Parent+Communication

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[|Parent- teacher-student conferences.docx]

[|How Can You Deal With Angry Parents.docx]

[|Email and permissions.pdf]

[|Working Well with Parents.docx]

[|Please Help Me Get To Know Your Child.pdf]

[] This website links to 5 other articles that are beneficial in communicating with parents and maintaining parent-teacher relationships during the school year. A great article is 9 tips for building solid parent-teacher relationship; these tips include sending out parent surveys, calling with good news about their child, utilize technology by creating a website, establish an open door policy and be flexible when meeting with parents. The other articles also examine ways to involve students in parent-teacher conferences and keeping HIGH SCHOOL parents involved and informed.

[] This website has a multitude of tips for teachers about how to keep parents involved from the parents point of view! Parents have provided pages of tips for keeping parents involved by doing things such as sending weekly newsletters, having parents sign their child's homework each night, and weekly email updates. Some of the ideas are old ones we have heard but others are new and inventive. It is updated quite frequently and is a great resource for new ideas.

[] This articles describes the "helicopter" parents and what we can do as teachers. The article gives great and advice for how to deal with these parents who are over-involved in their child's school life. It gives examples of some types of parents and also tips for how to work with these parents and also maintain your position as the professional educator