Spend a full day in a lively interactive workshop designed to help you work successfully with the parents of all of your students.  This workshop will give you the skills needed to establish an effective communication with parents, plan and execute conferences that are positive and productive, and help you to deal with parents that may be difficult or challenging.  You will have the opportunity to role play, observe and critique simulation interactions with parents and learn techniques for managing conflict.  You will also be skilled at creating behavior management plans for challenging children while enlisting parents as partners in their children’s education.

Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Establish yourself as the professional with answers and open to a healthy communication with parents of your students
• Learn the reasons behind parents’ behaviors and actions!
• Develop strategies that will enable you to communicate effectively with parents on a variety of issues
• Learn techniques for resolving potential conflicts with parents
• Practice award winning parent conferencing techniques
• Establish a home school communication system that is fail-safe
• Learn how to disarm criticism from parents
• Learn the skills necessary to hold a parent-teacher conference regarding problem behavior

Outline

• Introduction
• Real Life scenarios
• Envision
  • Creating Win-Win Interactions In the child’s best interest
• Expectations
  • Your Classroom
  • Professionalism
  • Communication
• Effective Response Styles
  • Troublesome relationships
• Tips for Solid Parent -teacher Communication
  • The Parent-teacher relation rule book
• Conducting parent conferences
  • The problem, behavior conference
  • Disarming criticism from parents
  • Key phrases to use in conflict
  • Steps to follow with the reluctant parent When to let go
• Conclusion/A Story

Trainer’s Profile
Kathryn is an internationally recognized presenter, consultant and author with more than 30 years of experience in education.  Her background includes teaching at all levels – preschool through university, behavioural and academic consultation, staff development and strategic planning for schools in working with special needs students.

Kathryn is a published author, consults with more than 100 school districts throughout North America each year as well as the ministry of education in the US. She speaks to more than 150 audiences a year and has trained over 14,000 educators in the last five years.   She has published nine books school professionals, including Successful Strategies for Working with Challenging Elementary School Children, A Smooth Ride: Management for Bus Drivers and Ideas that Work for Students with Sensory Processing Disorders. She is also the commentator on a full length DVD produced by the United States Bureau of Education and Research. She has made several radio and television appearances throughout the United States regarding a variety of current issues in education.

Kathryn has been providing workshops on learning issues for special needs students for over 30 years.  Her expertise of the content area is interwoven with videos, group activities, story telling, humour, and a plethora of practical strategies with hands-on examples.  A skillful educator, Kathryn recognizes that adult learners require a multi-modality approach with real life experiences, opportunities to practice and timely topic

Methodology

Target Audience

Duration: 1 day, 7 hours

Venue: 30 Prinsep Street, 4th Floor Prinsep House, Singapore 188647

Closing Date:  1 May 06