1. Teaching with Love and Logic Taking Control of the Classroom
how to have fun teaching and end each day energized

2. Teaching with Love and Logic no more power struggles

3. Teaching with Love and Logic
Principles of successful human interactions:
Share the control
Share the thinking
Balance consequences with empathy
Maintain self-concept

4. Teaching with Love and Logic
Three basic rules:
Use enforceable limits
Provide choices within limits
Apply consequences with empathy

5. Teaching with Love and Logic
Use enforceable limits
Effective application of limits requires that children
Have implied choices
Are forced into the thinking mode
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6. Teaching with Love and Logic
Turn your garbage into gold
Garbage Gold
Don’t talk to me in that tone I’ll be glad to listen when your
of voice! voice sounds like mine.
Raise your hand if you want I’m sure you’re anxious to talk
to talk to me. and I listen to people who raise their hands.
Open your books to page 54. I’ll be working from page 54.
Turn your paper in on time I give full credit for papers
or you’ll get a lower grade. turned in on time.

7. Teaching with Love and Logic
Provide choices within limits
I either give the other person control on my terms or s/he will take it on her/his terms.
All choices offered should make you deliriously happy: This assignment needs to be completed this week. Would you rather make the deadline Thursday or Friday? It’s up to you.

8. Teaching with Love and Logic
Very few people find it easy to think of choices when they are upset.
Rules for giving choices:
Select only choices you like
Only give choices you are willing to allow the child to experience the consequences of
Never give choices when the child is in danger
Never give choices unless you’re willing to make the choice for the child if they don’t within 10 seconds

9. Teaching with Love and Logic
The time to offer choices is when you are happy and everything is going smoothly
The Savings Account Approach
Offer as many choices as possible when there are no problems, creating a savings account of control, using phrases like “you decide”, “that’s your choice”
When control is shared in a healthy way by the teacher, there is no need for students to fight for control
Enables teacher to take withdrawals from the account when necessary: “Thanks for understanding that I need to decide this time”

10. Teaching with Love and Logic
Apply consequences with empathy
Children learn from their mistakes when
They experience the consequences of their mistakes
Adults in their environment provide empathy
If adults reprimand them, children may transform sorrow over their choice into anger with the adult.
If adults express sorrow, children have a significant learning opportunity.
CONSEQUENCES + EMPATHY = LEARNING

11. Teaching with Love and Logic
A mistake can be a great teacher, provided the child is allowed to experience the consequences of the mistake. However, it is the empathy expressed by the adult that drives the pain of the consequence into his or her heart and turns experience into long-term memory and wisdom.