The Teacher Talk Advantage: Five Voices of Effective Teaching

The Teacher Talk Advantage is filled with verbal skills that help teachers reach and teach students. It contains: Words that empower, uplift, and affirm. Phrases that motivate and inspire. Sentences that reduce power struggles and learned helplessness. Ways of speaking that build relationship through the use of empathy, understanding, and mutual respect. Verbal skills that teach personal responsibility. Strategies to help students create purpose, mission, and direction in their lives. Words that encourage students to become proficient at self-examination and self-evaluation. A voice that teaches a curriculum built not around subjects, but rather around core concepts such as honesty, diversity, responsibility, inner knowing, solution seeking, and personal power. Verbal skills necessary to help students make decisions and find their own solutions. A style of communication that deals with teaching concepts that help students learn how to become successful human beings.