Dealing with Difficult Parents: Powerful Strategies for Parent/Teacher Interactions

ISBN-10: 0984670610
ISBN-13: 9780984670611
Series: Dealing with Difficult Parents
Language: English
Published: 2008-01-01
Author: Brittingham Professional Development Seminars

Description

Classroom teachers have discovered that in order to survive in teaching, they need parent management skills in addition to classroom management skills. The majority of parents are supportive, helpful and realistic. However, there are a few that can be unreasonable, demanding and even threatening towards teachers.No single strategy will work for all situations. Dealing With Difficult Parents will provide you with and array of strategies that will prove successful a great deal of the time. It will help you to understand what motivates the difficult parent and to discover the keys to finding common ground.This book will provide the skills to disarm parents' emotionally charged behavior, while controlling your own emotions. Become skilled at working with challenging parents in challenging situations.