Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Leaving emotions out when dealing with kids can sometimes be so difficult, but I keep reminding myself that so many of my students feed off of my emotions. This occurs especially when I am frustrated over their behaviors. So, I have been trying to reinforce my set expectations without emotion in my voice and it seems to be going well. When using a firm, but calm voice with them along with keeping my face neutral, they seem to respond better.
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I think the training is useful , although I also think most of it is geared to younger students. What I mean by that is in physically restraining a child it is much easier when they are smaller. For older students I think we have to be more alert to the signals given off by them to let us know that there is a problem. I recently had a student turn very red in the face, I asked him to come out into the hall with me where he then broke into tears. Just the look on his face was enough to tell me something was very wrong.
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