Working to Resolve Attitudes and Behaviors

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2. What are helpful teacher attitudes when
encountering challenging parents?
 What are helpful teacher behaviors when working
with challenging parents?
 What are some common sources of tension
between teachers and parents?
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3. Distinguishing hostility from other issues
 Helpful teacher behaviors to defuse situations
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Remain calm
Acknowledge and accept anger
Express concerns constructively
Respect parents’ concerns
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4. Understand possible reasons
 Strategies to persevere with uninvolved parents
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5. Possible reasons for overinvolvement
 Strategies to work with over-involvement
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6. 
Late parents
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Lack of respect
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Releasing children
to noncustodial
or “under the
influence” parents
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End-of-day problems
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Asking for special
treatment
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Disagreement over
readiness
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Sick children
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8. Teachers have a responsibility to persist when
faced with challenging parental attitudes and
behaviors.
 Hostility, under-involvement, and overinvolvement all have causes and helpful
responses.
 There are appropriate responses to frequent
causes of parent-teacher tension.
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