Thinking, Feeling, and Behaving: A Cognitive-Emotive Model to Get Children to Control their Behavior is an education and teaching book by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher. For decades, teachers in special school settings had used cognitive-emotive techniques to help students who are chronically disruptive, in particular, children who are angry and/or aggressive. Following a system known as the A-B-C Model of Emotions troubled students are shown how their distraught behavior at point C (the consequence) is not triggered by what happened at point A (the antecedent), but by point...

School Help: A Teacher and Tutor Guide to Help the Older Student with Limited Word Reading Fluency is a book by Carmen Y. Reyes, The Psycho-Educational Teacher. Older students with limited word pronunciation or limited word fluency require a remediation approach different from remediation approaches used for younger children. One of the most common reading problems for our older students is their lack of knowledge in strategy using, simply put, weak readers do not know that to be able to pronounce longer words both fluently and with comprehension, they need to apply different word attack...

"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) influences the way students behave. Feedback and criticism that convey high and positive expectations influence positive performance, but feedback and criticism that are a constant reminder to children of inadequate performance and/or recurrent behavior problems reinforce the same low performance and...

"Persuasive Discipline: Using Power Messages and Suggestions to Influence Children Toward Positive Behavior" 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 31 language-based discipline techniques that influence positive behavior in children. The most compelling lesson learned in this child guidance guide is that, to improve our ability in disciplining children, we do not need flamboyant techniques or procedures; we just need better communication and...

The topic of this innovative guide is simple yet powerful: what adults say to children (the words we use) influences the way children behave. Feedback and criticism that convey high and positive expectations influence positive performance, but feedback and criticism that constantly remind children of inadequate performance and negative behavior reinforce the same low performance and behavior problems we wanted to extinguish in the first place. With more supportive and constructive language, parents and caregivers can make a huge difference in the way children behave; this is how influential...