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Helping Students Adjust to the New School Year: Teacher Tips for Parents

Helping Students Adjust to the New School Year The first day of school can be scary. Children wonder about how everything will go— “Will my friends still like me?” “Will I make new friends?” “Do I look okay?” This is completely normal and happens to most students at one time or another....

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School Success – 10 Ways Parents Can Help: Teacher Tips for Parents

School Success—10 Ways Parents Can Help Teachers are amazing—math teachers, science teachers, language teachers, music teachers, PE teachers—they’re committed every day to helping students reach their goals. And teachers benefit greatly from help from their students’ parents. After all,...

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10 Ways To Help Kids Handle Back-to-School Anxiety: Teacher Tips for Parents

10 Ways To Help Kids Handle Back-to-School Anxiety: Teacher Tips for Parents During their school years, all students will go through many new scenarios and situations: starting school for the first time, changing schools, getting new teachers, learning new rules, adjusting to new schedules as they hit middle...

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6 Classroom Note Taking Apps: Teacher Tips for Parents

6 Helpful Apps for Classroom Note Taking and Homework. These days many middle school and high school students have trouble keeping up with everything they are supposed to do each day: school, homework, jobs, volunteering and extracurricular activities overwhelm their calendars. As teachers, we see this...

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Make Parents Your Partner: Teacher Tips for Parents

Teachers: Make Parents Your Partner Building strong relationships with your students’ parents takes time, but it’s an investment sure to pay off. When parents and teachers work together as partners, kids benefit greatly. A solid parent-teacher partnership hinges on mutual respect and open communication....

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Homework Tips for Parents: Teacher Tips for Parents

Homework Tips for Parents When the last bell rings for the day, you most likely see students burst out of school so happy to be free! They’re ready to meet up with friends, participate in activities, scarf down a snack or two, and enjoy their night. Once they arrive home, however, they realize that...

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Student Goal Setting: 3 Steps to Success: Teacher Tips for Parents

Student Goal-Setting: 3 Steps to Success Students need to learn how to set reasonable goals for themselves. In school, it’s common for teachers to witness students seeming disappointed in themselves and upset about their grades. Their reactions may range from tears to anger to blaming someone else....

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At Home Learning Tips for Parents: Teacher Tips for Parents

At-Home Learning Tips for Parents While teachers play an important role in a child’s educational experience for a year or maybe a few, parents are in it for the long haul. Most parents were their kids’ primary teacher long before their children started school, reciting with them their ABCs and 123s...

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Guide to Parent-Teacher Conferences: Teacher Tips for Parents

Why Attend a Parent-Teacher Conference? Parent-teacher conferences are an essential tool that help teachers talk in more depth about the information parents see on report cards and test scores. They give teachers an opportunity to discuss students’ specific strengths, weaknesses, and needs with...

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