.: RSS Feeds for Education Professionals Can Stop Classroom Management Problems and Streamline Your Time
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It may be a new year, but you are probably still dealing with the same old "kid problems." The bad attitudes, disrespect, peer conflict, lying, school failure or family problems didn't change when you flipped the page on the calendar. Don't let last year's problems create another difficult year. Resolve to stop using last year's failed solutions, and instead substitute updated, more effective methods like those contained in our books, instant ebooks, workshops and web site. This may be the right moment to stop using methods that didn't work well in 2005, and will fare no better in 2006. If you don't decide now to switch to updated, more effective methods, you may continue to find your job discouraging and frustrating, and your students may continue to struggle and be very hard to manage. What better time to make the switch than as you flip the page on the calendar? You might actually discover that working with difficult kids doesn't have to be so difficult. Resolve in 2006 to try these 6 new ideas to replace some of those worn-out, failed interventions that you should leave behind in 2005:
1. Chronic Problems Don't Have to Be Chronic
Classic chronic problems-- like students misbehaving when they need help-- do not have to be "the way it is." You can change chronic problem areas, and you should, because these problems take a huge toll on you, and on your students.
RESOLVE to Stop Chronic Problems
Here is a brand new intervention to use with students who act out when they need help in class: Teach your students "1, 2, 3, Help Me." It's a system that students can use to easily communicate with you when they need help. "1" means "I can do it on my own." "2" means "I need help starting," and "3" means "I'm going to need help the whole way through." Now, even non-verbal students can easily get help without acting-out.
2. Stop Guessing What to Do
Do you want your doctor guessing how to cure your illness? No, you want her to know what to do. Are you guessing why children are mute or absent? Do you wonder how to contain severe acting out? Guessing is often ineffective and can be dangerous. If you have to guess a lot, it may be a sign that your training may not have sufficiently equipped you to understand the increasingly serious emotional and behavior problems that today's students present.
RESOLVE to Stop Guessing
If you use the same generic interventions with your entire broad range of students, that's like having a single wrench in your tool box. You would have to use that wrench when you really needed a screwdriver or a hammer. How well would that work? Upgrade your skills with your students to fit all the different types of students and problems that you work with. Start with conduct disorders since conventional methods like character ed, can actually make them much worse-- and these are already your hardest-to-manage students. Visit this link to get the introductory basics: http://www.youthchg.com/hottopic.html.
3. Stop Relying on Talk
Students only remember what you say for about 30 minutes, and even then, they tend to remember only about half of what you said. Verbiage is not the best access channel to reach all students so stop making it your sole or primary approach.
RESOLVE to Use a Wider Range of Modalities
Here is a dynamite intervention that doesn't rely on what you say. It gets the job done better than mere speech. It's our popular Poster #37, "If You're Rude, You're Our Dude," reduced in size to become a handout. If you click the link, you will be able to open the handout and then print it to use with your students. It is from our brand new "Behavior Change Handouts: Becoming a Motivated and Prepared Student and Worker" ebook. This series has nearly all our dynamic handouts and you can own and print them in just seconds. You can find the ebook at http://www.youthchg.com/printable.html. You can get the handout version of Poster #37 right here if you have PDF software on your computer: http://www.youthchg.com/poster37.pdf. If you need PDF software, get it free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
4. Explore the Endless New Tools that Exist
If your tool box contained just a wrench, you'd be so happy to discover hammers and screwdrivers. That analogy may apply to the tools you are using to teach or counsel. Are you aware that there is an endless supply of more effective interventions that could make your job easier and your students more successful?
RESOLVE to Try 1 New Intervention Every Week
Here is an easy way to get 52 new methods incorporated into your skill set. Add a new, improved technique each week. Our Help and Solution Center at our site (http://www.youthchg.com/favori.html) has hundreds of methods that will work better than your old approaches.
Here is one to start: Some older students think they "know it all already." Don't use the conventional method of confronting that belief. Instead, ask them to explain what "repair and deduct" means when said by a tenant with a bad landlord. Few youngsters will know that term even though it could be terribly important. (It means that a tenant can arrange needed repairs when a landlord has failed to do so-- plus the tenant can deduct it from the rent. Don't know this? You might have to live without plumbing or heat!)
5. Put Technology to Work Solving Your "Kid Problems"
You no longer have to go looking for answers. Now you can make answers come to you. If you haven't heard about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) you are missing out on the hottest new way to put the internet to work for you.
RESOLVE to Try RSS
It is so easy to learn about RSS. Start with our site's sign up page at http://www.youthchg.com/education.html. It will explain what RSS is, and let you sign up for our feed. Every time we add new interventions, add a new resource, post another free handout, or publish another issue of this internet magazine, you will be the first to know because you will be alerted by receiving an RSS feed. No more hunting through our huge site to find the new ideas or best methods, they will come to you through RSS. Technology will have done a lot of the work for you.
6. Make Technology Your Assistant So many of you are being asked to do more with less. Because of recent technological advances on the internet, technology can do automated tasks for you, freeing more time for you to work with students.
