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I agree that there needs to be a good rapport between the student and the teacher. Colleagues have said to me, ''...how did you get him to do that?...''   A psychiatrist working with the program I taught in once said, ''bypass the behaviors and see where they are coming from''. Change the antecedent or what the child reacts to, ...

This is an excerpt from my article, “When Children Fail in School: What Teachers and Parents Need to Know about Learned Helplessness.” You can read the complete article, plus 50+ articles in psycho-education and in alternative teaching techniques to build low academic skills on my blog, “The Psycho-Educational Teacher.” Learned ...

 Students with low math skills typically show difficulty in one or more of three main areas: math facts, computation, and/or word problems. In this education and teaching ebook by Carmen Y. Reyes, you will learn remediation activities and alternative math techniques that we can teach children to compensate for skill deficits in any one of ...

All students benefit when they understand that listening and hearing are two different behaviors, and that listening is a comprehension skill that they can learn and/or improve. Weak listeners benefit from a supportive approach coupled with the explicit teaching of learning strategies to strengthen listening comprehension.This is an education and ...

To grasp the meaning of what they are reading, one reading style does not fit all children all the time. Children need to be aware that each kind of reading (i.e. fiction and nonfiction) requires a different approach using different keys to meaning. Children also need to know which key to meaning helps in resolving the particular reading ...

As Levine (2002) states, attention is the brain’s manager, including a complicated network of controls that regulate most of the processes involved in learning and behavior. Levine, an authority in brain research and founder of ''All Kinds of Minds'', adds that attention does not accomplish anything on its own, but rather it helps the brain ...