PO016: Verbal Motivators: How They May Affect Behavior Change

  • PMD: 2,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. increase teachers' use of praise and other positive verbal motivators, which will benefit their relationships with students;
  2. reduce teachers' reliance on the use of reprimands and other negative verbal motivators; and
  3. facilitate teacher–student interactions so they are more peaceful, cooperative, and compliant.

Description

Help teachers favorably affect student behavior through the use of praise and other positive verbal motivators. Limit the use of reprimands and other negative verbal motivators, facilitating teacher–student relationships.

Presenter(s)

Gregg A. Bieber, PhD, Retired

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