Ask Polly Bath: Kids Not Taking Specials Seriously?

Date: November 24th, 2024

Polly answers the question: “I’m a music teacher and I’m having an issue with students who refuse to listen during music excerpts and instead chat – thereby ruining it for the whole class. Separating them hasn’t made a difference. They don’t take the subject seriously and therefore come in with an attitude. What should I do?”

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Timers and Self-regulation

Date: November 13th, 2024

Here’s how to help kids self-regulate their behavior using timers during the lecture part of class.

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Behaviors and Hands-on Math?!?

Date: November 6th, 2024

You get the Unifix cubes out to teach math to youngsters and what happens? They start playing! How do you handle that behavior?

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Play Can Enhance Your Curriculum

Date: September 11th, 2024

Here’s how we can incorporate the power of play into our curriculum delivery.

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Emotions Trump Logic

Date: June 26th, 2024

Our brains are more attuned to emotions than logic. So don’t be afraid to change your delivery to reach the emotions of your students!

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Strengthen Tier 1 Behaviors

Date: May 1st, 2024

How can you use school values to strengthen Tier 1 behaviors?

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Lecture vs. Small Group Seating?

Date: February 7th, 2024

How desks are set plays a huge role in how kids focus. Set them up for success!

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Ask Polly Bath: Behavior and Learning Disabilities?

Date: August 27th, 2023

Polly answers the question: “Can you talk about how to move away from diagnoses we’ve been using to explain learning and behavior challenges, like ADHD or Autism, and more towards accepting and working with neurodiversity?”

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Social Skills Impact Behavior!

Date: August 16th, 2023

Behaviors happen when kids don’t have social skills. In order to prevent these behaviors, we need to purposefully teach social skills.

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Causal Factor of a Behavior?

Date: May 10th, 2023

Look past a child’s behavior to see what the causal factor is.

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