Dealing with Difficult Parents
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Classroom teachers have discovered that in order to survive in teaching, they need parent management skills in addition to classroom management skills. The majority of parents are supportive, helpful and realistic. However, there are a few that can be unreasonable, demanding and even threatening towards teachers.
No single strategy will work for all situations. Dealing with Difficult Parents will provide you with an array of strategies that will prove successful a great deal of the time. It will help you to understand what motivates the difficult parent and to discover the keys to finding common ground.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Assessing Your Parent Contacts
- Developing a Positive Attitude Toward Parents
- Educator’s Obstacles
- Parent Obstacles
- Reasons Parents May Get Angry
- Parent Styles
- When Under Attack
- Disarm Criticism
- Refocus Comments
- Positive Communication
- Positive Call Tracker
- Your Own Child Test
- Documentation
- Steps to Making an Initial Phone Call
- Worksheet for Initial Phone Call
- Conflict Cycle
- Perceptions
- What is Anger?
- What is Under Anger?
- Effective Listening Skills
- Develop Your Communication Skills
- Practice Validating
- More Tips on Becoming a Better Listener
- Dirty Dozen
- Tips to Remember
- Things to Do During a Parent Conference
- Things Not to Do
- Problem Solving Conference Sheet
- Parent Conference Record
- How to End a Conference
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