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 words we are saying. This deeper level of communication is known in linguistic literature as ...

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 want. The goal in prompting children is to increase the probability that the behavior that we ...

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 mixed command, on the other hand, includes elements of both an initiating and a ...

This is the second part of three articles. There is no single explanation why some students feel habitual and recurrent anger, exhibiting more aggressive behaviors than other students show. Some of it might depend on the child’s earlier experiences in life. Students who show a tendency to angry and aggressive behaviors in ...

 Most children never learn how to handle problems or conflict in a constructive and assertive way, resorting to verbally and physically aggressive behaviors to deal with the problem. Students lacking proficiency in solving social problems show more behavioral problems than more proficient peers do. This FREE education and teaching eguide by ...

To build rapport with troubled students and to guide children in the process of behavioral change, therapeutic listening is a key psycho-educational technique. Included in this eguide by Carmen Y. Reyes are in-depth child guidance techniques like empathy, checking perceptions, paraphrasing, clarifying, getting deeper meaning, and reflecting.

 Language and communication are the keys to successful discipline. Persuasive discipline is the process of communicating using just the right words to get the positive outcome we intended. Carefully chosen words and crafted messages can create the right mental image and mood in children to move them away from oppositional behavior and closer ...

Although primarily we communicate with words and spoken language, communication is divided into two main dimensions -verbal and nonverbal. The nonverbal dimension of communication, or body language, is defined as communication without words. A well-trained speaker can enormously add depth, meaning, and persuasive power to any verbal message using ...

 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 ...