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Markstrom, Ann-Marie – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
This article explores the face-to-face interactions between parents and teachers in parent-teacher conferences in the Swedish preschool. The article highlights how the preschool teacher introduces the conference by using a specific artifact, so-called "strength cards" with words relating to characteristic behaviour and qualities. The theoretical…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Conferences, Discourse Analysis, Preschool Teachers, Parent Participation
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Chang, Mido; Choi, Namok; Kim, Sunha – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
The goal of the study was to provide empirical findings on the effects of different types of parents' school involvement (PSI) on their children's mathematics performance. For PSI, we explored parent participation in parent-teacher conferences, voluntary parental involvement in school activities, parent informal contact with school or teachers,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Minority Group Students
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
Whorton, Debra M. – 1986
The Parent Involvement Research Program assessed the extent of parental involvement in the educational process of handicapped children in Kansas, and implemented three training models in urban and rural areas to increase parent participation levels. The three training models were teacher-to-parent contact, parent-to-parent contact, and community…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Incidence, Models
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