Full Description
This Study Guide provides a variety of thought-provoking questions and activities to help you implement the concepts in the bestselling book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition. For each chapter of the book, the Study Guide offers discussion questions, journal prompts, and group activities. You can work on these sections independently, in book studies, in professional learning communities (PLCs), in mentor sessions, and in professional development sessions.
As you work through this Study Guide, you'll learn how to make the book's strategies work for you, so that you can more effectively deal with parents in all kinds of challenging situations and help them get on your side to ensure students success.
Contents
Introduction
Part One
1. Dealing with Difficult Parents: An Overview
2. Who Are These Guys?: Describing Today's Parents
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
38 Years of Teaching Fifth Grade
It's Not What You Do, It's How You Do It
Application
3. What's Wrong with These Parents Anyhow?
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
Titles Really Make A Difference!
Creating Convenient Models
Application
Part Two
4. Building Credibility: Everyone Wants to Associate with a Winner
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
All the News That's Fit to Print
Calling All Parents
Application
5. Taking Your Classroom Social
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
Accentuate the Positive!
Things to Consider
Application
6. Positive Communication with Parents: An Ounce of Prevention
7. Listen, Learn, and Cultivate
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
Creating a Positive Referral Program
A Welcoming Environmental Audit
Application
Part Three
8. Initiating Contact with parents
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
Acting It Out
Communicating with Parents
Application
9. Never Let 'Em See You Sweat
10. What if the Parent is Right?
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
The Sorry Actors
ATTENTION
Application
11. The Best Way to Get in the Last Word...
12. Do You Feel Defensive? If So, Something is Wrong
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
Circle of Bad News
A Sign of the Times
Application
13. Delivering Bad News
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
The Legal Eagle
A Bad News Triangle
Application
14. But I Did Get a Good Deal: Examining the Car Salesman
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
I Really Did Get a Good Deal
Acting It Out
Application
15. What if They Use the F Word - Fair?
16. Focus on the Future
Key Concepts
Discussion Questions
Journal Prompt
Group Activities
Working with Mr. Johnson
Using the F Word
Application
17. Understanding Parent Involvement
Key Concepts
