Leveraging Parental Engagement: The 3-Step System For Teachers

By Yvonne Chimwaza

Two of the most invested stakeholders in a child's life are their teachers and parents. However, many times the two groups do not leverage each other. This book is about the steps teachers can take to build strong relationships with their students' parents. In this book I will reveal the biggest myths surrounding parental involvement in their ch

• Language: English
• Publisher: For Arrows Learning
• Release date: Mar 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798987807255

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Leveraging Parental Engagement:

The 3-Step System

For Teachers

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2

MYTHS ABOUT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

CHAPTER 3

THE 3-STEP SYSTEM

CHAPTER 4

NURTURING SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARENTS

CHAPTER 5

ROADBLOCKS TO STRONG PARENT-TEACHER RELATIONSHIPS

APPENDIX

INTRODUCTION

I remember marching as a new teacher into my first assignment as a sixth-grade math teacher, full of enthusiasm and zeal. I was going to change the world, one student at a time! I was going to follow everything I had been taught. This would include not smiling until November, as the veteran teachers advised. I would be consistent with my rules, routines, and procedures. I would get every single last one of my sixth graders to fall in love with math by week two. Every parent, administrator, and other teacher would be amazed at the work I had done. Parents would move me to the top of their teacher Christmas list and send me thank you cards all the time, expressing their deep appreciation for what their child had learned in my class.

If you have taught for any length of time, you will be able to predict the outcome of my naïve, but well-intentioned goals. I failed miserably at the not-smiling thing, because smiling is my jam, and it was impossible to turn that off. I learned quickly that it was harder to be consistent with rules, routines, and procedures