Cadiz, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Performance Learning Systems, 1989. some corner curl, the qualities and masteries that make the teacher a champion. ED503528. Paperback. Very Good.

Training the Teacher As a Champion

Education & Teaching

Hasenstab, Joseph K.

Wilson, Connie C.

Schools & Teaching

Performance Learning Systems

Positive, effective communication with your children. What parent or caregiver wouldn't want that? Unfortunately, positive communication skills aren't something everyone is born with! Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting, teaches everyone who works with and cares for children 12 time-tested skills that transform adult-child relationships. 
Parenting styles vary greatly. Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting helps parents identify the parenting style that works best for them. It teaches them how to communicate effectively within their chosen styles and according to their personal values. While supporting parents in their desire to understand and act within their own value systems, the book is a meaningful adjunct to the current interest in character education and moral responsibility. 
Being the Parent YOU Want to Be presents 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting in! an accessible, straight-forward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, opportunities to role-play before using them with children, and practice opportunities. Parents and caregivers can immediately use such skills as: 
Tell Me What's On Your Mind: A skill that reveals what a child is really thinking. Catch Them Doing It Right: A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which a child can take pride. This Is The Deal: A skill that sets up a contract between parent and child. Walk In Their Shoes: A skill that empathizes with a child's feelings. Solve The Problem: A skill that empowers a child to work with an adult to solve problems and make decisions. 
Who would benefit from this book? Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, foster parents, counselors, teachers, tutors, family court mediators, child-care providers, camp counselors, mentors, participants in Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, coaches - anyone who works with or lives with children. 
This book is set up with fill-in-the blank pages, samples, examples, practice, and role-plays which make it a perfect text or workbook for workshops or classes: parenting workshops, parent-teacher conferences, family life and life-skill classes, and classes for teen parents.

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

Parenting & Relationships

Page, Gary Screaton

Parenting

I can’t do it because it’s too hard. 
I’ll do it later. 
Why do I need to learn this anyway? 
While dedicated parents and teachers want children to be successful in school, they constantly hear excuses like these from children who don’t want to do homework. Now they can ensure this success by guiding children through new approaches for completing homework assignments offered in Homework and Kids: A Parent’s Guide. 
This exciting new book, the first in the Performance Learning Systems School Support Series, ensures success by helping parents and teachers implement new approaches that help kids complete homework assignments. Kids will get the most from homework while making it easier and more enjoyable for everyone involved. 
Anecdotes, tips, sample conversations, and suggestions are provided throughout. You will find answers to difficult questions posed to parents, teachers, and school administrators, including: 
How much homework is "too much" for a child? 
What are the best conditions for a child’s learning to be successful? 
How do I set learning and homework priorities in my home and classroom?

Homework and Kids: A Parent's Guide (School Support Series)

Haggart, William

Enhance Your Effectiveness as a Teacher and Gain a Fresh Perspective on Discipline! Have you struggled to find an approach to discipline that works with all of your students? Discipline and Learning Styles: An Educator's Guide is a handbook for K-12 teachers that explains in detail the connection between discipline and sensory learning styles. You'll learn practical strategies for: Teaching students in the ways they learn best. Avoiding conflicts before they disrupt your class. Establishing and teaching rules that gain students cooperation. Delivering warnings or reprimands in the most effective ways. Choosing consequences that promote positive behavior. Its succinct charts and tables make this an ideal resource for quick reference. At a glance, you can find out what "engaged behavior" looks like for each learning style, what typical misbehaviors you can expect from each style, and how different styles respond

Discipline and Learning Styles: An Educator's Guide (School Support Series)

WOW! describes how to make school experiences so outstanding that students, parents, and colleagues say "WOW!" How to use WOWs in various school events including the first day of school. It gives examples of real-life WOWs, tips for adding WOWs to lesson plans, connections of WOWs to brain research, and how to involve the whole school community in WOWs—students, teachers, parents, and staff.

WOW! Adding Pizzazz to Teaching and Learning

Stephen G. Barkley

Terri Bianco

Questions for Life: Powerful Strategies to Guide Critical Thinking

Barkley, Stephen G.

Instructional Coaching with the End in Mind: Using Backward Planning to Increase Student Achievement

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