Low Stress Strategies for Successful Educators
- Set limits in the classroom without anger
- Provide underachievers hope and willingness when the going gets tough
- Build strong connections between home and school
- Manage and immediately handle disruptive students
- Get and keep students' attention
- Build positive student-teacher relationships
- Help students own and solve their own problems
- Diffuse power struggles
Because:
- Hand the problem back to the student who created it.
- When the student has to solve the problem, they have to think.
- They learn that decisions have consequences.
- When dealing with consequences, they learn to think and practice self control
Strategy 1: Model and teach problem solving.
Lead with empathy. “Tough problem, huh?”
Follow with a sincere question. “What do you plan to do?”
Gain permission to share. “Would you like to know what others have tried?”
Explore possible outcomes. “How do you think this might work for you?”
Allow to solve or not. “Good luck. Let me know how that works.”
Or….take ownership. “Feel free to…..when……”
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