Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         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!) The teacher can reach this goal by having a nice sit down talk with the parent and explain to her that you really have her child's best interest as she should also. Also the principle should be present to express the importance of this conference.