ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

PART I: TODAY’S PARENTS

chapter 2|12 pages

WHO ARE THESE GUYS? DESCRIBING TODAY’S PARENTS

ESCRIBING

chapter 3|12 pages

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE PARENTS ANYWAY?

part |2 pages

PART II: COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS

part |2 pages

PART III DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PARENTS: S SAVAGE BEAST

chapter 7|10 pages

NEVER LET ‘EM SEE YOU SWEAT

chapter 8|8 pages

WHAT IF THE PARENT IS RIGHT?

IF THE

chapter 9|6 pages

THE BEST WAY TO GET IN THE LAST WORD…

chapter 10|8 pages

DO YOU FEEL DEFENSIVE? IF SO, SOMETHING IS WRONG

OMETHING

part |2 pages

PART IV DEALING WITH PARENTS IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS

part |2 pages

PART V: INCREASING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

chapter 15|10 pages

UNDERSTANDING PARENT INVOLVEMENT

chapter 16|18 pages

INCREASING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT WITH SCHOOL

chapter 17|12 pages

INCREASING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AT HOME