The greatest barrier for student success lies between teacher-parent communication. Ultimately, many teachers instantly claim the lack of parental involvement as a deficiency which hinders positive reinforcement. Susan Graham-Clay attempts to provide adequate information for teachers to begin their positive relationship with parents in her article, Communicating with Parents: Strategies for Teachers. Graham-Clay states the issue originates with teacher’s lack of training to efficiently and positively engage with parents. In recent years, education professionals recognized the import role parents play in the school environment and now urge teachers to interact with parents very early in the year.…
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Moreover, as Jupp (2013) describes in his concluding chapter, a narrative of “relationality...presents teachers’ needs for direct relationships with students, families, communities, and social agencies” (p. 105). In my understanding, through deeply ingrained relationships one can take away powerful information on the life and needs of the learner which can be instrumental in providing a clearer picture of the incidental. Moreover, a snapshot of the individual students’ life and how it can be critically evaluated towards the overall structures without placing undue blame on the student or their family and likewise draw incorrect conclusions. This also provides a good point of transition for exploring the methods of combating such deficit…
I think in order to get the students to speak up during their IEP it is important to make sure they understand what is being talked about at the meeting. Teachers at the IEP should make sure that the student is understanding everything taking place at the IEP. If the student feels confident that they understand what is being discussed they may be less fearful to share their thoughts. It is also important for every person at the meeting to understand that the student’s opinions matter. Charlie will probably need a little nudging to stay on track while Rosemary will need a little nudging to speak up.…
Implications for practice, is simple. As a teacher or counselor, document every meeting and communications with the ARD team, with the parents, and with child. Review IEP as often as required or upon request. If the IEP is not producing adequate results with any one student, it is necessary to work together with the teachers and parents to improve or change IEP. Each student and family situation is unique, and it may be necessary to adjust an IEP to better suit an individual child.…
These can include tutors, support group leaders and members, and/or research partners. Chapter 3 ends on a fantastic point that revolves around making sure educators do not take one side on this issue and become forceful when trying to achieve parental involvement. Common theme of respect is witnessed throughout the chapter, and at the end of the day, respecting one another will tend to create the best…
Informational Interview For this assignment, I chose to conduct an informational interview with Claudia Romo, a Career Technical Education (CTE) Counselor at Rio Hondo College. The reason I chose to interview a CTE counselor was to learn more about the CTE Counseling and how different the student-counselor interactions are to general academic counselors. The informational interview provided me with a different lens in viewing community college as I discovered the different counseling objectives CTE counselors have to general counselors. These counseling objectives range from longer counseling sessions, direct employer interactions, job site field trips, and career related workshops.…
withdrawing. The reinforcement of security in the learning environment will help to limit distractions while increasing the Arianna’s’ motivation to learn. Another way to intervene in a situation where bullying and victimization are present upon social media, is to incorporate positive ways to use social media in the classroom to set a positive example of how it could be used. I would develop an Instagram or Twitter account for the class that could be followed by students and parents, and be a positive way to display social media. The account could reinforce positive behaviors by giving shout outs, or posting positive quotes and encouragements.…
There were approximately 42 students and 3 teachers. She developed wonderful relationship with her peers and teachers. In relation to Erikson’s developmental theory he recognized the importance of teacher and peer relationships along with parents (Austrian, S. G.,2008). After she developed positive relationships with her peers and her teachers her entire view of schooling was revised into something…
This IEP meeting was for a student, whom I will call Laura, for an annual IEP meeting. She is an ELL student, so the meeting started with us waiting for about 45 minutes for the translator. She was late due to another meeting, and the mother spoke no English, so we had to wait patiently. Once everyone was in attendance, we started with introductions. The people in attendance at the meeting were as follows: special education teacher, general education science teacher, mother, interpreter, school psychologist, assistant principle, and myself.…
Strong relationships are built when there is open communication, equal partnership and understanding. Parents know their child the best and the open communication will help the child succeed. Communication with families can help identify behavior and academic changes. When a teacher knows about things that occur in a child’s life outside the classroom they will have a better idea on how to help the child. Family involvement is also important and helps build the parent teacher relationship.…
When there is a communication or family issue, it is harder for the student to develop close relationships with teachers (50). This, again, reinforces the concept of maintaining a good relationship between the teachers, students, and parents to open up more academic opportunities and possibly result in higher academic achievement. Saft & Pianta (2001) conducted a study which…
Please remark as to why you chose the needs that you did and how difficult you feel it will be or not be to support these needs in a regular education classroom. For this class, I had to develop an IEP for my case study student who was Number 3. Number 3 was a challenging student who needed a lot of supports. When I first began doing my first IEP, I had never attempted at doing one before and it much more in depth than I had imagined.…
There are three paradigms for how teachers should interact with students and their families. The first one is the separation paradigm which means that the parents give the responsibility of their child 's education to the school and makes the school responsible for their children’s results. I experienced this in my high school child development class with the preschool. There was a student who would act out in class and would never do his work so my teacher got in contact with his parents about this and blamed in on the schools program and my teacher. I do not agree with this one for the reason that it puts all the blame on the teacher and gives no responsibility to the parents.…
Reflection 8 Establishing trust between students and families can be a difficult task to accomplish. This can be in large part due to the fact parents are so protective of their child, because they want them to be safe. It also can be due to the feelings of being overwhelmed with such an overloaded schedule filled with meetings with teachers, support staff, special needs services, doctors, psychologists, and transition services. In many cases the life of a parent with special needs is much like running a marathon with little or no breaks. Making the parent understand he or she is not alone and you are there for them is important.…