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Communication Blockers
Our response to kids in crisis can determine whether they will continue to talk with us. Here are four common responses that tend to get in the way of good communication.
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Assertive Communication Skills
Understanding assertiveness and learning how to interact effectively within personal and business relationships is a skill that creates positive results for everyone.
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Collaborative Group Assessment Tasks
Group assessment tasks are a good way to mimic the types of projects students may face beyond education: but there are a number of important issues to consider.
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Communication Skills
The importance of communication skills for medical students.
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Communication Skills for Business
Managers spend a lot of time communicating in a variety of forms, including face-to-face. The observation of the key principles can improve this underrated skill.
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Conflict Resolution Styles
Problems with other students may be the result of ineffective conflict resolution approaches. Help your kids learn better alternatives.
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Conflict Resolution, Part One of Two
Optimal learning takes place when there is no violent behavior with which to contend. Violence seems to only perpetrate more violence. Don't get me wrong. I realize that conflict is inevitable. We are all different. However, often it's not the existence of conflict that is the problem but rather the lack of conflict resolution skills that challenges us.
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Conflict Resolution: Part Two of Two
Stories of road rage, school shootings, vicious fights, drive by shootings, should be alarming enough to all of us to make us realize that we must act now before things get so much worse, that there will be little to nothing, that we can do as educators.
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Helping Kids Develop Coping Skills
Help kids learn how to cope with everyday issues by developing skills in communicating, problem solving, and relaxation.
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Interview Communication Skills
Cultivating a good communication style helps to make a strong first impression. And taking a cue from the recruiter as to what his style is will help in the interview.
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Listening to Teens
Using good listening skills helps kids feel heard and encourages them to share their experience.
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Role of the Messenger in Improving Communication
Effective communication cannot be totally unplanned. The communication process requires a messenger aware of the traps awaiting him as well as ready to avoid those traps
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Teaching Communication Skills
Effective communication skills are the hallmark of today's society, with all the diverse forms of communication available it is especially so. This article is about teaching communication.
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Toastmasters International
Leaders and communicators learn by doing, benefit from immediate feedback from supportive peers, and practice in a positive environment in local Toastmasters clubs.
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You Are What You Communicate
How you communicate with the world determines your relationship with the world. Make it a joy-filled experience by watching what you say, and how you move through life. This article helps you reach new heights in communication know-how. . .
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Helping Kids Develop Social Communication Skills
Many of the conflicts that occur between kids are due to deficits in social communication skills. But there are strategies that can help.
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A Baby's Development
The article discusses how babies develop over time, and what parents can do to support their growth, encourage skills and lead babies toward independence. It mentions skills in the areas of physical movement, tracking, attention-span, fine motor skills, communication skills, social skills and cognitive skills.
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Alcohol Awareness Month
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and April 5th is National Alcohol Screening Day. Getting kids involved in prevention efforts is the key to keeping them alcohol free.
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Communicate Your Way To A Healthier Relationship
Learn some tools to communicate your feelings, thoughts, and ideas more effectively with your partner and start the journey towards a healthier relationship and a more fulfilled sexual life.
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Communication Builders
Communicating effectively with kids is tough. Here are communication techniques to explore feelings, identify problems and move kids to problem solving.
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Computer Science and Tech Careers
Programming, Engineering and Technology careers all require specialized classes, but there are several important skills not necessarily cultivated in front of a computer.
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Developing Skills that Win the Job
To improve career success, employees should focus not just on experience but also on their soft skills. Here are four of the top soft skills and how to develop them.
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Effective Team Leadership
Building an effective team requires a leader that is an expert communicator who supports team efforts every way possible. Learn some techniques to build a cohesive team.
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Group Learning Activities
Use these activities to help kids relax and have fun while learning new skills.
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Holiday Social Language Skills
Holiday time with family and friends is a perfect time to let your child's speech and language work shine!
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How to Communicate Clearly
Communication is hard enough without information overload and work pressure undermining concentration. Effective management requires extra effort in this area.
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How Well Do You Communicate?
If you're considering a career in health care you must be able to communicate effectively with both written and oral language skills.
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Leadership and Mindset
Great leaders all share what Dr. Carol Dweck calls the growth mindset. Learn how you can develop your leadership skills and achieve success by remaining growth-minded.
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Listening Skills for Teens
Make sure kids are familiar with these six steps for gathering spoken information.
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Pre-Kindergarten Readiness Test
Use this guide for an informal homeschooling assessment test of communication skills and basic math functions for kindergarten and pre-kindergarten readiness.
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Preventing Relational Aggression
Help girls develop the skills and attitudes that can help protect them from the pain of girl bullying and drama.
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Service Projects for Teens
Assist kids in developing social and organizational skills as well as self-confidence through involvement in service projects.
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Team Building Activities for Teens
Games are a great way to help groups of teens learn skills for working together. Skills can be learning and practiced in a fun, non-threatening way.
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Avoiding Child Power Struggles
Parents can use positive discipline principles to reduce conflicts, improve communication, and gain cooperation from a defiant child.
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Children's Television Influencing Health
The article discusses how children who watch a lot of television can suffer from physical, emotional and mental health. It also emphasises the importance of 'movement/exercise' in order to gain overall health. There is information from research findings, as well as my own opinion on the issue.
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Executive Derailment
Executive derailment is as much due to the pressure to produce as it is to individual personality traits.
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Group and Classroom Games
Use these games to help kids feel comfortable in a new environment, and to have fun while learning new skills.
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Group and Classroom Icebreakers
Try some of these games with your kids to promote interaction, cooperation and group bonding.
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Help Children to Communicate
Children at times find it difficult to converse with adults and peers. Building relationships with others is not as difficult as it may seem.
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How Stress Affects Your Memory
Scientists already knew that long-term stress impairs learning and memory. Now, research shows that even short-term stress affects cognitive skills.
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How to Improve Vocabulary and Word Skills
It is possible to develop a varied and extensive vocabulary without resorting to memorising the dictionary. Here are some tips on having fun with words.
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How to Improve Your Brain Health
Did you know your brain changes with every experience you have? These 10 tips not only improve your brain health, they also strengthen your memory & cognitive ability.
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Improve Your Relationships
Stop the anxiety and worry that occurs with misunderstanding and misinterpreting others. Check your perceptions, improve relationships and reduce stress in your life
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Language Development and Music
There is growing awareness amongst health and educational professionals regarding the benefits that music has on children's development, including language skills.
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Parent-Teen Conflicts
If it feels like every conversation with your teen ends in a shouting match, take heart - you aren't alone. Use these tips to calm the chaos and tame angry tempers.
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Preventing Teen Sexual Harassment
Strategies to help support teens in dealing with this overwhelming issue.
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Reader's Theater Curriculum
Brenda and Tom McGee's Reader's Theater and So Much More offers elementary teachers fun skits, research activities, vocabulary lessons and creative writing ideas.
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Rhetoric Affects Many Areas of Modern Life
Rhetoric is an essential component on the workforce and in everyday life and is a sign of a working democracy.
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Talking Tips For Three-Year-Olds
A Specialist Speech-Language Pathologist provides ideas on how to support children's speech and language development.
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The Talking Eight Month Old
A Specialist Paediatric Speech-Language Pathologist outlines the early language and communication skills to expect at 8 months of age and provides tips.
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