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Article #93: Teacher As Life Coach - Measure, Monitor & Improve Your Students Emotional State & Behavior

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






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