Winning Ways to Talk With Children

Scenario 1

A child enters your classroom crying and screaming not wanting mom to leave . He has just been told , this morning , his daddy is leaving his mom and two brothers to live with another woman . What would you do ? Why

To address this concern , what I can do is to approach the child with a smiling face and ask him a question in a soft voice about the cause of his crying . Based on the reading , it is necessary to communicate with a child which promotes an interest about his current

situation (Maine Cooperative Extension , 2008 . I can start with a simple Hello ' and ask him May I help you ' If the child will respond in a positive way , I can directly ask him why he is feeling bad even though I know the situation . I can come out of the classroom and accompany him to his mother outside so that the three of us can have a conversation and to let the child see that I am interested to accommodate him by having a scripted talk with his parent . One very good approach is to tell the child in front of his mother that all the kids inside the classroom are actually waiting for him to become their new friend . Having a conversation with him in front of his parent can boost his confidence with me since he will identify my presence with his mother that I am a person whom his she can trust upon his welfare . The aspect of saying to him that the whole class is waiting can entice the child that there are other people interested in him apart from his parents . Also , I could tell the child that each of the students in the class also had to cry loud during their first days in school but when they were able to meet their new friends , they had to tell their moms to leave because they know that parents cannot be involved in child 's play because they are too big which is something funny . This approach can help the child realize that he is not actually alone and that crying is a normal experience during the first day in school . Moreover , the comedic aspect of parents playing with the class ' can provide a deviation that it is actually funny and will not impose a shame effect on the part of the boy . When he calms down and after I have gained his trust , I will invite him inside the classroom and offer him a seat . I will not open up the issue about his family concerns since this may just complicate his feelings towards interacting with other people . It is much appropriate to have him forget his internal family problems at least inside class so that he can be more productive in learning Scenario 2

Your students keep getting up from their desks during journal writing time to sharpen their pencils . As they walk between the tables , they are constantly disrupting...