Module 2: Personal Power - Choices and Teacher Talk

Introduction to Personal Power

Click the image to view the Personal Power STAR Navigation Map
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In Module One you learned how to identify students who were low in Personal Power and Mental Models. In this module you will learn a variety of strategies you can use to help your students strengthen their Personal Power. These strategies help students hone their decision making skills and help them develop a sense of responsibility for their actions.

Personal Power strategies are presented in four areas:

• The Power of Choices
• The Power of Teacher Talk
• The Power of Response-Ability
• The Power of Student Confrontation
  

You will improve your ability to respond to your students' unique self-responsibility needs by having many strategy options on hand. Modules Three through Five include additional Personal Power strategies. In Module Five you will review two in-depth strategies (Problem-Return & Solution Seeking) that can be used in situations where the smaller and quicker strategies are not working. Module Six presents Mental Model strategies.

Use the STAR Maps provided to navigate through these strategies as we review them. You can click on each strategy to review it individually.

Activity Checklist

Open the Learning Activity Checklist (pdf).

Module Two Objectives

At the completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Identify and explain specific Power Strategies – instructional strategies designed to help students grow in personal power – and how they can be used in the classroom.

• Plan, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of selected Power
  Strategies in your classroom, including Teacher Talk Strategies.

*I Can Choose Reprinted from I LIKE BEING ME by Judy Lalli, 1997. 
Used with permission of Judy Lalli and Free Spirit Publishing, Minneapolis, MN,  
1-800-735-7323, www.freespirit.com. All Rights Reserved.