A Teacher’s Survival Guide for Dealing with Difficult Parents

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A Teacher’s Survival Guide for Dealing with Difficult Parents
3 In-service Credits/ 45 Hours Instructor: J. McLachlan October 1-30, November 1-30, December 1-30, March 1-30, May 1-30, July 1-30, August 1-30

Parent and teacher communication is the key to student success. Dealing with hard to work with parents can put a damper on the school year in addition to unwanted stress physical and emotional stress that comes with these experiences. Participants will explore conflict resolution techniques, communication exercises and parent-teacher relationship building strategies through a series of activities and mock scenarios that will help understand multiple viewpoints and find common ground with the difficult parent.  This course help educators to connect to parents in the areas of ELA, Social Studies, Math, Science, LOTE, ESL, Special Education, Occupational and Physical Therapists, Guidance Counselors, the Arts, and Physical Education, N-12 develop and grow professionally by the end of this course.