Questions tagged [teacher]
For all questions about teachers specifically, e. g. parents or children interacting with teachers or behavior of children towards teachers and vice versa, how to communicate with teachers etc. For questions about schools or daycare centers in general, use [school] or [daycare] respectively.
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Teacher appoints child to register who isn't silent when he is gone for 10 minutes (4th grade, 9 years old)
Is it appropriate for a 4th-grade teacher (whose students are 9 years old) to assign a student to monitor the classroom and record the names of those who do not remain quiet when the teacher is absent ...
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How to stop my child's teacher from disciplining my child without my consent?
My daughter is 6 she is diagnosed add adhd fetal exposure. We adopted her at 6 weeks. I told the school after a assistant teacher terrorized my child into saying she was lying when she wasn’t not to ...
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I perceive teacher's "head patting" and "ear rubbing" as inapriopraite
Country: UK
School level: reception (5 year old)
There is a new main teacher at my child's class - he started teaching few weeks ago.
During pick up time when he releases children I see him patting ...
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Teacher asking my 5 year old daughter to take a boy student to toilet
My daughter is in year 1 in the UK. She was asked by her teacher to help a boy of her class go to the boys' toilet and get back. What should I be aware of in such cases? I am not sure what were the ...
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Is this normal behavior for a kindergarten teacher?
I just had my son's kindergarten teacher tell me that 'the way you are raising him is making my job harder'. I was offended by this but don't have much experience with teachers and don't know if I am ...
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Is school punishment for mediocre test results reasonable?
My daughter is 9 years old, she's just started grade 4. We've had her in a school for gifted kids since kindergarten. It's been great so far because they understand the challenges that gifted kids ...
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How to make a 5-year-old follow instructions in kindergarten?
I have a 5-year-old granddaughter. She has only been in kindergarten for two weeks and has been in trouble three times for not following instructions. No walking in line without touching wall or ...
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My daughter tells me her teacher slapped her. How should I proceed?
I have a 4-year-old daughter. She goes to a small, private preschool. It is one class, all my daughter's age.
There is no director; it consists of four women, who are partners, who take turns ...
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What is the effect of locking a child in bathroom?
My son is 5 years old and very active and also good in studies. The only problem is he some time becomes very naughty. Some time to the extent that we are pissed off. One thing he does is he mimics ...
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First time kindergartner having trouble with focus
I have a 5-year-old who's in kindergarten for the first time this year. He is a smart person, but in class he's not staying focused. He gets sidetracked easily but he can comprehend and get the ...
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What can I tell and what can I ask of a 2nd grade teacher, about my child's health?
My son is 6 and in second grade. In general he is quite healthy, but he has illness induced asthma. In other words, his asthma is essentially dormant unless he gets a cold or the flu, at which point ...
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What to do about my boyfriend's 6-year-old who behaves very badly when away from his parents?
My boyfriend has a 6-year-old boy for whom he has primary custody over. He visits his mother for the summer, some holidays, talks to her via Skype and on the phone. He seems to have a very loving and ...
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Gifts for teachers at private schools? [duplicate]
How typical is it for parents to give end-of-school-year gifts to teachers at a private school?
If it is usual or frequent, what types of gifts and how expensive?
(My 6 yo has 4 teachers for his ...
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The teacher erased 3 pages of my 5 year old's completed homework
I have a 5-year-old smart child. He does his homework as neat as he can. Yesterday, he stayed up for an hour doing 3 pages of homework as good as he can and today when checking his copy-book, I found ...
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Teacher appreciation week
My 1.5 year old attends a private day-care/Montessori school. This is teacher appreciation week, and I am at a loss as to what to do to express my thanks. Since this is a day-care setting, even though ...
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What can a parent do when his child has an incompetent teacher?
What can you do when your child comes back from school with tears in her eyes or her heart because of an incompetent teacher? Three examples to illustrate:
she told her class that humans can hear ...
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How do you as teacher deal with children who like to hug you?
