Beckley talked about how to break bad news to parents. This is an idea that I was very nervous about as a new teacher. One way she said worked best was to deliver the bad news like an OREO cookie, giving the good news first, then the bad news, and then another good praise about their child. This is very useful and interesting to me, I always thought you would give two praises at the beginning and then end with the bad news. A thought discussed by Mrs. Beckley was that when you give bad news to parents, you, as a teacher, must be careful not to simply brush over the issue, rather when you break the news you must be very kind and delicate because for you their child /daughter is just another part of your class, but to the parent you are calling, that child is their whole world. This is very important for me to understand as a teacher, through this idea that I have been taught I can start to become more aware of how I communicate bad news to parents and also people around me in my current life. Another thought Mrs. Beckley mentioned was to not forget about well-behaved students in a classroom. For a long time these students are often forgotten, as a parent hearing good praise about your child would be wonderful to hear. Beyond that, praising well-behaved children will often maintain good behavior