Professional » Best Practices
Browse best practices
Results for family involvement
Records 1–11 of 11 displayed.
Browsing options: find only text | images | audio | video more options: advanced search
- Communicating with parents
- To communicate successfully with parents, be caring, professional, open, and organized.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Communicating with parents at the beginning of the year
- In The First Year, page 1.3
- Start communicating with parents at the beginning of the year, to establish a relationship before you have anything negative to say.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.
- The First Year
- Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Helping parents understand
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 5
- The more ongoing, positive communication you have with parents, the more they'll be willing to work with you.
- Format: article
- By Gretchen Buher.
- If he's in danger of failing, at least three people need to know it
- In The First Year, page 4.1
- Get in touch with parents to prevent students' failure, not just to report on it.
- Format: article
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.Commentary and sidebar notes by Lindy Norman.
- Inclusion strategies for students with autism spectrum disorders
- In Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice, page 6
- This article discusses the characteristics of a variety of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and shares concrete strategies for increasing motivation, communication, and academic success in students with ASD.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Susan Flynn.
- Keep parents in the loop with a class website
- This article discusses the process of creating a website to keep your students' parents apprised of what's happening in your classroom. The author discusses a variety of tools, including blogs, wikis, Google sites, and paid hosting websites, and suggests elements to include in a useful website.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Rebeccah Haines.
- Math for multiple intelligences
- How a middle-school math teacher realized she was boring and jump-started her career — and her students — by using thematic planning, emphasizing problem solving, and teaching to multiple intelligences.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Reaching every learner: Differentiating instruction in theory and practice
- This series of articles, which balance theory, research, and practice, address a variety of topics within differentiation through text, graphics, and video.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Science Family Fun Night
- One night a month Vivian Smith opens her classroom to families where they work together to solve logic problems and conduct experiments. Learn how this science teacher increases family involvement in her students' education and find ideas for science experiments, webquests, projects, and construction contests.
- By Waverly Harrell.
- Tips for parent conferences
- Basic suggestions and points to keep in mind when meeting with parents.
- By Mitch Katz.
