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Case: New teacher, New school A fairly novice teacher, teaching 2 years, moves to a new state and maintains a job over a phone interview. This teacher a young middle class female is placed in a school with a high African American student body. The students at this school come from homes with one parent. There are cases of drug use in the house, boyfriends in and out of the home and very absent parents when it came to the school. When the mothers did come to the school it was usually a hostile situation and most of the time the parent was yelling at this young teacher. The teacher knew that it was not at all the fault of the child and wanted to send a message to the parents that she wanted to partner with the parents for the sake of their shared student. How would the teacher reach that goal? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) That sounds like a lot of new teachers that come to the high school in my district. My first advice it to try and get some thin skin. Parents are not nice a lot of times. It seems like they have had to fight all their lives, and do not want or do not know how to stop now. The positive contacts really does work. I have a student in my class who used to always get in trouble. My first contact with her was to talk about him being disrespectful. The next I called her to tell her he was getting better and had an awesome day. She said,"Wow, that is great, I thought he was in trouble again." She told me she was scared to answer the phone because she didn't want to deal with him getting in trouble. She told me to call her anytime because she would be scared to answer. We now have a great teacher-parent relationship. They really do work. |
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