Communication Skills

The purpose of this activity is to provide you with an opportunity to practice your communication skills for a parent-teacher conference.  A word document is included with these questions so that you can respond and upload to Canvas.     

In each of the following sentences, please re-phrase the introduction to the conferences using the guidelines discussed in the chapter.  

• In each of the following sentences, please re-phrase the introduction to the conferences using the guidelines discussed in the chapter.  (3 points)

1. “Your son never turns in his work and is failing my class”, said the teacher.
2. “Your daughter is always disrupting my class by talking and arguing with other students”, said the teacher.
3. “My daughter is being bullied by another student in your class”, said the parent.

• List four suggestions the textbook suggests for speaking with parents.  At least one must include a suggestion for speaking with a parent who is culturally or linguistically diverse. (2 points)

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After completing that, read through https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdf_case_studies/ics_defbeh.pdf and respond to the questions below. 

1. How many instances of the problem behavior (tantrums) did you observe?
2. What were the antecedents to this behavior?
3. What were the consequences to this behavior?
4. What is your hypothesis regarding the function of this behavior?