1st Edition

Study Guide to Dealing with Difficult Parents

By Todd Whitaker, Douglas J. Fiore Copyright 2016
    78 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    78 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    This Study Guide provides a variety of thought-provoking questions and activities to help you implement the concepts in the bestselling book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition. For each chapter of the book, the Study Guide offers discussion questions, journal prompts, and group activities. You can work on these sections independently, in book studies, in professional learning communities (PLCs), in mentor sessions, and in professional development sessions.

    As you work through this Study Guide, you’ll learn how to make the book’s strategies work for you, so that you can more effectively deal with parents in all kinds of challenging situations and help them get on your side to ensure students’ success.

    Introduction

    Part One

    1. Dealing with Difficult Parents: An Overview

    2. Who Are These Guys?: Describing Today’s Parents

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    38 Years of Teaching Fifth Grade

    It’s Not What You Do, It’s How You Do It

    Application

    3. What’s Wrong with These Parents Anyhow?

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Titles Really Make A Difference!

    Creating Convenient Models

    Application

    Part Two

    4. Building Credibility: Everyone Wants to Associate with a Winner

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    All the News That’s Fit to Print

    Calling All Parents

    Application

    5. Taking Your Classroom Social

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Accentuate the Positive!

    Things to Consider

    Application

    6. Positive Communication with Parents: An Ounce of Prevention

    7. Listen, Learn, and Cultivate

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Creating a Positive Referral Program

    A Welcoming Environmental Audit

    Application

    Part Three

    8. Initiating Contact with parents

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Acting It Out

    Communicating with Parents

    Application

    9. Never Let ‘Em See You Sweat

    10. What if the Parent is Right?

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    The Sorry Actors

    ATTENTION

    Application

    11. The Best Way to Get in the Last Word…

    12. Do You Feel Defensive? If So, Something is Wrong

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Circle of Bad News

    A Sign of the Times

    Application

    13. Delivering Bad News

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    The Legal Eagle

    A Bad News Triangle

    Application

    14. But I Did Get a Good Deal: Examining the Car Salesman

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    I Really Did Get a Good Deal

    Acting It Out

    Application

    15. What if They Use the F Word – Fair?

    16. Focus on the Future

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Working with Mr. Johnson

    Using the "F" Word

    Application

    17. Understanding Parent Involvement

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Comparing Parents

    Dealing with Difficult Parents

    Application

    18. Increasing Parent Involvement at School

    19. Increasing Parent Involvement at Home

    Key Concepts

    Discussion Questions

    Journal Prompt

    Group Activities

    Clarifying Your Parent Core

    HOME work

    Application

    Biography

    Todd Whitaker is a professor of educational leadership at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is a leading presenter in the field of education and has written more than 30 books, including the national best seller, What Great Teachers Do Differently.



    Douglas J. Fiore is Dean of the Dwight Schar College of Education at Ashland University and is the author of numerous books, including the popular textbook School-Community Relations, Fourth Edition.