School Parent Collaboration: An Approach to Understanding the Elements of Parents' Rights and Working with Students from Diverse Backgrounds is an academic book written for Special Education and General Education courses that is focused on School Parent Collaboration. The book targets the skills that teachers require to work successfully with parents from diverse cultural backgrounds and covers parents' rights in the United States of America. Most importantly, the book is a time saver for instructors, as it covers many life application exercises and scenarios for preservice teachers to work on in the process of the course to deepen their understanding of the concepts in each of the chapters.
Read this easy-to-use book that focuses only on the relevant concepts that teachers require to work with their students and parents.
About the Author
Dr. Cordelia Azumi Yates is an Assistant Professor of Education at the Sharon Walker School of Education, Morningside University, Sioux City, Iowa State. Before becoming a University Professor, she taught at various grade levels in the public school as a special education teacher. She has taught in Elementary, Middle, High and continuation schools. Then she became a Special Education Coordinator, a Special Education Administrator, a Learning Director, and then currently an Assistant Professor of Education in the University. She is happily married with five children.
Dr. Yates loves to watch her students at the University play basketball and derive joy in researching different academic works to improve the quality of teacher education.