How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Plain Crazy (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

How do you deal with high-maintenance parents who never seem happy with the job you are doing? Emotionally charged, often disgruntled, and occasionally abusive parents-sound familiar? The newly revised, Second Edition of Elaine McEwan's bestselling classic will help you manage your most difficult audience. It adds several new features and examples that will give you the confidence and skills you need to handle such situations, including: - over two dozen strategies-enhanced and updated-to defuse emotionally charged parents - an updated, easy-to-administer Healthy School Checklist-determine if your school's culture encourages parents or pushes them over the edge - 50 ways to build parental support for your school - 10 Goals-at-a-Glance to help keep your school-community relations on target - a built-in facilitator's guide-ideal for book groups and staff development, including energizers, suggestions for role-playing, think-alouds, and questions for reflection and discussion. Every educator will find invaluable strategies for handling angry and unresponsive parents and the critical issues that cause misunderstandings. Following McEwan's seven steps of effective problem-solving will help with quick solutions while creating a nurturing, healthy school environment. And, in today's schools, developing a supportive parent-community relationship is essential to everyone's success.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2005
First published:	November 2004
Authors:	Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4129-0443-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	1-4129-0443-9
Barcode:	9781412904438

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