Encouraging Words: Guiding Behavior with Language

This course helps educators intentionally build a warm, encouraging verbal environment where children feel seen, heard, and motivated to learn. We’ll explore what a “verbal climate” is, the characteristics of positive and negative verbal environments, and practical ways to shift everyday interactions toward connection. (2 Hours)
Enrollment expires 1 year from date of purchase.
This online course is presented in English.

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Course Agenda

1. Pre-Assessment
  FREE PREVIEW
1. Understanding the Verbal Environment
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Negative Verbal Environment
  FREE PREVIEW
3. When Attention Is the First Act of Care
4. Authentic Attention, Beyond Surface Compliments
5. Why This Shift Matters
6. Chapter 1 Reflection
1. Creating a Positive Verbal Environment
2. Engaging Children in Frequent Conversation
3. Following Children’s Leads to Build Relationships
4. Supporting Children’s Conversations Through Presence and Intentionality
5. Speaking Clearly, Respectfully, and in Ways Children Can Understand
6. Chapter 2 Reflection
1. Positive Verbal Strategies: An Invitation to Practice
2. Behavior Reflections as Gentle Conversation Starters
3. Purposeful Conversations
4. Starting with “Why?” and “How come?”
5. A Brief Classroom Snapshot
6. Chapter 3 Reflection
1. Using Questions to Nurture Conversational Learning
2. Avoiding Closed or Rhetorical Questions
3. Open-Ended Starters
4. Tailoring Questions Across Ages
5. Chapter 4 Review
1. Conversation Stoppers: What Shuts Dialogue Down
2. Correcting Grammar in the Heat of the Moment
3. Providing Unsolicited Advice
4. A Brief Snapshot
5. Chapter 5 Reflection
1. Paraphrase Reflections
2. How Paraphrase Reflections Support Understanding and Connection
3. Paraphrase Reflections: Warm Mirrors that Grow Children’s Language
4. An Illustrative Exchange
5. Keeping the Child’s Meaning at the Center
6. Chapter 6 Review
1. Effective Praise: Specific, Authentic, and Growth-Oriented
2. From Generic to Specific: Illustrative Transformations
3. A Classroom Snapshot
4. Recognizing vs. Praising
5. Tailoring Praise Across Ages
6. Chapter 7 Discussion
1. Wrapping Up The Course
2. End of Course Reflection
3. Course Completion
4. End of Course Quiz
5. Course Feedback Form

About this course

$19.00
2 Clock Hours
All Approved States
All Ages

Encouraging Words: Guiding Behavior with Language

Course Agenda

Getting Started

Before we begin...

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Wrapping it Up

About this course