Teachers and Parents TogetherPractical ways to involve parents in school programs -- from ideas for bulletin boards, through suggested letters and procedures for parent interviews, open houses, newsletters, and surveys. Reproducible information sheets clarify key questions about everything from spelling to skills to report cards. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Basic Strategies | 21 |
Avenues of Communication | 37 |
School Matters | 60 |
Curriculum Matters | 74 |
Language Partners | 87 |
Information to Share With Parents | 114 |
Appendix | 144 |
| 154 | |
Common terms and phrases
activities adults appropriate audience basal readers chapter book classroom coeducational collaborative committee create curriculum dents develop discuss drama educators encourage ents evaluation example experiences Family Math favorite feel focus grade help parents help students help your child his/her home and school Home Reading programs homework Icebreaker ideas identify individual interaction interview invited issues Language Partners learning Learning Disabled letter listening materials mation meaningful meet newsletter opportunities P.D. days parent involvement parent volunteers parent/teacher parental support parents and children parents and teachers parents need picture book poem poetry positive positive parental potato problem solving promote Publisher questions readers recognize reflect report card responsibility role s/he School Team School-wide Themes shared shared parenting skills small groups spelling staff stage story strategies success talk teaching tion Twenty Questions understand values Venn Diagram Whole Language words workshop writing process
Popular passages
Page 154 - Parents' Reactions to Teacher Practices of Parent Involvement." Elementary School Journal. Vol. 86. January 1986, pp.