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Teacher Training > How To Guides > Student Discipline Plenty of advice in child guidance and in therapeutic approaches for teachers, school counselors, and other support staff. Unparalleled resources in behavior-influence language. Take a look at this amazing collection of psychoeducational books on Amazon: Child Guidance Methods

Teacher Training > How-To Guide An out-of-a-kind resource in student discipline! All Behavior is Communication: How to Give Feedback, Criticism, and Corrections that Improve Behavior is an education and teaching book by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher . The topic of this innovative guide is simple yet powerful: what teachers say to children (the words we use) influence the way students perform. Feedback and criticism that convey high and positive expectations influence positive performance, but feedback and criticism that constantly remind children of their low performance and/or recurrent behavior problems reinforce the same low performance and behavior problems that we want to extinguish in the first place. Teachers make the difference, that is how powerful our words and messages are. Therefore, if we want to change children’s disruptive and/or apathetic classroom behavior a first step would be to monitor, and if necessary change, the messages we sen...

Keeping the Peace: Managing Students in Conflict Using the Social Problem-Solving Approach  is a book by Carmen Y. Reyes, “The Psycho-Educational Teacher.” The issue of how to communicate effectively with distressed students represents one of the biggest challenges that teachers, administrators, and support staff face in today’s schools. A different but related problem is how to resolve a conflict happening between two or more students. These are no light issues; much of what teachers and administrators describe as discipline problems and disruptive behavior in the classroom stem from breakdowns in teacher-to-student and student-to-student communication. When these breakdowns are ignored or treated poorly, conflict spins out of control. Once in a conflictive interaction, teachers and/or staff find themselves in adversarial relationships with students. Similarly, two students in conflict see each other as enemies. Angry feelings, aggressive behavior, and in most extreme cases, vi...

Essentials of Emotional Communication for Reaching the Unreachable Student: Where Do I Start? What Do I Say? How Do I Do It? This innovative book is a comprehensive source of interactive (language-based) skills that gives teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, and administrators a unique opportunity in connecting, influencing, and guiding hard to reach students. Elsewhere, effective behavior managers are best known for their strong repertoire of interpersonal communication skills. Understanding how verbal and nonverbal messages operate in our interactions with our most challenging students enables school staff to engage distraught children in constructive interactions and in positive processing of their feelings and behaviors. Once teachers learn how to use language that contributes in the healing process of children’s troubling feelings and dysfunctional behaviors, interpersonal communication skills reach the level of emotional or therapeutic communication. This 300+ pa...

Watch Your Language! Ways of Talking and Interacting with Students that Crack the Behavior Code by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher , is a comprehensive resource (360+ pages) of skilled language-based interventions aimed at improving classroom behavior by improving the way teachers and students relate, placing special emphasis on those strained interactions with students exhibiting habitually disruptive patterns of behavior. Founded on theory and principles in interpersonal communication this interactional approach is rooted in the belief that teachers’ ways of talking play a crucial role in influencing how students behave. In other words, students’ behaviors are a reflection of both the words that teachers use and how we say those words to children. A core belief in interpersonal communication is that high expectations that are goal-oriented influence positive behaviors while low expectations lacking a behavior or academic goal influence negative behaviors. This innova...

Psychoeducation for Teachers is an innovative child guidance and therapeutic approach to classroom discipline. A must-read for teachers working with hard-to-handle, habitually disruptive, and/or emotionally troubled students. This is a great resource for school counselors and administrators too! Be part of our psycho-educational family. Like our FACEBOOK PAGE HERE .

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These are dramatic times for teachers. In educating children, we have a difficult and demanding role. Like no other, our profession is responsible in ensuring that children develop emotionally, socially, and academically. As society evolves in complexity, so does our role. With so many social and emotional issues affecting directly a student’s potential for learning, we can no longer guarantee our success in educating children relying only on academic expertise. The fact is that, like adults, in coping with modern society’s pressures and demands, children are paying a heavy emotional toll too. At alarming rates, more and more children and adolescents are experiencing all kinds of stress and trauma reactions, and at all levels of severity. This can turn into a chaotic scenario for teachers if it catches us ill-prepared. Since children’s affective and emotional status strongly influences how they perform in the classroom, it is imperative for teachers to become acquainted with how s...

I'm reading, Tips for Handling Difficult and Disruptive Students, a 6-page PDF document by  Special Education Institute  (SEI). There is plenty of advice here, including: why students misbehave, different techniques for younger and older students, keeping control of the classroom and more. You will also find links for other articles, white papers and webinars. Interesting and informative. Check it out here . A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share t...

Watch Your Language! Ways of Talking and Interacting with Students that Crack the Behavior Code (eBook Format)   is now on Kindle Countdown Deal. Hurry! Regular price returns February 4th, 2016. To buy on Amazon, click here . A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and seasoned teachers, your valuable experience ...

All Behavior is Communication Revised Second Edition: How To Give Feedback, Criticism, and Corrections That Improve Behavior (Kindle Edition)   is now FREE on my Amazon Store. Hurry! This is a three days only offer (January 14, 2016 - January 16, 2016). Get your free copy here . A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and...

Looking for information to share with my readers, I came across this extraordinary website. Project IDEAL is part of a teacher preparation program intended to equip teachers to work with students with disabilities. They have three main sections (called Modules) : (1) Disability Categories (background information), (2) IDEAL in Action (ideas to apply to real classroom situations) and a (3)  Video Library . I found this website extremely informative, and highly recommend it. You can find Project IDEAL here . A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a t...

Although parents are the primary target, teachers and school staff greatly benefit from the information included in this article. To read it, click here . A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and seasoned teachers, your valuable experience and unique perspective matter to us, so make your voices heard. Because isolated, we...

Watch Your Language! Ways of Talking and Interacting with Students that Crack the Behavior Code by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher , is a comprehensive resource (360+ pages) of skilled language-based interventions aimed at improving classroom behavior by improving the way teachers and students relate, placing special emphasis on those strained interactions with students exhibiting habitually disruptive patterns of behavior. Founded on theory and principles in interpersonal communication this interactional approach is rooted in the belief that teachers’ ways of talking play a crucial role in influencing how students behave. In other words, students’ behaviors are a reflection of both the words that teachers use and how we say those words to children. A core belief in interpersonal communication is that high expectations that are goal-oriented influence positive behaviors while low expectations lacking a behavior or academic goal influence negative behaviors. This innov...