{"id":7606,"date":"2016-11-20T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2016-11-20T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T06:00:54","slug":"vlog-ep-10-involving-parents-childrens-math-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/20\/vlog-ep-10-involving-parents-childrens-math-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlog Ep #10: Involving Parents in Their Children&#8217;s Math Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How do you find the parents of your students? Are they helping their children to learn, or are they more of a hindrance?<\/p>\n<p>Some parents can be incredibly difficult to cope with, of course. And sometimes an assertive manner and explaining the boundaries between their opinions and your professional work is called for.<\/p>\n<p>But apart from those difficult parents, I strongly believe that parents should be kept informed about what we are teaching, and generally we should involve them as <em>partners <\/em>in their children&#8217;s education.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wAIQ1zGWMOw?theme=light&amp;rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are going through a hard time coping with the parents of your students, please forgive me if my comments are off base or have caused you any offence; that is never my intention.<\/p>\n<p>But if you agree that working with parents is a good thing, do share your tips below on how to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u25ba <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCE_VT9793kOu1ePBMp7X_tQ?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE to Professor Pete&#8217;s Classroom on YouTube<\/a><span> to learn more expert tips on teaching K-6 math for understanding<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do you find this blog useful? Don&#8217;t miss another episode: Click below to register for our email notification list:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=' font-size: 1.5em;text-transform: uppercase;text-decoration: none;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;border: .1em solid;padding: .3em .6em;letter-spacing: .05em;color: #333;' href='javascript:\/\/' data-opf-trigger='p2c21495f157'>Register Now!<\/a><script type='text\/javascript' async='true' src='http:\/\/app.ontraport.com\/js\/ontraport\/opt_assets\/drivers\/opf.js' data-opf-uid='p2c21495f157' data-opf-params='borderColor=#ffffff&#038;borderSize=5px&#038;formHeight=667&#038;formWidth=480px&#038;popPosition=mc&#038;instance=339838551'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you find the parents of your students? Are they helping their children to learn, or are they more of a hindrance?<br \/>\nSome parents can be incredibly difficult to cope with, of course. And sometimes an assertive manner and explaining the boundaries between their opinions and your professional work is called for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,12],"tags":[5,33,62,66,47,11,26],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-k-6-math-vlog","category-parents-helping-children-with-math","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-classroom-teacher","tag-math-for-kids","tag-math-vlog","tag-parents-and-math","tag-school-success","tag-teaching-math","tag-video-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}