Exam Preparation

176 Ways to Involve Parents has realistic and ready-to-use ideas to help both teachers and administrators transform passive parents into eager educational partners. Readers learn new and innovative ways to sustain ongoing communication with parents, ideas for making parents feel welcome, strategies for getting parents involved in school governance, techniques for developing parent volunteer programs, and more.

Picky Parent Guide is packed with dozens of practical ways to improve every child’s school performance and every family’s satisfaction with its school choices. It contains a point-by-point discussion about how to discover each child’s unique set of learning strengths, challenges and styles as well as other capabilities, passions, social needs and other factors important for choosing the right school. The book helps parents address their own values about curriculum content, disciplinary methods, parental involvement as well as practical matters like transportation, scheduling, and money.

Gain the upper hand on your first day of school. Written by the Coordinator of Preparation for the American Board, this friendly guide reveals what they don't teach you in education classes, offering practical advice and tons of real-life examples to help you set up and maintain an orderly classroom, engage your students, establish a grading system, and develop positive relationships with parents and school administrators. Furthermore, the book addresses issues for both elementary and secondary teachers, rather than just one group, as is typical of contemporary teacher instruction texts.