Dealing with Difficult Parents: A masterclass for building positive relationships

Dealing with Difficult Parents Course Aim

Parents can be amazing allies or time-consuming challenges. Teachers, leaders and headteachers report that they are spending more and more time managing parents: their emotions, their expectations and sometimes their threats. It is stressful and debilitating – especially when it’s their children we are working so hard to support!

What if you could more effectively win over your students’ parents, forge a positive relationship with them and co-opt them as allies and friends to your school?

This online course is designed to help you do just that. Parents today, equipped with AI, social media & WhatsApp/ FB groups and radicalised by various online influences, can generate lots of noise that merely detracts from the job you’re trying to do. In the process, some parents’ approaches further embolden their children to be disruptive or defiant within the classroom and resist any interventions. So, whether the topic is tackling school avoidance, online abuse, bullying or simply helping students get the best grades they can, you need to know how to get the parents onside.

You’ll learn:

• How to read parents’ behaviour so as to address the root issues
• What your parents need in order to trust you
• The two main parenting approaches that shape how parents engage with school
• How to write emails and letters to parents that diffuse potentially explosive situations
• How to manage meetings with parents
• How to manage parental expectations
• The five moral foundations which underpin parental concerns
• How to deflect issues that you can’t fix so they don’t keep draining your time
• Top pitfalls to avoid!

This training is suitable for all school staff.  Fees are £195 + VAT per person with discounts for 2+ colleagues from one establishment.