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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...

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A popular belief in interactional and language-based discipline is that, when adults state any direction or command given to a child using positive wording , the child complies faster (and easier) than when we use negative language, i.e. negative directions or a negative command. Typically crowded with harsh terms and spoiled with negative presuppositions about the child’s character or identity, a negative direction tells the child what not to do, for example, “ Don’ t run on the hall” or “ Don’t bang on the table. What’s wrong with you today?!” (Negative presupposition: “There’s something wrong with you.”) In the same category we find the “Stop” command, for example, saying, “ Stop yelling! I’m getting a headache!” (Negative presupposition: “ You are giving me a headache.”) or “ Shut up ! I don’t want to hear another sound coming out of your mouth!” (Negative presupposition: “ Your sounds are annoying.”) Positive directions, on the other hand, give the child an alternative of...

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1.      Focus on a personal goal so that you can shift your attention from where you have been (past-oriented) to where you want to go ( future-oriented ). 2.        Create mini-goals (shorter and easier to do) branching from your bigger goal so that you move, incrementally and in more manageable terms , from where you feel you are presently to where you want to place yourself in the future. You can create a timeline such as: in two weeks, in four weeks, in three months, and finally, by the end of the academic period. 3.      Change your approach from problem-focused or what is wrong with the situation to solution-focused or what you can do to improve your interactions with the student . With a problem-focused approach, we are mostly labeling students (e.g. oppositional, messy-sloppy, or disruptive); a solution-focused approach, however, focuses us on processes (i.e. strategies, steps and procedures). 4. ...

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