Community Relationships: The Key to School Success. (An Interview with Elaine Griffin, National Teacher of the Year.)

Autor/in	Oliver, Brad E.
Titel	Community Relationships: The Key to School Success. (An Interview with Elaine Griffin, National Teacher of the Year.)
Quelle	(1996), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Alaska Natives; Awards; Beginning Teachers; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Family School Relationship; Interviews; Parent School Relationship; Rural Areas; School Community Relationship; Teacher Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inuit; Award; Auszeichnung; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Elementarunterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	The 1995 National Teacher of the Year, Elaine Griffin, teaches on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Her experiences reinforce her belief in the importance of strong school-community ties and close relationships between teachers and families. Shared staffing in this remote rural environment has allowed the teachers time away for travel and other experiences. Griffin stresses the need for beginning teachers to understand the importance of the family and to show empathy for the family, thus strengthening the family unit at a time when its stability is threatened. This empathy also allows beginning teachers to understand what is meaningful in the life of their students and to show students how education can allow them to further those things that are already meaningful to them. Community relationships are most important in creating an unbreakable bond with each student, parent, and staff member based on mutual respect and admiration. When everyone in the community assumes responsibility for education, quality education based on partnership and mutual trust is possible. Successful schools require commitment to relationships with the community. (JLS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC