Present Notes:
On this episode of SLP Espresso Discuss, I reveal the secrets and techniques to making a protected and supportive atmosphere for older speech college students, providing actionable methods and insights. Learn to enhance engagement, confidence, and studying outcomes by addressing widespread errors like overemphasizing correctness and neglecting personalization. Uncover sensible strategies for fostering a community-centric speech atmosphere, selling self-advocacy, and incorporating leisure strategies. Tune in for a mix of sensible recommendation, humor, and inspiration that can depart you able to make a constructive distinction in your college students’ lives.
Here is what we discovered:
- Significance of making a protected, supportive atmosphere for older speech college students.
- Advantages embody elevated engagement, higher studying outcomes, and improved shallowness.
- Frequent SLP errors are overemphasizing correctness, lack of personalization, and inadequate constructive reinforcement.
- Methods to foster a nurturing house— construct rapport, set clear expectations, encourage open communication, and supply constant suggestions.
- Promote peer assist and collaboration.
- Educate self-advocacy, leisure strategies, and social-emotional expertise.
- Use a “consolation contract” to take care of a constructive and motivational speech room tradition.
- Incorporate scholar pursuits and studying kinds into classes.
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00:00:00 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Discuss, the podcast designed completely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 by way of 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate membership. And I am thrilled to convey you conversations, methods, and insights that gives you the jolt of inspiration that you simply want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between classes, and even throughout a properly deserved leisure time. I’m right here for you each week. Let’s do that SLPs.
00:00:46 Hallie: As SLPs, it’s important that we create a protected atmosphere for our older speech college students. We wish our college students to really feel snug and keen to take part and make errors and take dangers. That is truly a part of the inventive confidence framework that I educate within SLP Elevate, which is section two. After you perceive what targets to work on and easy methods to educate it, after which we have to make college students have enjoyable and really feel protected.
00:01:14 Hallie: So making a protected house for older speech college students is rather like offering a sturdy and well-lit greenhouse for delicate seedlings. Simply as seedlings want a protecting atmosphere to develop sturdy roots and flourish, our speech college students, particularly our older ones, require a supportive and nurturing house to construct their confidence, take dangers, and develop their communication expertise. On this protected haven, they’ll climate the challenges and uncertainties of studying, understanding that they’re sheltered and inspired each step of the best way.
00:01:54 Hallie: So making a protected house for our older speech college students provides so many advantages that I’ll share right here in the present day. So one profit is that it’ll enhance engagement and participation. When our older speech college students really feel protected and supported, they’re extra more likely to have interaction actively in speech classes which is what we wish, proper? We do not need them looking at us. And this elevated participation will result in extra follow alternatives, higher ability acquisition, and simply extra fulfilling studying expertise for you and them and their friends round them.
00:02:28 Hallie: Profit quantity two of making a protected house for our college students, it is going to improve studying and ability growth. A protected atmosphere encourages college students to take dangers and make errors, which is crucial for studying for all college students. This freedom will enable our speech college students to experiment with new strategies, new methods, compensatory methods, vocabulary phrases, no matter we’re engaged on with them, obtain constructive suggestions, proper?
00:02:56 Hallie: We aren’t simply, you recognize, hey, follow and we’re not going to inform you the way you’re doing, and refine their expertise with out worry of judgment or failure. And it isn’t simply from their friends, it is from us as properly. We have to encourage them that it’s okay that we give them that suggestions. It’s okay that you simply’re getting some assist, that if I am not supplying you with that assist, you are not going to be taught. I imply, you’d at all times be reminding them of these items.
00:03:20 Hallie: And profit quantity three of making a protected house for our college students is the improved confidence and shallowness. As college students expertise success and progress in a supportive setting, their confidence and shallowness will naturally enhance. This enhance in confidence can have a constructive affect on their general communication talents and willingness to make use of their speech expertise in actual world conditions.
