Encyclopedia of tested, proven strategies to help you remove the bariers that impede your child's progress. This essential compendium enables you to take positive, practicial steps, make learning a creative, joyous experience, and give your child the essential tools for success in school and in life.

This easy-to-use source book offers the help children need to get the most out of school. Using the valuable insights and information provided here, you will not only be able to identify the obstacles hindering your child's educational growth, you'll discover how to overcome them! "Improving Your Child's Schoolwork is the key to understanding and resolving whatever scholastic difficulties your child may encounter, whether due to attitude, attention span, visual memory, dyslexia, or other common problems. Learn how to: - Improve your child's study time, classroom participation, and overall success in school - Work with teachers and tutors to get results - Improve your child's preformance on tests - Make sure homework gets the attention it deserves - Help your child bounce back from setbacks and learn from mistakes - Approach problems and goals in a manner consistent with your parenting style - Provide your child the opportunity to pursue talents and develop skills "Improving Your Child's Schoolwork doesn't have to be read cover-to-cover. Use it as you would an encyclopedia: simply look up the problem or issue you are concerned about and explore the suggested strategies together with your child. If you want additional or related information, refer to the many cross-referenced entries. You don't have to be a teacher to use those techniques--any parent can use these constructive, supportive, and loving means to help a child succeed in school. About the Author Lawrence J. Greene has over twenty years of experience helping children learn. He is the founder and executive director of the Developmental Learning Center in San Jose, California, where he and hisstaff have treated more than 12,000 learning disabled and underachieving children. He speaks to schools and parent-teacher groups nationwide, and is the author of a number of parenting books, including "The Life Smart Kid and "Getting Smarter.

Emergencies: --when to call your child's physician immediately -what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuries Common Illnesses: -when it's safe to treat your child at home -step-by-step instructions on dealing with fever, infections, allergies, rashes, earaches, croup and other common ailments Behavior Problems: -proven strategies for colic, sleep disturbances, toilet training problems, thumbsucking, and the video game craze -no-nonsense discipline techniques for biting, temper tantrums, sibling fighting, and school refusal Health Promotion: From Birth Through Adolescence: -essential advice on newborn baby care, nutrition, cholesterol testing, immunizations, and sex education -ways of preventing spoiled children, picky eaters, overeating, tooth decay, accidents, and homework problems

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Richard Lakin's collection is geared to teachers, principals, parents, and all those concerned with making schools more loving and effective for each child. He presents a close look at his school staff working together to create both a caring, challenging learning environment and a real partnership between school and home. In today's high stakes and test obsessed world, Teaching as an Act of Love encourages teachers as they remember why they entered teaching in the first place-to zero in on the individual child, "the whole child" and encourage the love of learning. In the 55 informative and optimistic pieces in the book, Richard proposes more personalized "smaller caring schools of choice," where the child comes first, where bureaucracy, testing and NCLB are minimized and where a loving school climate and kindness prevail

In this engaging book Professor Ken Reid focuses on the needs of school professionals and leaders, providing them with workable, achievable solutions to radically reducing their truancy rates. As well as discussing the importance of regular attendance and the importance of sound leadership, Professor Reid provides: A highly effective whole school strategy for use in both primary and secondary schools Checklists on good practice Early intervention strategies Advice on using attendance panels Guidance on effective monitoring schemes Supporting throughout with case-studies, sample letters, reports, attendance calendars and action plans, this book will be an essential staff-room resource for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.

A comprehensive manual and reference guide for choosing the best elementary school for your child to attend.