 2015 |
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