parent/home and community support
The Teacher's Role in Home/School Communication: Everybody Wins
Lavoie (2008) found that successful, responsive and productive schools share one common trait: They solicit, encourage, facilitate and promote parental communication and gives the following advice...
Lavoie (2008) found that successful, responsive and productive schools share one common trait: They solicit, encourage, facilitate and promote parental communication and gives the following advice...
- Do create a partnership with parents
- Do be positive
- Do use the "communication sandwich" - Always begin and end your communication in a positive way with the problem or difficulty in the middle.
- Do remember…Before they care how much you know, they gotta know how much you care!
- Don't use jargon when communicating with parents
- Do encourage dialogue
- Do start (and continue) a monthly or bi-weekly classroom newsletter for parents
- Do send weekly work folders home
- Don't let situations fester
- Do handle conflicts effectively
- Don't be overly judgmental
- Don't attempt to defend the indefensible
- Do keep the "balance of power" equitable
- Do create a parent-friendly and welcoming environment in your classroom and throughout the school building
courses
5 part podcast series "Understanding your gifted child from the inside out".
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GERRIC parent courses at UNSW
books
websites
School A to Z (translatable into many community languages)
NSW association for Gifted and Talented Children
Parents of gifted children blog
http://www.gifted-children.com.au
National Association for Gifted Children (USA)
Underachievement Quiz
NSW association for Gifted and Talented Children
Parents of gifted children blog
http://www.gifted-children.com.au
National Association for Gifted Children (USA)
Underachievement Quiz