Teacher Relationships to Parents

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This paper discusses the important task that teachers face of establishing and maintaining positive relationships with the parents of their students. The paper identifies five types of parents and discusses how the teacher should relate to them in order to establish a positive relationship. The paper also discusses the school administrator's role in dealing with parents.

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"This kind of organization and cooperation, ultimately, is not just in the hands of the parents or school teaching staff; rather, the energy for this kind of involvement has to be generated initially within the school's administration structure. After all, all in-house planning proposals and activities must eventually run through the front office anyway, so it makes good power-structure sense that big ideas about creative, productive coalitions with parents involved should have their genesis and momentum in the administration itself."
"That is not to say teachers and staff and parents shouldn't generate good, workable ideas; but, when those ideas are presented to the principal and vice principals, immediate response and better yet, action, should be the guiding theme regarding those ideas and proposals."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Beaudoin, Nelson. (2006). Giving Stakeholders a Voice. Educational Leadership, 63(8), 74-75.
• Flannery, Mary Ellen. (2005). A field guide to parents: famed for its vast appetite for information And ability to protect its offspring, the parent genus has nonetheless eluded scientific study. Until now. NEA Today, 24(2), 36-38.
• Graseck, Paul. (2005). Where's the Ministry in Administration? Attending to the Souls of Our Schools. Phi Delta Kappan, 373-378.
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• Vogel, Carl. (2006). Building a Strong Community Partnership: when it comes to creating Effective school-family-community partnerships, take some advice from veteran districts. District Administration, June 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2006, from http://www.districtadministration.com.

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