I wish I would have read this book prior to my daughter attending elementary school! My daughter had the unfortunate experience of having a "bad" teacher for fourth grade - I felt it was me against our local educational system. I was up against a "valued" member of the staff, but unfortuately she did not know how to reach my daughter. She was labeled "unwilling to participate" or "not trying hard enough". I truely beleive I could have been more effective in any of the numerous conferences had I read this first. I knew from the onset of the problems that my daughter's learning style did not coincide with the teacher's teaching style. But as a parent, how do you turn this situation around and how do you approach this problem without creating a bigger one?? This is a handbook all parents should read if they are having difficultly with a teacher.
Guy Strickland gives straight forward advice on how to maneveur through conferences to actually obtain useful information. The book is full of practical situations that every parent could use advice.
As Guy points out in the first part of the book, Poor schoolwork is not the problem - only a symptom. But as most parents don't know, how do you constructively work with the educational system to find the true problem? It is too often blamed upon the child when in fact, the child is not the problem!
Надо сказать, что я пока эффективно справляюсь с местной образовательной системой. У моего ребёнка были проблемы со школой, но они все были быстро и пряитно решены после моего вмешательства. Но, надо сказать, у нас тут школы очень хорошие, так что может дело не во мне. * То есть мне лично как родителю пока непонятно, зачем. Но как образователь, я бы взглянула. Мало ли. Может что интересное найду.
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I wish I would have read this book prior to my daughter attending elementary school! My daughter had the unfortunate experience of having a "bad" teacher for fourth grade - I felt it was me against our local educational system. I was up against a "valued" member of the staff, but unfortuately she did not know how to reach my daughter. She was labeled "unwilling to participate" or "not trying hard enough". I truely beleive I could have been more effective in any of the numerous conferences had I read this first. I knew from the onset of the problems that my daughter's learning style did not coincide with the teacher's teaching style. But as a parent, how do you turn this situation around and how do you approach this problem without creating a bigger one?? This is a handbook all parents should read if they are having difficultly with a teacher.
Guy Strickland gives straight forward advice on how to maneveur through conferences to actually obtain useful information. The book is full of practical situations that every parent could use advice.
As Guy points out in the first part of the book, Poor schoolwork is not the problem - only a symptom. But as most parents don't know, how do you constructively work with the educational system to find the true problem? It is too often blamed upon the child when in fact, the child is not the problem!
Надо сказать, что я пока эффективно справляюсь с местной образовательной системой. У моего ребёнка были проблемы со школой, но они все были быстро и пряитно решены после моего вмешательства. Но, надо сказать, у нас тут школы очень хорошие, так что может дело не во мне.
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То есть мне лично как родителю пока непонятно, зачем.
Но как образователь, я бы взглянула. Мало ли. Может что интересное найду.