
How to Handle Difficult Parents
Proven Solutions for Teachers
- 152 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
How to Handle Difficult Parents is a funny, but practical, guide to working effectively with parents and avoiding unnecessary conflict. Whether you're a teacher (regular or special education) or a coach, this book will give you practical suggestions regarding what to say and how to say it to parents who question your lesson plans, challenge your disciplinary decisions, or threaten to tell the principal on you. Bringing years of experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and professor, the author shows teachers how to handle the most difficult parent types, including the Helicopter Mom, the Caped Crusader, Ms. "Quit Picking on My Kid," The Intimidator, No Show's Dad, and Pinocchio's Mom, among others. Emphasizing ways to help create constructive conversation, this revised edition of How to Handle Difficult Parents is a must-have for teachers everywhere, both those just beginning and those already deep in the trenches.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Dealing With Parents 101
- Chapter 2 A Short and Subjective History of Parents
- Chapter 3 The Acorn May Not Fall Far From the Oak
- Chapter 4 Pinocchio’s Mom
- Chapter 5 Caped Crusader
- Chapter 6 Ms. “Quit Picking on My Kid”
- Chapter 7 The Intimidator
- Chapter 8 The Stealth Zapper
- Chapter 9 The Uncivil Libertarian
- Chapter 10 Mr. NBA
- Chapter 11 No Show’s Dad
- Chapter 12 The Advocate
- Chapter 13 Helicopter Mom
- Chapter 14 The Competitor
- Chapter 15 Who’s the Fairest of Them All?
- Chapter 16 Tips for Effective Parent Conferences
- Chapter 17 When Nothing Works
- Chapter 18 A Final Assessment
- References
- About the Author