San Antonio College Library

Discusses how to heighten childrens' school achievement, describing how to evaluate the student's present level of achievement, determine parenting style, motivate a child's mind set to achievement, and identify the interests and needs of the student.

"The Deep Chasm Between what parents want education to provide for their children and what teachers must provide for entire classrooms is one of the most vexing problems facing our nation today. Making Our High Schools Better examines how the different perspectives of parents and teachers can be understood and negotiated to improve high schools. This book examines these diverging - and sometimes contradictory - perspectives, explains why parents and...

"This text uniquely provides comprehensive coverage of the history of parenting and parent/school collaboration, current issues and immigration trends affecting American schools and communities, diverse family structures, and many techniques that teaching professionals can use to engage family members of all children more completely as partners in education. Chapters on working with families of children with special needs and on child abuse are remarkable...

"Teachers as Collaborative Partners: Working With Diverse Families and Communities assists future and in-service teachers in developing a research-based framework for understanding the dynamics of school, family, and community relations. It provides foundational knowledge while exploring conditions that influence family-school-community interactions. The text is designed to engage the critical reflective capability of teachers in ways that will support...

This book helps teachers, principals, superintendents, and all educators develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. It shows you how to deal with the parent who is bossy, volatile, argumentative, aggressive, or maybe the worst--apathetic. It provides specific phrases to use with parents to help you avoid using "trigger" words which unintentionally make matters worse. It will show you how to deliver...

A practical guide to help parents and teachers develop the kind of motivation in children that makes acquiring knowledge a stimulating and exciting experience.

"The subject of this book is the nature of schooling and its links with the surrounding social institutions of family, occupations, and politics. The primary purpose of the book is to show the relationship between school structure and learning outcomes, and the relevance of those outcomes to the surrounding institutions. The approach offers a new perspective that contrasts with the customary preoccupation with instruction as the core of the schooling...