00:03:45 Hallie: So I am gonna share now some errors that some SLPs would possibly make when it comes into this space of conserving our college students feeling protected and comfy and making a protected house for them. You might not notice they’re doing it. I’ve made these errors as properly. So listed here are three widespread errors that SLPs would possibly make as a way to attempt to forestall it. Perhaps you did not even notice you had been doing it.
00:04:06 Hallie: Primary, overemphasis on corrective-ness over progress. So focusing too closely on fast correctness moderately than the progress and energy the scholars are making can create a worry of creating errors. This could stifle college students’ willingness to take dangers and take a look at new strategies as they could really feel overly pressured to carry out completely. We do not need them feeling they should be excellent on a regular basis, proper? I wish to share tales of occasions after I’ve made a mistake and haven’t given up with them.
00:04:37 Hallie: All proper, mistake quantity two, insufficient personalization and suppleness, not tailoring your classes to satisfy their particular person wants and pursuits of every particular person scholar could make studying, the educational atmosphere really feel impersonal and inflexible. College students would possibly really feel disconnected or unsupported if the actions and targets do not align with their private motivations and studying kinds. We have to take the time to be taught what our college students wanna get out of coming to speech or simply faculty typically. What do they need to be after they develop up? What are their private and tutorial targets?
00:05:10 Hallie: And likewise studying about their studying kinds. There are such a lot of free studying fashion quizzes on-line the place you may take it along with your college students to indicate them that everybody learns in another way and that it is okay and that I am gonna take this data and tailor the actions right here in speech as a way to be taught optimally. And I am right here for you, and that is how one can advocate for your self. So for those who want frequent breaks, that is what you are able to do. In case you’re an auditory learner, that is what you are able to do. In case you’re a visible learner, that is what you are able to do.
00:05:38 Hallie: All proper, and mistake quantity three, lack of constant constructive reinforcement. Failing to offer common and particular constructive reinforcement can result in college students feeling undervalued and unmotivated. With out the popularity of their efforts and achievements, college students could battle to construct the arrogance essential to take part totally and take dangers of their studying journey. Okay, so even when they’re making a mistake, giving them like, nice job. I see all the trouble you have put in, you bought this, particularly with the one with, like testing, proper? We won’t inform them that they acquired issues unsuitable.
00:06:11 Hallie: So in that related sense, once we’re working with our college students, we have to at all times be encouraging them only for taking dangers, even when they acquired one thing unsuitable. At all times acknowledging the trouble that they are placing in. This fashion they’re going to be extra more likely to put that effort in for you afterward. Okay, so making a protected and comfy house for our secondary speech college students is vital to encouraging them to take dangers, asking for assist, and likewise simply feeling snug with making errors.
00:06:39 Hallie: All proper, so now let’s chat about easy methods to truly obtain this. How can we make a protected house for our college students? How can we create that heat and comfy atmosphere that our college students are excited to return to and be taught with, and that confidence to even when they make a mistake that it is okay. So listed here are a number of methods on easy methods to obtain this. All proper, so how can we do it?
00:07:01 Hallie: Technique primary, construct rapport and belief, establishing a powerful, constructive relationship along with your college students. However you are able to do this by displaying real curiosity of their lives and respecting their views, simply merely asking them about their weekend, asking about their day, and truly displaying them that you simply care, recalling their solutions, referring again to what they stated on Friday on a Monday is a option to construct rapport and belief that can elicit a protected atmosphere for them.
00:07:32 Hallie: Technique quantity two, set clear expectations. Clearly speaking the targets and expectations of your classes can go a good distance. What are we doing in the present day? Why are they right here? What do you anticipate from them? And emphasizing at all times, at all times, at all times, at all times, that making errors is a pure a part of studying. Modeling you making errors, like depart that typo in. It’s okay.
