The Parent-Teacher Partnership: How to Work Together for Student Achievement

by Scott Mandel

Overview

With the National PTA’s Standard for School-Family-Community Partnership as a framework, this guide offers advice for resolving common points of contention between parents and teachers, such as the most productive use of a parent–teacher conference, the best at-home environment for doing homework, the helpfulness of parental rewards for classroom performance, and a teacher’s role in supporting a student with an at-home crisis. This solution manual draws from real-world experiences of parents, teachers, and administrators to tackle issues of communication, parenting skills, classroom volunteering, and mutual respect.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781569762172
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	10.02(w) x 8.02(h) x 0.33(d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Scott Mandel has been an educator for more than 25 years and is the founder and developer of Teachers Helping Teachers, a website for educators. He is the author of Improving Test Scores and The New-Teacher Toolbox. He lives in Northridge, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vi
Introduction     vii
Communicating     1
Parenting     21
Student Learning     43
Volunteering     61
School Decision Making and Advocacy     79
Collaborating with Community     95
Respect     111
Bibliography     125
Index     127