Developing Independent Learners

Jane C. Wiatr; Mario C. Barbiere

doi:10.5771/9781475871289

Summary

This book for parents is a step-by-step process in the field of positive behavioral management. It clearly and concisely explains how to develop positive parenting skills. It helps parents make positive adjustments to their behavior, as well as their child’s and helps them facilitate their child into someone who takes the onus for his or her own learning, in order to become a self dependent and a regulated person. This field guide is specifically written with the parent in mind, andwill provide strategies and techniques for setting up an atmosphere that is conducive to helping your child gain self-control, self-regulation and success in learning and life. Throughout the chapters, we reference and encourage parents to make a good home/school connection to further their child’s growth and change of behavior from negative to positive by partnering with the school teacher and staff. Our Student Empowerment Program contains the 5 R’s which are responsibility, reflection, rules, regulation and rubrics. Each of these 5 components is found in a separate chapter with details regarding how the parent will build the foundational skills needed for learning self control and self regulation, and will continue until the child is able to display the techniques and skills with little or no facilitation from the parent. The skills, techniques and activities are outlined in a process that provides the parents practice time for each of the strategies. Once the strategies are learned and are fairly successful, the parent is encouraged to move forward into learning another strategy, before finally putting all together in a culmination of what is “the new natural norm” for the household. These strategies include breathing techniques, use of positive “real” language developing through what we call sightings, the development of family rule and goal setting with clear boundaries. Behavioral consequences for rules broken are addressed in short, until the rules become true boundaries to live by, and are not broken any longer. Ultimately, the parental goal of our program is for the child and family to resort to breathing through the problem, learning self regulation and control, and choosing the right path to solving the problem without a meltdown, and in a responsible way. The book is filled with visualization techniques, surveys regarding reflection, rubrics for self assessment and suggestions to make positive changes in the atmosphere of the home when necessary. There is no additional cost, just commitment and the need to want to make the change by dedicating time and positive energy to the same.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-7126-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-7128-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 108
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Use Honey Not Vinegar No access
2. Parent Strategy: Developing Self-Awareness No access
3. Foundations of the Program No access
4. Parent Strategy: Developing Your Parent Toolbox Using the Cell Phone Metaphor No access
5. Program Goal and Summary No access
1. Why Mindfulness? No access
2. 1. Parent Strategy 2.1: Mindfulness through Breathing No access
  2. Parent Strategy 2.2: Breathing and Attention No access
  3. Parent Strategy 2.3: Breathing Techniques No access
  4. Parent Strategy 2.4: Emotional Freedom Technique No access
3. 1. Parent Strategy 2.5: Magic Carpet Rides No access
4. 1. Why Is Poetry Important for Children? No access
  2. Parent Strategy 2.6: Imagery in Poetry No access
5. Summary No access
6. Notes No access
1. Basic Tips for Parents No access
2. 1. Parent Strategy 3.1 Developing a Questionnaire to Set Boundaries No access
  2. 1. Parent Questionnaire No access
  3. Value of the Questionnaire No access
3. Reflection No access
4. The Home’s Safe Place No access
5. Summary No access
1. Alpha and Beta Commands to Develop Responsibility No access
2. Promoting a “Presence of Mind” No access
3. Develop a Plan No access
4. Strategies for Developing a Template for Your Plan No access
5. A Checklist for Developing a Template No access
6. Summary No access
1. Reflection Process at Home No access
2. Reflective Examples: Acknowledge the Positive No access
3. Reflective Activity: Journal Writing or Painting No access
4. Relaxation Activity: What Do I Observe? No access
5. What Is the Appropriate Response? No access
6. Why Reflection? No access
7. Summary No access
1. Home Rules No access
2. A Common Problem—You Are Not Alone No access
3. Your Special Default Word No access
4. A True Story No access
5. 1. Rules No access
  2. Rewards No access
  3. Consequences for Breaking Rules No access
6. More on Rule Breaking No access
7. Meltdowns No access
8. What Is Feedback No access
9. The Point Credit System No access
10. Recap No access
11. Tickets Earned Are Kept and Never Removed as Punishment for Negative Behaviors No access
12. Buying with Credit No access
13. Summary No access
1. What Is the Definition of Self-Control and Self-Regulation? No access
2. A Bit of Brain Research No access
3. Important Brain Steps for Self-Regulation No access
4. A Scenario No access
5. Summary No access
1. The Early Childhood Brain on Rubrics No access
2. Written Rubrics and Verbal Rubrics No access
3. Summary No access
1. Summary No access
Bibliography No access Pages 103 - 106
About the Authors No access Pages 107 - 108