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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…

Classroom learning is fifty percent content or instruction and fifty percent context or environment. To maximize overall classroom performance, keeping all students focused, engaged, and receptive to learning, teachers must be able to walk, smoothly and effortlessly, the very fine line between what teaching methodology is (content) and what emotional atmosphere is (context). In other words, to reach the right balance content-context, teachers need to pay attention equally both to what…

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FACTS ABOUT FEELINGS

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SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DICTIONARY WITH EXERCISES

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An attention deficit problem is defined as a significant difficulty in focusing and maintaining attention in the classroom. The main symptoms are lack of concentration, difficulty paying attention, unable to focus, difficulty remaining on task, and impulsivity; all behaviors that lead to learning problems, and may lead also to behavior problems in the classroom. There are predominantly two types: the inattentive type or ADD and the hyperactive-impulsive type or ADHD.  Children vary in the…