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Bryan, Jennifer – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012
Very few PreK-12 teachers are adequately trained to address the gender identity and sexual identity of their students in a developmentally-appropriate and pedagogically-sound manner. Yet responsible adults--parents, educators, pre-service teachers, coaches, religious instructors, camp administrators and school counselors--must help children…
Descriptors: Parent Conferences, Sexuality, Sexual Identity, School Counselors
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Boazman, Janette – Parenting for High Potential, 2014
This article focuses on the fact that very often the traditional parent-teacher conference process is missing the most important stake holder, the child. The author asks the reader to clear the traditional image of parent-teacher conferences from their mind and imagine a conference process and setting that has the potential to bring together…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Conferences, Child Development, Models, Goal Orientation
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Lenski, Susan Davis; And Others – Primary Voices K-6, 1996
Discusses student-led parent conferences at Metcalf Laboratory School. Finds that students can learn how to reflect on their learning, evaluate their progress, and communicate this information to their parents in a conference situation. Concludes that students were empowered and that student-led conferences were a good way to use guided…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Models, Parent Conferences, Parent Student Relationship
Carnine, L. M. – 1979
This paper describes the positive effects of the Parent Program of the University of Oregon Follow Through Program. Section I illustrates the positive effects of parent involvement in two case histories of parents' political activism directed at securing and maintaining quality education for their children. Section II focuses on parents'…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Models, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Parent Attitudes
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Kroth, Roger; Otteni, Harriet – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1983
A parent center supported by the Albuquerque Public School System and the University of New Mexico promotes cooperation between parents and educators to serve exceptional children. The center was based on assumptions about money, time, personnel, parent heterogeneity, and needs/strengths as delineated in the "Mirror Model of Parent Involvement."…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Parent Participation
Wallbrown, Fred H.; Prichard, Karen Kidd – 1979
This paper focuses on the first steps (Planning and Organization) of a three-stage model designed to help school personnel deal with problem-oriented parent-teacher conferences. Seven distinct steps of the Planning and Organization stage are described in detail: (1) specifying the problem; (2) organizing information; (3) specifying objectives; (4)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship, Inservice Teacher Education, Interpersonal Competence