For in-service and practicing teachers and for parents as well, Home-School Relations examines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school, and provides practical advice for developing strong home-school relationships and solid examples of building good home-school partnerships and fostering parent involvement. This textbook discusses the need for educators to have positive working relationships with the students they teach and describes the techniques they must use to understand the families from which their students come. In addition to covering the traditional topics of ethnic families, change in families, and parent-teacher communication, this practical and popular text delves further into the issues facing families today and their effect on families including: income level, advocacy, the father’s role, family and domestic violence, bullying and school violence, parents’ perspectives on schools, opening new paths of understanding for educators. The text features a multitude of practical information such as descriptions of the successful parent-involvement programs, contains an excellent chapter on communication skills and activities, helps educators understand the legal and policy aspects of home-school relations and educational choices, and incorporates working with students with special needs in the classroom. Diversity (cultural, racial, religious, and sexual orientation) is integrated and discussed throughout the textbook to promote understanding of all students and their families, including those with special needs. Unlike other books in this field, Home-School Relations confronts the alarming statistics on poverty and how it affects children, and ultimately, their performance in schools.

Home and School Relations: Teachers and Parents Working Together (4th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Olsen, Glenn W.

Fuller, Mary Lou

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

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Home and School Relations: Teachers and Parents Working Together (5th Edition)

Griego Jones and Fuller present information about the role of national origins and cultural backgrounds in teaching and learning and why it is important for teachers to know about culture in general, and about Hispanic cultural groups in particular. The history and background on culture is intended to provide knowledge and a deeper understanding of the lives of Hispanic children in the United States and to help teachers and prospective teachers expand their professional perspectives. In writing about classroom practice and how to work with family and parents, the authors have tried to directly address points identified in educational literature as effective practices for Hispanic children. There is a need for educators to understand their own thinking about Hispanic populations, to reflecton their knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about populations that have long been part of the American landscape, but are now becoming a more visible part of it. The theme of reflection is carried out throughout each chapter with questions that will guide the reader to reflect on the content of the chapter and on the implications for themselves as professional educators. Provides an overview and demographic breakdown of the Hispanic population, including national origin, time in this country, geographical region, income level, and age. A theme of reflection is carried throughout with reflection exercises at the end of each chapter. Through various activities, preservice and inservice teachers are encouraged to begin developing their own methods and approaches to connecting with Hispanic students. "Authors' Notes" is a boxed feature in which the authors describe and reflect on their own experience as teacher educators.

Teaching Hispanic Children

Griego Jones, Toni

Home-School Relations examines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school and provides practical advice for developing strong home-school relationships. This book discusses the need for educators to have positive working relationships with the students they teach and describes the techniques they must use to understand the families from which their students come. In addition to covering the traditional topics of ethnic families, change in families, and parent-teacher communication, Olsen, Fuller, and their contributors delve further into the issues facing families today. Poverty, advocacy, fathering and domestic violence and their effect on families are covered opening new paths of understanding for educators. In addition, diversity (cultural, racial, religious, and sexual orientation) is discussed.

Home-School Relations: Working Successfully With Parents and Families

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Allyn&Bacon

Adult Learners On Campus

The opportunity for a "second chance" is a growing phenomenon. Some members of the Adult Learners Consulting Group, a dozen or so faculty and graduate students at the University of Dakota, who have a general interest in the related processes of learning and teaching, investigated the specific concern about the ways older-than-average students learn and the instructional methods most appropriate for them. They recognized that for both the older student and the teacher of the older student there are problems and issues that are different from the average student or student/teacher relationship. In addition to presenting an integrated picture of adult learners on campus, this book also provides some teaching techniques that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.; It is aimed at teachers in further and adult education, trainers in all disciplines, researchers in adult and continuing education.

Slotnick, H.B.

Pelton, Mary Helen

Tabor, Lila

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

A book that bares the facts and foibles of operating an Early American Inn while simultaneously answering the question: HOW TO BE HOSPITABLE WHEN THE GUESTS KEEP GETTING IN THE WAY! A unique New Hampshire innkeeper faces challenges from all sides as he does business in a 175-year old building with a parade of unconventional guests and staff. The book is filled with humorous and often unbelievable anecdotes.

A Horse in the Ladies Room

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Kalm Pub

Where Lame Donkeys Lie

Arts & Photography

50 years ago a woman in an abusive marriage had no place to run to. She either put up with it or waited until it killed her. In the 1940's and 50's author, Mary Lou Fuller, spent 15 years in an emotionally and suxually abusiuve marriage. "On the Wings of a Unicorn" tells the story of seven special women in her life who took the time to listen, encourage her footsteps and free her soul.

On the Wings of a Unicorn

Biographies & Memoirs

Two women who value the presence of each other in their lives; who feel good about being women; who honor their experiences and feel moved to share them. The chance meeting of two 50-year old women from diverse backgrounds leads to a communion of caring and respect. As they embark on ever-strengthening support for one another and as the certainty of aging draws ever closer, they discover a commonality of spirit and depth of devotion that has sustained them for over twenty years. The knowledge that rather than wither on the vine in their seventies, they are listening to the crones within and are ripening into springtimes still to be shared.

Sisters by Heart: Partners in Aging, A Memoir

Dugan, Jim

Amsden, Kay

Community & Culture

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