9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom - 3rd Edition

Participants will learn:

▪ Introduction to Love and Logic for the Classroom by Charles and Jim Fay
▪ How to deal with students who constantly talk back.
▪ How to neutralize arguing and why doing so is essential
▪ That arguing is one way that challenging students exert unhealthy control over
classrooms and schools
▪ Why reasoning with arguing students is ineffective
▪ A practical skill for disengaging from arguments by repeating one simple
statement
▪ How to apply this skill with empathy instead of anger or sarcasm
▪ The difference between affordable and unaffordable mistakes by students

Participants will learn:

▪ How to avoid arguing with students and remain calm
▪ Why consequences do not always need to be immediate
▪ How to delay consequences in a way that yields the benefits of delayed
consequences and immediate consequences at the same time
▪ The importance being strong and firm as well as kind and caring
▪ An effective classroom discipline plan
▪ Problems with repeated warnings

Participants will learn:

▪ How the human brain responds to threat by narrowing thinking and shifting
into “fight or flight”
▪ That empathy is a powerful tool for helping students remain in “thinking
mode”
▪ Practical tips for making empathy more natural even when anger feels more
natural
▪ Examples of empathetic statements to help develop personal empathetic
statements
▪ The difference between empathy and sympathy

Participants will learn:

▪ What to do when a student is so disruptive that you can’t teach.
▪ How to use the “recovery area” approach to preserve the learning environment
when one or more students become chronically disruptive
▪ The fundamentals of short-term recovery
▪ What to do if a student refuses to go to Recovery when asked
▪ Importance of following legal requirements as well as helping parents
understand the Short-Term Recovery process

Participants will learn:

▪ That challenging students cannot be coerced or bribed into behaving
or learning
▪ That positive teacher-student relationships are the key to success with such
students
▪ The “One-Sentence Intervention” technique for building successful
relationships with the most challenging students
▪ How to handle group misbehavior
▪ The importance of greeting students each day with friendly eye
contact, a smile, and a handshake

Participants will learn:

▪ How to create and set limits in ways that don’t start unnecessary and
unmanageable battles.
▪ Why it’s important for educators to set fair and consistent limits with students
▪ How to set such limits in ways that decrease resistance and power struggles
▪ How to set limits that are easily enforceable
▪ Specific examples of enforceable limits and enforceable statements
▪ How to enforce limits through actions and questions

Participants will learn:

▪ How to share the control that you don’t need to gain the control you do
▪ Guidelines for sharing control through choices within limits
▪ Specific examples of appropriate versus inappropriate choices
▪ Avoiding power struggles with “The Four Steps to Responsibility”
▪ The strategic use of choices

Participants will learn:

▪ How to minimize disruptions while managing the classroom
▪ The effectiveness of Quick and Easy Interventions
▪ How to use Quick and Easy Interventions
▪ When to use interventions versus when to use consequences
▪ Preventing misbehavior in unstructured settings

Participants will learn:

▪ Five steps for helping students learn to own and solve their problems
▪ Why it’s important that educators avoid rescuing students by solving their
problems for them
▪ How to avoid resistance while helping students learn to problem-solve
▪ Guidelines for determining when to allow students to solve problems versus
when to step in
▪ Common problems and how to address them
▪ Final thoughts