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Lieber, Joan; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1997
Studied effects of mainstreaming on the roles of professionals in 16 inclusive preschool programs, using interviews, observation, and document analysis. Found that a sense of shared philosophy or joint ownership of children, when reached jointly rather than being lopsided or imposed from outside, produced more positive experiences, and that key…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Classroom Environment, Disabilities, Mainstreaming

Bronsil, Elizabeth – Montessori Life, 1996
Describes activities in a university child observation class to sensitize students to diverse parents' needs related to school involvement. Presents feedback regarding parents' needs from: interviews with adoptive parents; interviews with single parents; and interviews with parents regarding parent-teacher conferences. (KDFB)
Descriptors: Adoptive Parents, Family Needs, Higher Education, One Parent Family

Manning, Diane; Schindler, Patricia J. – Young Children, 1997
Uses a psychoanalytic approach to examine effective ways to articulate concerns to parents about their child's difficulties. Presents methods for developing trusting relationships, planning prior to the conference, conducting the parent-teacher conference and post-conference follow-up, and meeting teachers' concerns. Describes two situations in…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Communication, Parent School Relationship
Greene, Jacquetta L. – 1991
A study was conducted to determine what methods of student evaluation parents felt were most effective in helping them assist in their child's efforts to develop skills and understand their child's performance in school. A survey was conducted among 168 parents in central Virginia, including parents of kindergarten through fourth grade students in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Santa, Carol M. – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Describes the use of student-led conferences in place of traditional teacher-parent conference. Notes that conferences reflect curricular change to reading and writing workshops and thematic studies, belief that students should take responsibility for their own literacy behaviors, and use of portfolio assessment. (TM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Marion, Robert L. – Journal of Negro Education, 1980
Describes a field program for University of Texas teacher trainees designed to make White future teachers more comfortable with the parents of Black educable mentally retarded children. (GC)
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Wanat, Carolyn L.; Ehly, Stewart; Atkinson, Alice – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2001
Used focus group interviews to explore parents' perceptions of school efforts at parental involvement in elementary school. Found that parents described many positive interactions with their children's schools. Positive interactions were related to attitudes of classroom teachers, communication practices of the school and teacher, and the format…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Focus Groups, Parent Attitudes
Smith, Cecilia Joyce – Schools in the Middle, 1997
Provides guidelines for educators to prepare for potentially difficult parent conferences and to conduct them to a successful conclusion. Suggestions include anticipating concerns, accentuating the positive, listening to parents, being truthful, being firm, being polite, offering solutions and assistance, asking for suggestions, admitting…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication, Middle School Students
Shepard, Lorrie A.; Bleim, Caribeth L. – 1995
Parent opinions about standardized tests and performance assessments were examined systematically. Mutually exclusive but randomly equivalent stratified samples from schools participating in a study of performance assessment and control schools were used to measure change in parent opinion over time. Approximately one-third of parents (n=105)…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beliefs, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education

Minke, Kathleen M.; Anderson, Kellie J. – Elementary School Journal, 2003
Compared traditional parent-teacher conferences with an alternative collaborative model that includes students (family-school conferences) in a suburban elementary school. Found that teachers and parents valued traditional conferences as opportunities for information exchange, but both groups reported anxiety that may interfere with communication.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers

Mann, Steven – School Counselor, 1996
The author presents a worksheet designed for use in parent-teacher conferences, specifically those dealing with Attention Deficit Disorder. The worksheet was developed in response to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and is designed as a simple measure to provide parents with a way to document their children's needs. (KW)
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Attention Span, Behavior Disorders

Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Quiroz, Blanca; Raeff, Catherine – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Analyzes the discourse between Latino immigrant parents and their children's elementary school teacher during parent-teacher conferences. Finds that parents and teachers often use different criteria to evaluate children's progress, with the teacher holding more individualistic goals for the child's development and the parents' goals being more…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
Coleman, Geraldine J. – 1982
This is the fourth in a series of six monographs developed to help local educators use and report Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test results. Sharing MEAP test reports with parents gives them information on their child's basic skills and generates parent involvement and support for the school. This sharing should be addressed on…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Models

Pryor, Carolyn B. – Social Work in Education, 1996
Reviews eight techniques for assessing family-school connections studied by participants in a two-year school personnel training program: informal observation and discussion; examination of pre-existing data; review of places, policies, and programs; focus group discussion; mailed survey; survey at school; telephone survey; and radio call-in.…
Descriptors: Children, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Family (Sociological Unit)
Zuga, Karen F. – 1983
In an effort to describe parent-teacher conferences and assess their influence on the curriculum, three researchers interviewed children, parents, teachers, and the principal of a midwestern elementary school and observed various school and Parent Teacher Association functions. High school and elementary school parents were mailed a survey.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Problems, Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education