Encouragement is the most valuable gift you can offer your students. It alone won’t teach them to read or spell, but without it, teaching may be more difficult than you ever dreamed. Become an encouraging teacher, an encouraging person, and you’ll have come a long way toward turning your classroom into a stimulating, creative place.
Topics include:
Establishing a democratic classroom
How to recognize and respond to student’s misbehavior
Ways to redirect our negative emotions
Specific steps to encourage students
Communication: listening and expressing ourselves to students
