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      The Positive Classroom: Turn Around Problem Behavior with Better Teacher Comments

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      Educator's Guide to Active Listening by Leah Davies, M.Ed.

      Educator's Guide to Active Listening by Leah Davies, M.Ed. Read More...

      The Teacher is the Driving Force | Edutopia

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      Helping Students Set Goals and Find Success | Edutopia

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      Believing in Students: The Power to Make a Difference | Edutopia

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      The Messages We Send to Children in the Words We Say- Part 2: Verbal Modifiers

      Many statements have two levels of meaning. One level is the basic information that we communicate with the specific words we say. The second level conveys our attitudes and feelings; most specifically, revealing what we think and how we feel about the Read More...

      Is Rewarding Good For Students? | Ibrahim Çinarbaş

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      Using Assertive Language and 'I' Messages to Tell a Student that His Behavior Bothers Us

      On this blog post, we discuss a basic child guidance intervention: telling a child that his or her behavior is troublesome. The key for any teacher here is to approach the topic in such a sensitive and empathic way so that we get the positive outcome Read More...

      Interpersonal Communication in the Classroom: How to Talk so that Your Difficult to Handle Student Listens

      On this month’s blog, I share some “tricks of the trade” in interpersonal communication so that teachers and school staff can improve efficiency in managing students that are difficult to handle and/or noncompliant. 1. Remain Calm When addressing misbehavior, Read More...

      Improving Children's Compliance-Part 3: Using Prompts

      Teachers can use prompts to remind students of the classroom rules. Silent (gestures) or verbal (words and phrases) prompting reminds a child or the class either to begin a behavior that the teacher wants or to stop a behavior that the teacher does not Read More...

      Guidelines for Criticizing Children

      This is an excerpt from my ebook All Behavior is Communication: How to Give Feedback, Criticism, Corrections, and Reprimands that Teach Appropriate Behavior . To sample the first 30% of this book free , click here . 1. As a rule, teachers and parents Read More...

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      Dear Fellow Teacher: I want to invite you to join my Facebook Page, The Psycho-Educational Teacher . This will give you instant access to all my blog posts, in addition to getting direct links to over 60 articles and books in child guidance and in alternative Read More...

      Improving Children's Compliance- Part 1: Kinds of Commands

      In the classroom, the three most common types of commands that teachers give are the initiating command, the terminating command, and the mixed command. With an initiating command , we start behavior; with the terminating command , we end behavior. A Read More...