Consultative Services for Teachers

Teaching is the world’s greatest profession and teachers can have the greatest positive impact on children after involved loving and caring parents. Because of their vast potential to influence growth, teachers shoulder an awesome responsibility as their actions can impact children for a lifetime.

Dr. Haim Ginott, educator, psychologist and author of the best selling classic “Between Parent and Child”, described in a most direct way the teacher’s impact on students in a classroom. “ I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in my classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous…” 

I describe the relationship between parents and teachers as a partnership. As partners, both parties have shared and separate responsibilities. It’s essential for both parties to understand that a partnership is the optimum relationship for the greatest success for children in our school systems. It’s essential that each party understand their responsibility in the partnership as well as the responsibility of their partner.

In order for teachers to be effective and successful in their partnership, the following categories require mastery. 

1. Creating and maintaining a positive classroom culture to include effective student motivation, planning great lessons, developing appropriate expectations for students, effectively communicating and consistently upholding them and maintaining a growth mindset and instilling it in the students.

2. Understanding the individuality of all students and meeting their individual needs.

3. Creating and maintaining an effective parent-teacher partnership.

4. Maintaining a professional demeanor at all times.

I am available to advise in all of the above mentioned areas. Please contact me for a free consultation. All interactions are done with the highest level of confidentiality.