Robert Ward

A Teacher's Inside Advice to Parents (eBook, PDF)

How Children Thrive with Leadership, Love, Laughter, and Learning

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Maximize your child's potential in ways that extend beyond academics alone. Gain a clearer, more cohesive relationship with their teachers. A Teacher's Inside Advice to Parents: How Children Thrive with Leadership, Love, Laughter, and Learning explains how to support and inspire all kids towards success and satisfaction. When parents and teachers share common goals and methods to meet a child's essential needs, this wraparound effect flows seamlessly from home to school and back again. This affirming, practical parenting approach provides expert insight for connecting with the classroom and influencing your child in four fundamental aspects: Leadership supplies the appropriate guidelines and routines your child requires in order to feel a soothing sense of security, structure, and stability. Love offers the attention, encouragement, and acceptance that create a strong bond of trust and open communication between you and your child. Laughter adds the joy, excitement, and adventure that embolden and assist in your child's personal exploration of creativity, purpose, and direction.Learning develops and reinforces your child's knowledge, wisdom, and skills vital for a contributing, self-sufficient life. The Four Ls of Parenting directly lead to the cooperation, confidence, contentment, and capabilities parents and teachers both strive to foster in every child-all accomplished with increased efficacy and delight while nurturing and educating the kids they care about so deeply.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216294269
• Artikelnr.: 74396765

Autorenporträt

Robert Ward is a dedicated educator and champion of children who has taught English in public middle schools in Los Angeles for over twenty years. He is also the author of The Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator: Inspire Your Students, Engage Your Class, Transform Your Teaching, as well as its companion workbook, The Teacher Tune-Up.

For more information, visit www.rewardingeducation.com

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface: The Powerful Influence of Parents and Teachers in Partnership
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Capitalizing on Commonality while Honoring Individuality
Part 1: Gaining Perspective
Chapter 1: Motivation is Always the Answer
Chapter 2: The Parent's Perspective
Chapter 3: The Teacher's Perspective
Chapter 4: The Child's Perspective
Chapter 5: The Public's Perspective
Chapter 6: The Concerns of Parents and Their Children
Chapter 7: The Concerns of Teachers and Their Students
Part 2: Achieving Proportion
Chapter 8: Avoiding Extremes, Insufficiencies, and Inconsistencies
Chapter 9: Addressing Extreme Behavior in Children
Chapter 10: Diffusing Conflicts between Parents and Teachers
Chapter 11: Straight Talk from the Teaching Trenches
Chapter 12: Achieving Balance
Part 3: Finding Answers by Asking the Right Questions
Chapter 13: Determining What is Really Going on Behind the Classroom Door
Chapter 14: Communicating with Teachers
Chapter 15: Looking Inward
Afterword: Looking Forward
About the Author