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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

Contents

• Describing Today's Parents
• What is Wrong With These Parents, Anyway?
• Building Credibility - Everyone Wants to Associate with a Winner
• Positive Communication with Parents - An Ounce of Prevention
• Listen, Learn, and Cultivate
• Never Let Them See You Sweat
• What if the Parent is Right?
• The Best Way to Get in the Last Word
• Do You Feel Defensive? If So, Something is Wrong
• Delivering Bad News - Hey, I'm Just the Messenger
• But, I Did Get a Good Deal . . . Examining the Car Salesman
• What if They Use the "F" Word . . . Fair?
• Focus on the Future
• Understanding Parental Involvement
• Increasing Parental Involvement with School

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This book focuses on basic strategies you can integrate into everyday instruction in every subject area and across grade levels. It shows teachers how to motivate and engage students.

The practical examples in this book make it easy for you to apply these strategies in your own classroom. It presents lively stories about how teachers help their students succeed. You’ll meet teachers of all types, from preschool to high school, and you’ll hear the voices of real students.

There are 26 chapters, one for each letter of the alphabet:
A. Achievement Is More Than a Test Score
B. Begin With the End in Mind
C. Catch Them Doing Something Good
D. Dealing With Diversity
E. Engagement Equals Success
F. Form Partnerships
G. Goals and Success
H. High Expectations for Everyone
I. It's All About Me (the Value of Intrinsic Motivation)
J. Jump to Conclusions (Don't)
K. Keys to Evaluation: Grading and Motivation
L. Literacy
M. Myths of Motivation
N. Never Give Permission
O. Owners, Not Renters
P. Perception is Reality
Q. Quantify Quality
R. Rigor is Not a Four-Letter Word
S. Scaffolding for Success
T. Track Progress, Not Students
U. Understanding at High Levels
V. Variety Is the Spice of Life
W. What You See Is What You Get
X. X-Factor
Y. You Are the Key
Z. On Beyond Zebra (208 pp., 2005)

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