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Defusing Power Struggles Conference - January 11, 2010
Start The New Year Off Right With This Very Important Conference
DEFUSING POWER STRUGGLES WITH YOUR MOST DIFFICULT STUDENTS AND PARENTS
q DESIGNED FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, CHILD STUDY TEAM MEMBERS, OR ANY YOUTH CARE PROVIDER
- Learn the symptoms of power struggles and how to deal with them
- Build respect and rapport with your most difficult students
- Develop language that confronts without condemning
- Break through the emotional wall of your students and increase motivation, compliance and responsibility
- Strengthen relationships with your students and parents
q PROACTIVE APPROACH FOR DEALING WITH POWER STRUGGLES
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Teaching Responsiblity
Here is a great article that was emailed to me. I believe that it is well worth the read.
Teaching Children Responsibility
Q. I’m a single, working mom who works very hard trying to juggle all my responsibilities. My two children, aged nine and eleven, don’t do anything to help out at home and this frustrates me to no end. How do I get them to do something?
School Official in Dispute with State on Severance, Keansburg Superintendent Was Promised $740,000
That’s the headline and byline in an article in the New Jersey section of the New York Times dated July 6, 2008. Unless I missed something severance pay is something that people receive when they have been unexpectedly let go by their employers. They are given a few months pay to tide them over until they can get back on their feet and find another place of employment. I was a teacher and administrator in the New Jersey public schools for 27 years. I have many friends and acquaintances who have retired from their positions in New Jersey public school districts, some with more years than the Superintendent in question here, Barbara Trzeszkowski. And almost no one that I have ever heard of who has worked as an administrator in the New Jersey public schools has ever been awarded any severance package that included anything beyond money accumulated from unused sick or vacation leave. Barbara Trzeszkowski worked as the Superintendent of Keansburg for somewhere around 11 years. Before that, she was an elementary teacher there and the coordinator of curriculum and instruction for another 27 or so years. I can understand that she should receive her normal pension which would be somewhere around $120,000 a year. But it is beyond belief that she would also be awarded a severance package of $556,290.
What Is The Origin of Power Struggles?
The answer to this question is very basic. In today’s society children learn at a very early age that they can say and do almost anything they want, and they can get away with it. Children are also keenly aware that if they put up a big enough stink that their parents will eventually give in and give them their way. By the time a child has finished the so called terrible two’s his/her parents may have already lost control of the child’s behavior and just walking the child through a store can be a nightmare. What is the problem? Why do so many young children enter school and think that it is okay to throw tantrums, or have very serious problems with compliance or disrespect? Why do so many very your children simple refuse to do what their teacher tell them do just because they don’t feel like doing it?
