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Member Since: July 23, 2010
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Carmen Y. Reyes


Biography

Carmen Y. Reyes,MSE, has more than twenty years of experience as a self-contained special education teacher, resource room teacher, and educational diagnostician. Carmen has taught at all grade levels, from kindergarten to post secondary. Carmen has a bachelor's degree in psychology (University of Puerto Rico) and a master's degree in special education with a specialization in emotional disorders (Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY). She also has extensive graduate training in psychology (30+ credits). Carmen is the author of 40+ books and articles in psycho-education and in alternative teaching techniques for students with low academic skills. To read Carmen's articles visit her free blog, "The Psycho-Educational Teacher."

Where to find Carmen Y. Reyes online

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Blog: http://thepsychoeducationalteacher.blogspot.com/

Books

Keys to Meaning: What Teachers and Tutors can do to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $3.99 USD. 14510 words. Published on June 9, 2011. Nonfiction.
On this ebook, you will find the most important keys to read with comprehension classified under one of three levels -word meaning, literal, and interpretive- and by the type of text that better suits the key to meaning; fiction, nonfiction, or both.
Thinking, Feeling, and Behaving: A Cognitive-Emotive Model to Teach Children How to Self-Control Behavior    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $3.99 USD. 9650 words. Published on April 6, 2011. Nonfiction.
The cognitive-emotive view states that our thoughts and self-statements determine the way we feel and behave. Using cognitive-emotive interventions children learn that controlling their thoughts is the way to emotional and behavioral self-control.
School Help: A Teacher and Tutor eGuide to Help the Older Student with Limited Math Skills    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $2.99 USD. 8870 words. Published on February 24, 2011. Nonfiction.
Students with low math skills typically show difficulty in one or more of three main areas: math facts, computation, and/or word problems. In this book, we present remediation activities and alternative math techniques that we can teach children to compensate for skill deficits in any of the three main areas.
School Help: A Teacher and Tutor eGuide to Help the Older Student with Limited Word Reading Fluency    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $2.99 USD. 9620 words. Published on January 5, 2011. Nonfiction.
To overcome a word-reading problem in an older student, teachers and tutors need to teach explicitly strategy using or cue systems. This ebook explains nine cue systems that help children read longer words fluently.
School Help: A Teacher and Tutor eGuide to Help the Older Student with Limited Vocabulary Knowledge    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $1.99 USD. 3360 words. Published on January 3, 2011. Nonfiction.
Vocabulary knowledge or word meanings is key in helping students comprehend what they hear or read in the classroom. Classroom oral and written comprehension improve when teachers take the time to develop and reinforce students' vocabulary knowledge.
School Help: A Teacher and Tutor eGuide to Help the Older Student with Limited Listening Comprehension    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $1.99 USD. 4520 words. Published on November 17, 2010. Nonfiction.
All students benefit when they understand that listening and hearing are two different behaviors, and that listening is a comprehension skill that they can learn and/or improve. Weak listeners benefit from a supportive approach coupled with the explicit teaching of strategies to develop listening comprehension.
Enhanced Psycho-Educational Interventions for Teachers: Child Guidance Skills for Managing Crises and Fights    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $2.99 USD. 7050 words. Published on September 1, 2010. Nonfiction.
Handling a student in crisis is an extremely challenging task, but at the same time, a skilled crisis management represents a unique opportunity for the student to learn new and more appropriate behaviors. In this education and teaching ebook you will learn psycho-educational strategies to manage fights, chronic acting-out episodes, as well as crises management.
Nonverbal Communication in the Classroom: Making Your Point Without Saying a Word    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $2.99 USD. 5790 words. Published on August 25, 2010. Nonfiction.
Communication is divided into two main dimensions-verbal and nonverbal. The nonverbal dimension, or body language, is defined as communication without words. A well-trained speaker can add depth, meaning, and persuasive power to any verbal message using simple nonverbal cues and signals. This educational guide trains teachers in using nonverbal messages to influence children's behaviors.
Persuasive Discipline: Using Power Messages and Suggestions to Influence Children Toward Positive Behavior/Free Book    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: Free! 8450 words. Published on August 4, 2010. Nonfiction.
Language and communication are the keys to successful discipline. Persuasive discipline is the process of communicating using just the right words to get the positive outcome we intended. Carefully chosen words and crafted messages can create the right mood in children to shift them from resistance to compliance. In this guide, you will learn 31 persuasion-based discipline techniques.
A Psycho-Education Skill Building Guide for Teachers: Social Problem-Solving/Free Education and Teaching eBook    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: Free! 4460 words. Published on July 30, 2010. Nonfiction.
Most children never learned how to handle problems or conflict in a constructive and assertive way, resorting to verbal and physically aggressive behaviors to deal with problems. Students who lack proficiency in solving social problems show more behavior problems than more proficient peers do. Teachers can decrease conflict in the classroom by giving children a tool for solving social problems.
A Psycho-Education Skill Building Guide for Teachers:The Child Guidance Approach    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $1.99 USD. 6950 words. Published on July 28, 2010. Nonfiction.
This skill-building guide puts together popular and easy-to-implement strategies that teachers can use to defuse troubling feelings and acting-out behaviors in students. Using the child guidance approach the teacher builds a helping process based on therapeutic interactions between the student and the adult.
All Behavior is Communication: How to Give Feedback, Criticism, Corrections, and Reprimands that Teach Appropriate Behavior    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $2.99 USD. 4730 words. Published on July 28, 2010. Nonfiction.
The way teachers report to students their social or academic skills, and how we acknowledge student's performance with our feedback, criticism, correction, and reprimands are decisive factors in motivating students to improve and in getting their compliance. Teachers' feedback and correction can send powerful messages to positively influence children's behavior.
Emotional Communication:Healing Children's Troubled and Angry Feelings with Empathy and Rapport    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $2.99 USD. 6170 words. Published on July 27, 2010. Nonfiction.
How a troubled child responds to us, our ability to influence and persuade the child, depends on the kind of relationship we have and the bond between us. The more the child likes us and wants to please us, the more we can influence the child. Building rapport with troubled students is key in solidifying the foundation from which any other form of intervention grows.
A Psycho-Education Skill Building Guide for Teachers: Therapeutic Listening    by Carmen Y. Reyes
Price: $1.99 USD. 4860 words. Published on July 26, 2010. Nonfiction.
To build rapport with angry, troubled, and acting-out students,and to guide children in the process of behavioral change, therapeutic listening is a key psycho-educational technique. Included in this guide are techniques like, empathy, checking perceptions, paraphrasing, clarifying, getting deeper meaning, and reflecting.

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