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Strategies for working with parents of all kinds Unexpected situations with angry or dysfunctional parents can leave teachers floundering. This teachers’ edition of the best-selling
How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Seem Crazy provides invaluable strategies that teachers can use to defuse angry parents and to work with all parents to advance the success of their children. It includes:
• A set of proactive practices to help teachers get parents on their side.
• Guidelines for teachers to follow when meeting with parents during Annual Reviews and IEP meetings.
• Advice and vignettes that reflect concerns of today’s teachers.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. Why Are There So Many Angry Parents?
Facet 1: The Increasing Variety of Today's Family Units
Facet 2: The Range of Needs, Issues, and Problems of Today's Students
Facet 3: A Continuum of Types of Schools
Facet 4: The Things Teachers Do That Irritate and Inflame Parents
Facet 5: A Variety of Types of Parents
Chapter 2. Proactive Ways to Get and Keep Parents on Your Side
Chapter 3. Defusing and Disarming Out-of-Control Parents
What Is Anger?
How to Deal With Angry Parents
How to Deal With Very Dysfunctional Parents
Using Your Encounters With Parents to Learn and Grow
Chapter 4. Solving the Problems That Make Parents Angry, Troubled, Afraid, and Seem Even Crazier
The Pervasive Problems That Will Plague You
Solving the Problems That Plague You
Chapter 5. Advice From Teachers Who Have Seen It All
Chapter 6. Putting Your Best Self Forward
Pay Attention to Your "Emotional Immune System"
Nurture Your Best Self Around a Set of Personal Traits That Signify Character
Affirm, Bridge, Communicate (ABC)
Lead by Example
Conduct an Assertive Intervention
Take the A Train
Deposit Trust in Your Relationship Trust and Savings Bank
Become an Assertive and Self-Differentiated Teacher
Tend to Your Health
One at a Time or All at Once
Conclusion: 10 Goals to Help You Deal With Difficult Parents
References
Index
About the author
Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What’s Good, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001).
McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University.
