| How to Handle Hard-To-Handle Parents Contributor(s): Appelbaum, Maryln S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1412964415 ISBN-13: 9781412964418 Publisher: Corwin Publishers OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: When parents feel welcomed, cared about, and valued, everyone benefits. This is a must-have resource to help all educators communicate effectively and establish good relationships with all parents, particularly those who are difficult to handle. Readers will learn about: Parents of all backgroundsThe characteristics of difficult peopleDealing with parents in difficult situationsListening so that parents will talk to youConducting superior parent conferencesGetting parents to follow through at homeHandling the "Know It All," "Blamer," "Helicopter," and othersForming successful partnerships with parentsHow to Handle Hard-to-Handle Parents and Create a Parent-Friendly School includes sample forms and letters that educators can use to create positive relationships, many scenarios and vignettes, and tips and techniques for establishing relationships with families whose first language is not English. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Education | Special Education - General - Education | Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten) - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving |
| Dewey: 371.192 |
| LCCN: 2009010948 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 9.8" W x 6.9" (0.55 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Discover strategies for positive partnering with all parents--even the difficult ones!
Creating successful relationships with all parents, including the most hard-to-handle ones, can be challenging for any educator. This book provides sample forms, letters, scenarios, and vignettes, plus techniques for involving families whose first language is not English. Readers will learn about:
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Contributor Bio(s): Appelbaum, Maryln S.: - Maryln Appelbaum is well-known internationally as an outstanding authority on children, education, and families. She has worked as a teacher, an administrator, and a therapist and has been a consultant throughout the United States. She has written more than 30 how-to books geared exclusively for educators and parents. She has been interviewed on television and radio talks shows and has been quoted in newspapers including USA Today. She owns a seminar training company, Appelbaum Training Institute, with her son, Marty Appelbaum, and they and their speakers train educators all over the world. She has master's degrees in both psychology and education and completed her doctoral studies in both education and psychology. Appelbaum's influence impacts the entire globe with her thoughts for the day that go out to thousands of educators via e-mail daily. Her strategies have been implemented in schools across the world successfully. There is not a day that goes by that someone does not contact her at Appelbaum Training Institute to tell her "thank you." Those "thank you's" come from teachers, administrators, parents, and students whose lives have been impacted by Maryln. Appelbaum's books and her talks are always packed with strategies for success. She is a positive, motivational, dynamic, caring, one-of-a-kind difference maker for the world. |