RESOLVE to Use RSS Feeds to Save Time
When you want to know the newest requirements of "No Child Left Behind" or what decisions were made by your state Department of Education, you now probably take time to read the newspaper or go to a web site to get an update. RSS Feeds can do that work for you. For example, instead of going to the Indiana Department of Ed site to hunt for the update, you can set up a feed that brings the update to you. You no longer have to read the newspaper to get the news on schools and children. A feed can bring it to you. An example of a news feed that delivers just the news about schools and children, is shown on our web site as an example at http://www.youthchg.com/contact.html. Look for the moving scroller that is most of the way down the page.
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Get much more information on this topic at www.youthchg.com and theclassroommanagementsite.com. Ruth Herman Wells MS is the director of Youth Change, (www.youthchg.com.) See hundreds more of her innovative, problem-stopping interventions at the Youth Change web site www.youthchg.com. Ruth
is the author of dozens of books including the popular Temper and Tantrum Tamers, Turn On the Turned-Off Student, Last Chance School Success Guide and Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers. She annually trains hundreds of teachers, counselors and
youth professionals in staff development workshops, conferences, seminars and in-service throughout the country.
Ruth Wells MS is the director of Youth Change, www.youthchg.com and theclassroommanagementsite.com. Get free samples and see 100s more of her problem-stopping interventions at Youth Change's web site. Ruth is the author of dozens of books and ebooks, and conducts professional development workshops
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1). What The Heck Is RSS!
Look no further RSS exposed!
2). How to Profit Easily From RSS Data Feeds
Have you ever wondered if what you know about rss is accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on rss.
3). Step by Step RSS Feeds for New Users
New to RSS? Want to take advantage of syndicated content to promote your site? This short guide will get you started.
4). Using RSS To Promote Your Website
Learn how adding an RSS feed to your website can improve traffic and generate income.
5). Tips to Selecting an RSS News Aggregator
Copyright 2006 Sharon Housley
Reading RSS Feeds
While many have resisted the urge to decipher the meaning behind the acronym RSS, the vast majority of technically knowledgeable online surfers have begun incorporating RSS into their daily routines. Why go through the hassle of understanding something new, the novice might want to know? Because it saves time, and time is a precious commodity these days.
6). Tips for Promoting Your RSS Feed
Copyright 2006 Sharon Housley
There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So once you've made the leap and created a feed, how do you tell your visitors about the feed?
1. Submit Your RSS Feed to RSS Directories.
This will not only increase the number of sites linking to your website and increasing your link popularity, it will also increase the RSS feeds profile.
7). Cashing In With RSS Feeds
You may already know that RSS stands for Remote Site Syndication, but what does that mean to you and more importantly, how can you use RSS to help you make more money?
Simply put, RSS feeds are written in a computer language called XML, a special mark up language much like HTML. This means that they have mechanisms included that identify structures in a document.
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1). How To Display An XML Feed On Your Website
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has taken off in a big way. Just as satellite television beams more channels into your home than you can watch, RSS allows to you display an endless amount of other peoples content. Whilst RSS XML feeds are plenty, there's not as much in the way of clear, simple instruction when it comes to making use of those feeds.
If you're one of the webmasters who uses a content management system that makes using RSS XML feeds as simple as specifying a feed URL then you're fortunate in that respect.
2). RSS Feeds for Education Professionals Can Stop Classroom Management Problems and Streamline Your Time
It may be a new year, but you are probably still dealing with the same old "kid problems." The bad attitudes, disrespect, peer conflict, lying, school failure or family problems didn't change when you flipped the page on the calendar. Don't let last year's problems create another difficult year. Resolve to stop using last year's failed solutions, and instead substitute updated, more effective methods like those contained in our books, instant ebooks, workshops and web site.
3). Using RSS Fields In Communication
RSS is fast replacing email marketing and newsletters. You would not want to be left behind would you? Your competitor will surely overtake you and speed right up. RSS is mostly called Really Simple Syndication, although some give other meaning to the acronym. It is a process by which you could place a feed on websites that can read RSS from your directory.
4). RSS... and WHY Its Being Considered The Newest Player In The VIRAL Marketing Game
I have a quick question to ask you... "Are you sick and tired of hearing about RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and how it can take your online business to New levels with VERY little effort on your part?"
If you answered 'YES' to the question above then stop reading this article Right Now!
If you answered 'NO' then your going to love what I'm about to reveal to you about RSS and WHY its being consider the newest player in the VIRAL marketing game.
5). A Guide to RSS Aggregators
One of the most popular features of Internet portals, websites, pages and even emails is a frame that features an organized list of news headlines and periodic updates from other web sources. Really Simple Syndication, formerly “Rich Site Summary” or simply, RSS makes this possible.
6). 5 Reasons Why RSS Will Thrive in 2006
RSS is a technology whose time has come. Five trends driving the demand for RSS include:
1. Spam controls
As users have demanded better spam controls, ezines have lost favor. Many ezines are now scooped up by aggressive antispam measures before hitting users’ inboxes. RSS is already moving in to take the place of ezines. RSS is better suited to keeping site visitors aware of updates anyway: Site articles are best added one at a time.
7). How to Offer your Users an RSS Feed
Everyday more and more people and websites are offering RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news feeds. It is great for businesses and websites- it is free advertising for them when people read their news feed each day, and search engines like websites which offer an RSS feed, as it shows they have interesting, changing content. Here’s how to offer one.