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Involving Parents of Students With Special Needs
25 Ready-to-Use Strategies
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Leadership & Management | Special & Inclusive Education | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
Leadership & Management | Special & Inclusive Education | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
June 2008 | 192 pages | Corwin
This resource offers a unique, teacher-friendly collection of ready-to-use techniques for involving the parents of students with special needs in the education of their children. Jill Dardig provides detailed descriptions of 25 parent communication and involvement strategies, each followed by models or templates appropriate for implementing the strategy at the pre-school, primary and secondary levels. Mainstream and special education teachers can select a strategy, choose the model that most closely resembles their teaching situation, adapt the strategy or use it as is, and immediately put it into practice. The models are appropriate for all types of settings, including self-contained classes, resource rooms, and full- or partial-inclusion classrooms.
Special Feature Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
3. Designing Your Classroom to Educate Parents
4. Group Written Communication and Interaction
5. Personalized Written Communication and Interaction
6. Telephone Communication
7. In-Person Meetings
8. Helping Parents Teach Their Children at Home
9. Challenges to Parent Involvement
10. Staying Organized and Planning for Next Year
References
Index
"This book makes a great contribution to the field of not only special education, but also general education. Teachers across specialties will find these strategies helpful for facilitating communication with parents and caregivers."
Tea Area Elementary School, SD
"Involving parents on a positive level is essential to educating all students, especially students with special needs. This book helps you with real-world situations—something that most college courses cannot prepare you for. Easy and user-friendly, this book provides you with strategies and tools to aid in communicating with parents."
Center School, Stow, MA
GREAT book. Hands-on Activities are useful and applicable.
Education Dept, Ohio State University - Newark
October 17, 2012