You ll get information on forming positive alliances with colleagues and parents. You ll study the skills you need to help poeple resolve conflicts effectively. And you ll learn how to inspire your students by drawing forth their potential. What's been missing from collaborative efforts to prepare students for the work world are effective tools that educators and parents can use with upper elementary and middle school students. Also includes an appendix of specific strategies that will help you move parent involvement from ideas to action.
Many students feel that science is their most boring, difficult, and irrelevant subject.
You'll discover her strategies for altering the classroom environment to make science exciting, accessible, and relevant, and you'll learn how to inolve parents and peers in the process. You'll find several types of conference situations with vignettes that illustrate the concerns teachers and parents may have, as well as possible solutions to make the experience an effective, successful one. Led by a charismatic and feisty principal, teachers embrace parents and shun bureaucracy. In their never-ending battle to meet the needs of the less fortunate children they serve, the staff at Teachers Memorial Elementary utilize unusual resources, barter with businesses, and form partnerships with social service providers. Staff are also aggressive in reaching out to involve parents in their children's education.