How to Handle Difficult Parents: Proven Solutions for Teachers

by Suzanne Capek Tingley, Suzanne Tingley

Overview

How to Handle Difficult Parents is a funny, but practical, guide to working effectively with parents and avoiding unnecessary conflict. Whether you're a teacher (regular or special education) or a coach, this book will give you practical suggestions regarding what to say and how to say it to parents who question your lesson plans, challenge your disciplinary decisions, or threaten to tell the principal on you. Bringing years of experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and professor, the author shows teachers how to handle the most difficult parent types, including the Helicopter Mom, the Caped Crusader, Ms. "Quit Picking on My Kid," The Intimidator, No Show's Dad, and Pinocchio's Mom, among others. Emphasizing ways to help create constructive conversation, this revised edition of How to Handle Difficult Parents is a must-have for teachers everywhere, both those just beginning and those already deep in the trenches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593639587
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Author Suzanne Capek Tingley has been a teacher, a principal, a superintendent, and an adjunct professor in education administration for the State University of New York at Oswego. She currently works as an educational consultant and freelance writer. She has done many workshops on dealing with difficult people for teachers, administrators, and office professionals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Dealing With Parents 101 1

Chapter 2 A Short and Subjective History of Parents 5

Chapter 3 The Acorn May Not Fall Far From the Oak 19

Chapter 4 Pinocchio's Mom 23

Chapter 5 Caped Crusader 31

Chapter 6 Ms. "Quit Picking on My Kid" 41

Chapter 7 The Intimidator 53

Chapter 8 The Stealth Zapper 59

Chapter 9 The Uncivil Libertarian 67

Chapter 10 Mr. NBA 75

Chapter 11 No Show's Dad 81

Chapter 12 The Advocate 89

Chapter 13 Helicopter Mom 95

Chapter 14 The Competitor 105

Chapter 15 Who's the Fairest of Them All? 113

Chapter 16 Tips for Effective Parent Conferences 119

Chapter 17 When Nothing Works 125

Chapter 18 A Final Assessment 129

References 139

About the Author 141

Editorial Reviews

How to Handle Difficult Parents: Proven Solutions for Teachers is a practical, discplined, organized reponse to the need for teachers to develop special coping skills to deal with many varieties of Difficult Parents., James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review, 8/21/12

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