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1) Scenario 4

2) Free-Range

3) Not concerned, parent seemed neglectful and dismissive

4) Parents was uncooperative, leaving burden of coming up with the solution to the teacher

5) Try to assign the parent with something to do. Eg. Check homework, work on a project together with child

6) Well - Teacher was to the point and was looking to work together with the parent
Not well - Teacher went straight to address the negative traits of the student

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2) Free range
3) Parent is placing a lot of trust to the teacher to solve the problem.
4) Disengaged parent, appears nonchalant about her son's suspension.
5) Teacher to get more buy-in from parent to monitor child. As parent on her view on the matter.
6) Not well: Didn't explain/explore the reasons behind the problems. Feedback came too late. (3rd time facing suspension)

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1) Scenario 4
2) Free-range
3) Neglectful and unconcerned
4) Having an uninvolved parent, difficult to determine the problems faced by the child at home. Unable to work tgt. Not engaged.

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2) Free-range
3) Overly trusting the child, neglectful.
4) Teacher tried to contact parent to no avail
5) Let parent understand that she is an important stakeholder in her child's education.
Explain that the teacher needs the parent's cooperation

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1) Scenario 3
2) Free-range
3) Neglectful of child's progress in school. Unresponsive to teacher's feedback. Trusting that the child would not make mistakes
4) Uncooperative parent. Communication breakdown with parent.
5) Communicate with other guardians eg. dad, grandparents. Talk to the child too.
6) She made additional effort to follow-up with parent in Johnny's case.

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1) Scenario 2

2)  Tiger, Helicopter, Snowplough

3, 4) Tiger - Demanding of the child eg. She wants the child to be the one of Singapore's top scorers
Helicopter - Parents who are overly involved eg. making comments on school curriculum and how the teachers should teach.
Snowplough - Demanding eg. Demanding a change of class

5) Teacher to review student's performance and look into feasibility of sending child

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Scenario 2
Type of parents:
Snowplough

Demanding of school
overly protective of child

4) Differentiated learning

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1) Scenario 1
2) Snowplough parents
3) Over - protective and demanding
4)  Threatened to complain to principal without listening to teacher's explanation
5) Take more time to show concern and commitment to Andrew's situation. Talk to Andrew more to find out his issues.

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Scenario 1
2) Snowplough
3) The parent demanded for the teacher to change Andrew to another class if she couldn't do anything about the situation
4) The parent accused the teacher of not knowing and not doing anything. The parent also threatened to complain to the principal
5) Mediate the situation between the Andrew and the bullies privately and investigate both sides of the story.

Scenario 3
2) Free-range
3) Not aware of child's progress in school
4) The parent is not cooperative and it is difficult to help the child without the parent's cooperation
5) Try to engage the parent by communicating more frequently via phone calls/face-to-face & pay more attention to the child (in case he is being neglected at home or lacks home support)
6) Good point: the teacher did not reply disrespectfully when the parent was being defensive

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1) Scenario 2
2) Snowplough
3) Demanding of school to cater to child's learning progress.
4) Mixed ability class. Pace of lesson has to cater to the class.
5) Differentiated instructions. Higher order thinking activities for Bee Chu. Teach her peers.

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1) Scenario 1
2) Snowplough parents
3) Overly involved with child's daily progress in school
demanding of school
overly protective of child
4) Pressure from the parent and school (being reported to principal)
5)
Show care,
Let parent know that the teacher will investigate the matter, Provide assurance
Provide regular update, or a channel to communicate.

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For each group, kindly share your thoughts on the following below:

1)        State your Scenario (1/2/3/4)

2)           Identify the possible type of parents

3)          What are the specific traits associated with this type of parents

4)          What are some of the challenges that the teacher faced in the scenario?

5)          What are some solutions to these challenges?

6*)   What has the teacher done well or not done well in handling the situation?
(*only for scenarios 3 & 4)