Blogs Before parent-teacher conferences start appearing on the calendar, lay the communication foundation for your classroom and start helping yourself and your students! This month learn how to establish positive and constructive parent/guardian relationships by focusing on parent-teacher communication throughout the year. From pro-engagement approaches to strategies that foster participation, we’ve compiled top resources for fine-tuning your classroom communication.
BLOGS | VIDEOS | PODCASTS | COURSES | RESOURCES
BLOGS
10 Tips for Teachers Communicating with Difficult Parents
—Learners Edge
Beyond Parent-Teacher Conferences: Building Connections That Last
— Lily Jones, Teaching Channel
Teachers Share Their Best Advice for Managing Parents, and We Could Cry With Gratitude
— Kelly Treleaven, We Are Teachers
Teacher-Parent Communication Strategies to Start the Year Off Right
— Paige Tutt, Edutopia
The Jackhammer Parents Are Here and They’re Destroying School
— Kelly Treleaven, We Are Teachers
PODCASTS
Teaching Channel Talks 46: Building Teacher-Family Relationships
—Teaching Channel Talks
Different Types of Parents All Teachers Meet
—Teachers Off Duty
How to Differentiate Parent Communication While Setting Healthy Boundaries (with Erika Walther)
—Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers
VIDEOS
9 Ways to Communicate with Parents for Teachers // INCREASE Parent Communication
— 21st Century Classroom, YouTube
Teacher and Parent Relationships — A Crucial Ingredient
— Cecille Carroll, TED Talk (TEDxWellsStreetED)
The ABC’s of Parent Involvement
—Teaching Channel
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES
Family Engagement and Parent Communication for Student Success
Course 130 | 10 Hr Professional Development | PK-12+
Are you looking for new ways to engage families or communicate with parents of students in your classroom? Do want to improve your teamwork with parents to maximize student outcomes? This course highlights the benefits of consistent and effective family engagement and parent communication and offers a treasure-trove of strategies and resources to help you tap into parent power for student success!
Engaging Parents for Student Success
Course 5844 | 3-Credit | PK-12+
Create intentional relationships to build rapport with parents while learning how to engage families in their student’s success. Discover pro-engagement strategies, ways to foster participation, and how to motivate parents, students, and community members to work as a team to ensure student achievement and learning. This course will explore strategies to help you establish positive, constructive relationships with the parents of your students, and ways to improve and focus on parent-teacher communication.
Parent Trap: Achieving Success with Difficult Parents & Difficult Situations
Course 859 | 3-Credit | K-12+
This course explores strategies to help you establish positive, constructive relationships with the parents of your students while helping you work with even the most difficult parents in the most challenging situations. You will learn how to avoid “trigger” words, how to use the “right” words to develop more positive relationships, and how to deal with parents who accuse you of not being “fair.”
OTHER RESOURCES
Never-Ending Random Acts of Gratitude Giveaway
Learn More and Enter to Win at LearnersEdge.com
With Never-Ending Random Acts of Gratitude, Learners Edge will randomly select one teacher every month to win a $250 gift card for self-care, simply because we know that teaching is selfless and heroic. Winners can use the $250 however they wish. Self-care is what you say it is!
