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Article #179: Teacher as Life Coach - Measure, Monitor & Improve Your Students Emotional State & Behavior

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Would Columbine have been prevented if again No.
there was a means of monitoring the The first question that must be answered
student's emotional state? Would you be if you truly want to address the full
able to influence the rate of childhood spectrum of your student's behavior
obesity and eating disorders if there was is..."What determines human behavior?"
a class on how an emotional state comes You simply have nowhere to go without
about and how to take control of it? first answering this question. You need a
Would you be able to reduce teen suicide clear definitive single word answer to
if students understood how to take this question. The fact that no one is
control of their subconscious? Would you even bringing this up as a question that
have more control over your students and must be answered is an indication of how
reduce disciplinary problems by big the problem is. A resolution to all
empowering them to become independent disciplinary and behavioral problems on
thinkers? Would test scores improve if campus are dependent upon at a very
students were emotionally in control? minimum answering the question..."What
The answer to all of these questions is a determines human behavior?"
definitive yes. Everything a human being After you understand what determines your
does in life is emotionally driven. How behavior, you need a program that will
you feel about everything in your life guide you through the process of how to
will determine whether you move toward it recognize access and change your
or not. If you agree this is true then subconscious programming. This of course
how much sense does it make to at minimum brings up another question and that
measure the emotional state of your is..."Why is it important to take control
students? It makes perfect sense to Greg of your subconscious?"
Marth a Special Education teacher who It is important to take control of your
specializes in students with Behavioral subconscious because your subconscious
Disorders and is now a Certified Life runs approximately 4 times faster than
Coach and Lisa Watford who has been using you can speak. This is why you can type
a Clinically Proven Life Coach process while talking on the phone or drive while
with her students since 1992. Lisa wrote talking on the phone because the
the following comments after implementing subconscious is programmed to do the
a couple of the basic principles of a other tasks. If the subconscious was not
Life Coach program on her own. programmed to do the other tasks you
Discipline is the most difficult issue would have to focus all your conscious
educators and students face in today's attention on the task at hand. The bottom
classroom. An enriching learning line in regard to the subconscious is if
environment cannot take place without it. you are not running it, it is running you
If a child does not feel secure within and if you do not know how it works it is
the confines of the classroom then long most certainly running you.
term learning will not take place. As an The ramifications of learning how to take
educator, I use the THE Life Coach control of your subconscious go far
process to teach fifth grade students how beyond disciplinary problems, suicide
to deal with life and its complexities. prevention and school shootings. By
Our classroom has gone from a virtual giving your students these tools you are
minefield of aggressive behavior, creating independent thinkers. One
peppered with verbal confrontations, into hundred percent of what a child learns
a safe haven from which all to pass, from an adult is not going to be
parent and teachers included. I have been beneficial to them and the ability to
told there is something very different unlearn is as important as learning. In
about the way my students treat and other words you will never be able to
respect each other, themselves, and stop adults from abusing children but you
authority. Students learn their own can empower the child to have full
personal tools to change any negative control of the information from those
behavior. Issues are confronted and events so that it does not negatively
turned into positive questioning skills. affect the rest of their lives.
We use the Burris questions as our daily Implementation of Life Coaching into the
Journal topics. If someone is talking Classroom
negatively about them self or anyone else A Life Coaching program is easily
we stop and deal with how to turn that integrated into the classroom at the
negative statement into a positive beginning of every semester in any class
question. The questioning techniques of with a Certified Life Coach. The complete
THE Life Coach process are phenomenal and program process can be done in two, hour
the results are immediate. Students learn and a half classes within a five day
they do not have any control over an period. Any teacher could use the program
adult's behavior, but they do have and see the benefits without it
control over how they respond to the interfering with their regular
adults. When children are allowed to take curriculum. The program would set a
control of their behavior, they react dialogue and a way of speaking and
appropriately; not because they want to thinking that has already been proven
please the teacher, but because they have effective since 1992 when Lisa Watford
internalized the correct decisions and introduced it into her classroom of fifth
choose to act positively. We use positive graders.
questions for students with conduct Data Collection and the Emotional
marks. THE Life Coach process teaches Checklist
students life skills to find the best Every student would be given two
solutions. Grades and conduct have Emotional Checklists with the same number
improved beyond even what I could have for a before and after comparison. The
imagined. - Lisa Watford only information the student would put on
At the time Lisa wrote this letter there the Checklist is their age and gender.
was not a program specific to this age After the second session the Emotional
group as there is now. Lisa simply Checklists would be collected and the
understood that what worked well for her numbers would be matched up for
could be applied to her students. individual and group comparison. If the
Everyone at any age needs to understand students need to be identified a Client
that everything they do produces results Agreement would be taken home for the
and the question here is..."Do you want parent to sign. This two session Workshop
to benefit from the results you produce?" can be done at the beginning of every
There is now a complete Life Coach semester and the Emotional State of every
program specifically designed for Ages Student could be tracked over the entire
7-17 with the complete infrastructure for duration of the time they are in school.
data collection and study. Every teacher would have the option of
Right now the best that psychologist's implementing the program more often
psychiatrists and school counselors can should the need arise.
offer is a reasonable guess as how to Parental Involvement
address all of these problems. The Getting parents involved is a significant
question that arises in regard to any issue. This is why the version that is
issue involving human behavior is..."Can specific for the 7-17 age groups has
you fix it if you do not know how it integrated guidelines. A Certified Life
works?" The answer of course is an Coach would be able to hold separate
emphatic no. It is like pounding on the Workshops for adults which would allow
top of your radio or TV when it goes on for full understanding of the program
the blink and it suddenly comes back on. process between child and parent. With
You say to yourself I guess I fixed it the integration of THE Life Coach into
and this is where the problem is. Right the classroom there will now be a means
now everyone is guessing. Does it make by which to Measure, Monitor, Improve and
any sense to guess what works in regard Teach Your Students How to Take Control
to something as frail as the human mind? of Their Emotional State & Behavior.
The resounding answer is of course once






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