00:07:58 Hallie: Okay, however at all times, speaking clearly your session objective, why they’re there. Refer again to it on a regular basis, them, understanding why they’re there, they don’t seem to be gonna ask why am I right here, they are going to know, as a result of they know that you simply’re gonna at all times inform them that. And it helps them really feel protected understanding there is a cause for why they’re there.
00:08:16 Hallie: Technique quantity three, fostering a constructive atmosphere. You wanna create a welcoming environment with constructive affirmations and celebrating small successes and preserve that non-judgmental angle. Mannequin it to your college students in order that they know what is anticipated of making that non-judgmental angle amongst one another.
00:08:37 Hallie: Technique quantity 4, encouraging open communication. Create, open door coverage the place your college students really feel snug sharing their ideas and issues with out worry of judgment. Now this will imply whereas they’re there, but additionally they at all times can come to you and know that they’ll share one thing.
00:08:52 Hallie: That’s, whether or not they’re sharing wins like, hey, I did properly on a check, I made the soccer staff or I am having bother with one thing. Are you able to assist me? Understanding that you simply’re that individual they’ll at all times go to, and you then’re at all times there to pay attention, and you are not gonna decide them, will go a very long time.
00:09:07 Hallie: Utilizing student-centered approaches. Tailor your actions to their pursuits and desires. I am at all times encouraging SLP Elevate members, doing these icebreaker actions, however doing it all year long. At all times asking your college students what they’re into lately. Listening after they’re speaking about, what viral movies they’re watching, it is gonna offer you intel on, oh, they’re now into consuming prime or Mr. Beast had a brand new video, no matter they’re into, after which tailor your actions accordingly. That is why I give you over 30 plus themes within SLP Elevate, so you may at all times take one thing that they are into lately and convey it into your session.
00:09:45 Hallie: Technique quantity six, offering fixed suggestions, and constant suggestions. You wanna provide constructive suggestions, however that focuses on progress and enchancment moderately than corrective-ness. Keep in mind I stated within the errors that a whole lot of SLPs simply deal with correcting, correcting, correcting. We’d like them to be excellent. We have to get them right. As a substitute specializing in, nice job and that progress mindset and giving them suggestions on that and constructive constant suggestions on simply the trouble that they are placing forth, not simply correcting.
00:10:18 Hallie: Technique quantity seven, mannequin vulnerability and resilience. Share your individual experiences of creating errors and studying, they usually can mannequin your resilience and your progress mindset. I at all times love educating about well-known failures. It is a YouTube video and I’ve shared about it on a earlier podcast and I will put a hyperlink to it within the present notes, however sharing that celebrities which have failed and by no means gave up, you wanna not share simply your private tales, they’re going to share like, I am unable to draw, I did not make the soccer staff. Would not should be like, you recognize, an actual true, like, deep darkish secret that you’ve got. Make them suppose that you’re sharing, however do not.
00:10:57 Hallie: After which, selling peer assist, encouraging collaborative actions the place they’ll assist one another, fostering that sense of neighborhood. That is why blended teams, it is so vital that you simply’re truly having them work collectively and studying from one another and never working in these silo isolations as a result of then they don’t seem to be in a position to be taught and assist one another and feeling that sense of neighborhood. We wish them to really feel like, oh, different individuals make errors too. Oh, they acquired it, let’s cheer for them and like, create that like tradition of we’re right here to all assist one another and rejoice all of our wins, irrespective of how huge or small they’re.
00:11:33 Hallie: After which, need to educate self-advocacy expertise. Empower your college students to voice their wants and ask for assist when obligatory, selling independence and self-confidence. You need to create a protected house for reflection. Enable time for college students to replicate on their progress and specific any anxieties or issues that they could have. After which, in fact, you may incorporate some leisure strategies. Use mindfulness and leisure strategies to assist college students handle their stress and anxiousness.
