Parents & Teachers Working Together

Parents & Teachers Working Together

Author: Carol Davis

Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Incorporated

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781892989154

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Provides advice for elementary teachers on collaborating with parents to enhance a child's educational experience.


Families + Educators

Families + Educators

Author: Kelly Ramsey

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781938113451

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Learn how to work with and relate to the family of each child in an early childhood education program. Includes ideas about transforming the way schools and programs relate to families - each one according to their unique assets and needs with the goal of enriching and enlivening the school community and ensuring better outcomes for each child and the entire program. It will emphasize strategies for getting to know each family the way you get to know an individual person, and learn about their interests, their strengths, their style of interacting and their needs/challenges to encourage programs to move away from one-size-fits-all approaches to family engagement.


Powerful Interactions

Powerful Interactions

Author: Amy Laura Dombro

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781938113727

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Make your everyday interactions with children intentional and purposeful with these steps: Be Present, Connect, and Extend Learning.


School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

Author: Joyce L. Epstein

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1483320014

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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.


Becoming Brilliant

Becoming Brilliant

Author: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Publisher: American Psychological Association

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1433822407

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In just a few years, today’s children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that “content is king,” neglecting other skills that 21st century citizens sorely need. Becoming Brilliant offers solutions that parents can implement right now. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and illustrated with examples of what’s being done right in schools today, this book introduces the 6Cs—collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence—along with ways parents can nurture their children’s development in each area.


Dealing with Difficult Teachers

Dealing with Difficult Teachers

Author: Todd Whitaker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317820738

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This book provides tips and strategies to help school leaders improve, neutralize, or eliminate resistant and negative teachers. Learn how to handle staff members who gossip in the teacher's lounge, consistently say "it won't work" when any new idea is suggested, send an excessive number of student to your office for disciplinary reasons, undermine your efforts toward school improvement, or negatively influence other staff members. Don’t miss the revised and expanded third edition of this best-seller!


Communication for Teachers

Communication for Teachers

Author: Joseph L. Chesebro

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a synthesis of important research on communication instruction and builds on that by discussing how beginning teachers can apply the information to their own teaching. With eleven chapters written or co-written by some of the most prolific instructional communication researchers, this book provides diverse viewpoints and perspectives on a wide range of topics that impact teachers' communication with students in a classroom setting. For beginning teachers at all grade levels.


Teachers and Families Working Together

Teachers and Families Working Together

Author: Deborah Diffily

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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"Teachers and Families Working Together" is a concise resource that provides future teachers with exactly what they need to know when working with the families of young children. Chapters detail the benefits of family involvement for families, teachers, and especially children. Using the voices of many family members and teachers, this book describes diverse family types and cultures and gives specific strategies teachers can use to involve family members and the community in the life of a class or school. The family involvement strategies are divided into written communication, shared time, and other ways to involve families. Strategies are practical and are based on the experiences of early childhood educators. Features that this text offers: First section looks at family involvement from three different perspectives, -those of experts, families, and teachers. The barriers to family involvement from the perspectives of families and teachers are examined. Different ways of working with families -such as written communications, shared time with families, and working through differences between teachers and families are detailed. Fourth section shares closing thoughts and solutions about work with families. Pedagogy to support student learning includes: Voices of Teachers, Voices of Families, Case Studies, Suggested Reflections, Field Experiences, and Website Resources. Author Bio: Deborah Diffily is an assistant professor of early childhood education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her research interests include project-based learning, children's literacy and scientific development, and working with families. She coauthored "Teaching Young Children" with Margaret Puckett and "Project-Based Learning with Young Children" with Charlotte Sassman. "


The Learning Power Approach

The Learning Power Approach

Author: Guy Claxton

Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-01-26

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1785833103

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In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students' learning muscles and develop their independence, initiative, determination, and love of learning. Foreword by Carol S. Dweck. Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge, and skills, but also the positive habits of mind that will better prepare students to flourish both in school and in later life. And as 'traditionalists' fight for rigour and knowledge, and 'progressives' defend the increasing focus on character and well-being, Guy Claxton's Learning Power Approach (LPA) brings resolution to this phoney and unnecessary war by offering teachers a win-win pedagogical formula that delivers good academic results while simultaneously turbocharging students' independence, initiative, and love of learning. In this groundbreaking book Guy distils fifteen years' experience with his influential Building Learning Power method to provide a set of design principles for strengthening students' learning muscles, and together with a wealth of practical strategies and the supporting evidence that underpins them details the small tweaks to daily practice that will help teachers attend more closely to the ways in which they can shape their students' learning dispositions and attitudes. Complemented by engaging and informative classroom examples of the LPA in action and drawing from research into the fields of mindset, metacognition, grit, and collaborative learning The Learning Power Approach describes in detail the suite of beliefs, values, attitudes, and habits of mind that go in to making up learning power, and offers a thorough explanation of what its intentions and guiding principles are. Furthermore, in order to help those who are just setting out on their LPA journey, Guy presents teachers with an attractive menu of customisable strategies and activities to choose from as they begin to embed the LPA principles into their own classroom culture, and also includes at the end of each chapter a Wondering section that serves to prompt reflection, conversation, and action among teachers. Suitable for teachers and leaders in all educational settings, The Learning Power Approach carefully lays the groundwork for a series of books to follow that are specifically tailored to primary teaching, secondary teaching, and school leadership.