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Episode 49: Classroom Management – An Interview with Dr. Ross Green part 2

Michael — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:45:38 +0000

In this episode I continue the interview on Collaborative Problem Solving in the classroom with Dr. Ross Green, author of The Explosive Child. As I stated in the previous episode, there are a variety of classroom management techniques, all designed to help solve the issue of how to discipline children who are having behavioral problems. I think you’ll find that Dr. Green’s approach makes a lot of sense and it can be implemented in the classroom as well as at home. A fascinating interview.

Here again are the resources on this topic that I think you’ll find useful:

Collaborative Problem Solving Books and DVDs

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach
Parenting the Explosive Child: featuring Drs. Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon
Calming the Tempest : Helping the Explosive Child
Check out the Thinkkids website where you can find more information on collaborative problem solving.

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Episode 48: Classroom Management – An Interview with Dr. Ross Green

Michael — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:38:06 +0000

Classroom management techniques – there are a lot of strategies for dealing with behavior problems in the classroom. It’s time to add Collaborative Problem Solving to your toolkit. Learn an alternative to traditional classroom discipline techniques like timeout or sending the child to the principal. A recent Time magazine article entitled “How to Make Great Teachers” mentions that in a 2001 survey of teachers, 44% listed "student behavior problems" as the reason they left the profession. What can be done?

In this episode I interview Dr. Ross Green, author of The Explosive Child and the upcoming book "Lost in School". He’ll tell you how to use collaborative problem solving with your students. This episode is also for parents, daycare workers, babysitters – anyone who wants to help young people learn to think their way through everyday behavior problems.

(If I sound like the “chipmunks” on your computer, try this link instead.)

Collaborative Problem Solving Books and DVDs

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach
Parenting the Explosive Child: featuring Drs. Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon
Calming the Tempest : Helping the Explosive Child
Check out the Thinkkids website where you can find more information on collaborative problem solving.

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Site Search Tag: Development, Parenting and Childcare

Episode 31: Lemon Slices and a New Face on Mars! Gestalt Principles at Work

Michael — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:00:44 +0000

The gestalt principles of perception – how do they explain how we not only sometimes perceive strange things, but also how we can appreciate works of art? In this episode I take a close look at why people see a lot of strange things around them – including me. We’ll see images on lemon slices, on Mars, and on building tops. Why do we perceive these things?

Resources for this Podcast

Perceptual Set Experiment: go here to do the “Man on a horse” experiment I created. You can run this experiment on your friends, or even use it for a project in class. Have fun with it and let me know if you’ve got any feedback/suggestions. NOTE: The control condition is the “condition 1″ button (random pictures which are unrelated to the man on the horse). The experimental condition is the “condition 2″ button (pictures of animals which should help the viewer more easily see the man on the horse).

Here are a few sites which further explain some of the Gestalt principles of organization:

You can learn how psychological gestalt principles apply to web design at the Web Design for Instruction site

And more about psychological gestalt principles from the Spokane Falls Community College Graphic Design website.

Here’s the NASA site where you’ll find the “Face On Mars” pictures.

Here’s a good site which describes the gestalt principles. It’s from the Interaction Design website.

Here is a slideshow of some of the images used in this episode. Roll over the bottom of the box below to see thumbnails of all the images which you can click on to examine any of the photos in more detail.

Episode 23: Do Teachers Have to be Actors in the Classroom Today?

Michael — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:26:42 +0000

We often heard it said that teachers have to be actors today in order to keep the attention of today’s low attention span students. Well, in this episode I agree that teachers and actors do think alike in many ways – but not in the ways most people think. Join me as I explore how teachers and actors think alike in terms of objectives, obstacles, “raising the stakes”, and getting feedback from other actors/students.

Resources for this episode

Click here to go to the Angry Alien site where you can see the 30 second version of It’s A Wonderful Life and other very funny movie re-enactments performed by animated bunnies.
The Respect for Acting page at Amazon. The author is Uta Hagen.
The Audition page at Amzon. Author: Michael Shurtleff.
The True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor page at Amazon. Author: David Mamet.
The Sanford Meisner on Acting site on Amazon.