Engaging Parents"
Having difficulty engaging parents to talk about your concerns about their child’s problems?
Here are some helpful tips you may want to consider next time you meet with one of your parents.
Always try to ask questions and empower parents to discover the right answers.
- Express empathy
- Explore the parent’s perceptions
- Explore any perceptual discrepancies
- Avoid power struggles
- Roll with resistance
- Emphasize personal choice and responsibility for deciding future behavior
Use a variety of ways in which your facility communicates with all parents.
Some strategies may include:
- Notes
- Newsletters
- Parent volunteers
- Field trips
- Bulletin boards for parents
- Phone calls
- Open House
- Family history information sheet
- Parent conferences
- Parent Handbook
- Family lunch hours
- Workshops and trainings for parents on parent-related issues
- Parent/child orientation meetings
- Provide resources and materials to support learning at home
- Parent library for parents to check out books and periodicals
Engaging parents takes practice. For more info and additional training…
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Role play and practice engaging parents as much as possible!