I'm a male teacher. I have a problem with two 10-year-old girls who sometimes insist on hugging me. I don't particularly enjoy hugs at the best of times and when the hug comes from a minor I really ...
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What to do when the school principal breaks our confidence?
My 5-year-old son had been coming home for several days (eight at that point) in distress because one political candidate was "evil" and the other was "good". The views he was embracing did not match ...
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How to stop my 4-year-old from having tantrums at preschool?
My 4-, soon to be 5-, year-old daughter has temper tantrums at preschool. She does not have them for me and has not had them for me for the past couple of years. I never fed her temper tantrums. It ...
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My 6-year-old daughter is hitting her teacher and talking back!
I have a 6-year-old daughter. Today, my babysitter said that my child hit her teacher. She hit her in the mouth and didn't say sorry when the teacher asked her to say sorry. Then the teacher said she ...
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Communication between Parents and teachers
I have a question for all parents and teachers.
I am a divorced dad and my sons are living with their mother. My problem is that I am not kept up to date on my sons' behavior at school. I do receive ...
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Flowers for Montessori primary classroom?
This may be a bit outside the normal question scope here, but it's worth a shot.
Like at most Montessori schools, parents at our daughters' school have a variety of volunteer roles. In one of our ...
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Mom as kindergarten teacher of her own child
Due to some conflict situation with previous kindergarten owner, we were forced to pull our 2 y.o. from this. In the middle of the year, it's a bit difficult to find new place for a child, but for our ...
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How can I handle a situation with a faulty, cruel teacher that does not like me and takes it out on my child?
Let me start by offering to explain my situation. It is a lot more challenging to handle than the title presents, so I should definitely elaborate, then I'll ask my question.
My child is in 1st ...
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How do I address a teacher humiliating my son by calling him a "tattletale"?
My friend recently shared this experience, and I thought it would be a good question for our site:
So, [my son] got in trouble in school today.
It seems that the kids were lined up in the hallway, ...
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How to control a class of 4 year old children?
Any advice on how to "manage", "gain control" and get the "attention" from a class of 4 yr olds? This was not covered in my University course.
Note: English is their second language, and I must only ...
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What are some effective strategies that I can take to get my first grade child in the highest quality teacher's classroom?
My child is now in Kindergarten, and next year she will switch schools.
I watched the movie Waiting for "Superman" and now I would like to know how I can influence the selection of a teacher (e.g. so ...
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How do you investigate what's going on in the pre-kindergarten classroom?
For some, seeing the kindergarten teacher have such remarkable control over 20 children seems astonishing.
But she doesn't get that without doing something. And the children don't always tell you ...
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Disagreeing with a teacher [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disagreement, academically, with a teacher
I voted to close my last to, similar questions, as they seemed to not explain themselves well enough to get the answers I was ...
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I don't like my child's teacher's teaching style
My daughter is in second grade and is learning spelling. The teacher puts a lot of emphasis on alphabetizing words. I don't see the academic value in this, especially now that people, for the most ...
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How should I handle academic disagreement with a teacher?
A second grade teacher of a friend of my daughter taught her class that Columbus was not a nice man, and explained why. My daughter was not affected by this teaching. However, it brought up the ...
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What are best practices for managing student-teacher relationships?
Often the focus is on the relationship between teachers and parents, which makes sense largely because the parents seek to manage their relationship with the teachers.
My question is: as a parent, ...
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How do you handle a conflict between your child and a teacher?
How do you approach resolving a situation where a teacher and your child are having a major conflict? When your child comes to you complaining about "unfair treatment" from a teacher, how do you ...
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How should we prepare for a parent-teacher consultation in preschool?
Our very first parent-teacher consultation for our pre-schooler (almost three years old) is coming up. Because of that I'd like to bring some more attention to this question:
How to maximise the ...
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How can we make the most of Parent-Teacher consultations?
We attend parent-teacher consultations once a term and we sometimes come out feeling as if we've just received the the boilerplate script. Little X is doing fine, reaching all appropriate milestones ...
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