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If you have read parts I  and II are of this  series, you have seen that there is a shift for educators to use positive language to guide what we want children to do versus telling them what we don't want from them. In part II, you evaluated your own language to see if you have any communication that is negative focused versus positive (and we  all do, I catch myself all  the time reverting back to a negative language pattern).  In part III, we encourage you to have your students begin to  use positive language in  their self-talk and...

This is part II of our three part series on our language and how our words impact our students and children. In part I, we introduced the concept of positive language, common negative language that we use and the importance of a shift to positive language.  In part II, we  are challenging our readers to evaluate  your language.  Being aware of language is a great first step and we hope that our first blog post on this  topic introduced you to this concept and  practice. Now, you can take that a little bit further  and evaluate  your language.   If you...