Communicating with Parents & Families

Learning the Skills for Communicating with Parents as a Teacher

Course Description

This course offers various strategies to help educators communicate with and build positive relationships with parents and families of students being taught. Using these strategies makes communicating with students’ families more feasible and less overwhelming.

By establishing valuable, consistent communication with students’ families, student outcomes can improve. This course shows educators that they can help improve their students’ success and increase their own enjoyment of teaching at the same time.

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Course Numbers

Our parent communication for teachers’ course may be noted differently in various institutional syllabi. Below are two common course numbers, for reference:

Adams State: ED 589
UMass Global: EDAU 9774

If in doubt, contact your institution for precise course codes.

Course Learning Objectives

When communicating with parents, strategies for teachers are the keys to success. This course is specifically designed to help empower teachers to communicate with parents and extended family. Students of this online course will be able to:

Students will learn communicating with parents’ strategies for teachers specifically. These are strategies to communicate with and build relationships with parents and families of their own students.
Students will be able to apply strategies to communicate better with parents and families of their own students. They will also learn to build better relationships with those families.
Students will be able to use communication and relationships with families to work together as a team to improve their own students’ learning.
Students will develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching practices.

Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with skills needed for effectively communicating with adults in their students’ orbit. The following relevant information is covered to help improve their practice:

Strategies to increase communication with and encourage positive relationships with parents of students.
Strategies for better communicating with families as a teacher.
Strategies to keep parents and families informed of student behavior and academics.
Strategies to drive parental involvement in their child’s education
Increasing teaching enjoyment through greater student success and improved student behavior from regular communication with families.
Developing a partnership between teacher and family members in creative ways to support student learning, success and behavior during the school year.
Conducting student-led conferences to empower students and encourage student ownership over their learning.
Conducting parent teacher conferences effectively.
Implementing a system for consistently making positive phone calls home.
Overcoming potential barriers when it comes to connecting with parents and families of students.

Course Format

This is an online course. Please use course materials emailed to you upon your original registration.

Using Love and Logic to Develop Responsibility Syllabus

Click below for a preview syllabus for this course. This syllabus applies to students receiving credits from Adams State University or UMass Global or those taking the course for Continuing Education (no credits).

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No-Risk Guarantee:

You can cancel a course registration within 30-days and receive a 100% refund, no questions asked.

Registration Now Open: Register now and receive your course materials within 24 hours. Course materials are due within 6 months of registering for the course.

Price:

Starting at $189.00

Credits:

Graduate Credits

*Pricing may not include University Fees. Select option to include fees.

University Fee

Course fee may or may not include the university’s registration fee depending on the university partner. University fees are not included in the registration fee for Adam’s State University and University of Massachusetts Global.

Those additional fees are:
University of Massachusetts Global: $70/credit
Adam’s State University: $55/credit

Instructions for how to register with your selected University Partner and pay additional fees will be provided after registering with Credits for Teachers.

University fees for Colorado State University Pueblo are included in the course fees.

Please note that we cannot grant refunds for students who have already turned in work for a course, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Refunds Policy

Students are able to request a full refund of any Credits for Teachers course within 30 days of registration. In order to do so, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name and the course you registered for and we will complete the refund.

Exchange Policy

Students are able to exchange one course for another within 30 days of registration as long as the course price is the same and the student does not change the university Partner. In order to exchange a course, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, course you have registered for and the course you would like to switch to.

Please note that we cannot exchange a course once for students who have already submitted their course for grading, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Transfer Policy

Students that would like to transfer their course from one university partner to another may have the opportunity to do so within the first 30 days of registering for a course. In order to transfer your course to a different University Partner, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, the course you are currently registered for and the new University Partner you’d like to switch to.

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