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...

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 schools today. 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...

Keys to Meaning: What Teachers and Tutors Can Do to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills is an education and teaching book by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher. To grasp the meaning of what they are reading, one reading style does not fit all children all the time. Children need to be aware that each kind of reading (fiction and nonfiction) requires a different approach using a different key to grasp meaning. Weaker readers in particular benefit from knowing several reading comprehension strategies simultaneously, and in understanding which specific key to meaning helps in...

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...

"Persuasive Discipline: Using Power Messages and Suggestions to Influence Children Toward Positive Behavior-Expanded Edition" is an education and teaching book by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher. On this innovative guide, readers venture into the fascinating realm of persuasive communication, learning 40+ persuasion-based techniques that influence positive behavior in children. The most compelling lesson learned in this child discipline guide is that, to get better compliance from children, parents do not need flamboyant techniques or procedures; they just need better...