All Behavior is Communication: How to Give Feedback, Criticism, and Corrections That Improve Behavior

Publisher Marketing: 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 send to students. All Behavior is Communication: How to Give Feedback, Criticism, and Corrections that Improve Behavior explains these three speech acts in detail and presents ways in which teachers can use language that is supportive of children and that inspires children to be the best they can be. This informative guide is an excellent resource for teachers, school counselors, and those parents with an interest in child guidance skills. Contributor Bio:  Reyes, Carmen Y Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher, has 20+ years of experience as a self-contained special education teacher, resource room teacher, and educational diagnostician. In the classroom, Carmen has taught at all grade levels, from kindergarten to post-secondary. Carmen is an expert in the application of behavior management strategies and in teaching students with learning or behavior problems. Her classroom background, in New York City and in her native Puerto Rico, includes 10 years teaching students labeled as emotionally disturbed, and four years teaching children with a learning disability or low cognitive functioning. Carmen has a bachelor's degree in psychology (University of Puerto Rico) and a master's degree in special education with a specialization in emotional disorders (Long Island University, Brooklyn: NY). She also has extensive graduate training in psychology (30+ credits). Carmen is a prolific writer with more than 70 books and articles in behavior and guidance of children and in alternative teaching techniques for students struggling academically. All her publications are available on her blog, The Psycho-Educational Teacher.