00:12:00 Hallie: And you then additionally, lastly, can develop social emotional expertise. You possibly can combine actions that construct that emotional intelligence, equivalent to recognizing and managing feelings, empathy and efficient communication. You wanna guarantee cultural sensitivity. After which in fact, create alternatives for fulfillment. Design your duties which are difficult, get, run a design activity which are difficult, get achievable.
00:12:24 Hallie: We do not need issues too straightforward the place, like they do not see the relevance. We do not need issues too laborious the place like, that is, they’re fearful of creating a mistake and having failure. It must be that Goldilocks degree the place it is designed so it’s achievable. You are difficult sufficient the place they see like, oh, I acquired, I can put it ahead, a little bit little bit of effort. You would possibly want to begin small, get them these fast wins first.
00:12:44 Hallie: That is why it’s section one in all SLP Elevate and my philosophy, my ft, my strategy is all about getting them these fast wins. As soon as we get them these fast wins, then we will bump it up a notch, however nonetheless sustaining that achievable but difficult strategy and likewise educating them with their studying kinds, incorporating their pursuits, and displaying them why it’s related in the direction of their private targets.
00:13:07 Hallie: All these items, and all these items can actually be sure that we as SLPs can create that supportive atmosphere the place our secondary college students really feel protected to take dangers, search assist, and embrace their errors as a part of the educational journey.
00:13:22 Hallie: Okay, that is why I encourage SLP members on a regular basis to take the time firstly of the yr to construct these expectations, to construct rapport, encourage and explicitly educate progress mindset and get these fast wins out of your college students. I actually have a consolation contract you could make the most of along with your college students as a way to have that dialogue about speech being a protected house for them.
00:13:44 Hallie: And members, you will discover that below the Elevate Instruments within the bonus part. It is only a PDF printable you could print out, undergo it along with your college students, have them signal it. This fashion it is like, it has been on the market within the open. Hey, you aren’t allowed to make enjoyable of one another. You are speculated to pay attention and all of the various things that we mentioned right here. It is all in that contract so you should utilize it as a manner of introducing the tradition and expectations of the speech room.
00:14:11 Hallie: So to be taught extra about this and to get entry to assets to assist create a protected atmosphere, be at liberty to move to speech, SLPElevate.com. You need to be taught extra about my philosophies and my trainings on this strategy and get entry to extra assets on excessive curiosity assets, this consolation contract that is all inside SLP Elevate.
00:14:31 Hallie: So if you’re prepared to begin planning in minutes and having your college students excited to return to speech as a result of they really feel protected and comfy and understanding that you simply’re once more creating that atmosphere the place it is achievable but difficult, you are offering that constructive fixed suggestions, not overly correcting them. Celebrating their wins irrespective of how huge or small, and creating that open door coverage the place they really feel snug asking for assist, that is what it’s all about, proper?
00:14:58 Hallie: We wanna ensure that we’re that, we will be that one individual in our college students’ lives, of their scholar tutorial day, the place they know that one, they’ll really feel protected with you. Two, they know they’ll really feel profitable with you. And three, additionally they know that they’ll have enjoyable with you. And that’s how we get our college students motivated, they’re buy-in and seeing tons and tons of progress within the meet and in, in consequence.
00:15:21 Hallie: So hopefully you discovered this useful. Once more, if you wish to be taught extra, I’ve different follow-up episodes on incorporating scholar pursuits and creating routines and icebreakers and all that enjoyable stuff, which you’ll be able to go take a look at. I’ll hyperlink to them within the present notes, however I at all times finish my episodes with a joke, so trigger it builds rapport and one thing I love to do in my speech room that they at all times know they are going to are available and there will be a joke there for us to debate that they’ll share with their mates afterwards. So why did the trainer put on sun shades to highschool? As a result of their college students had been so vivid. Ba dum ching. All proper, till subsequent week everybody, keep out of bother.
00:16:02 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. It means the world to me that you simply’re tuning in each week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. You could find the entire hyperlinks and data talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Remember to comply with the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And when you’re there, it could imply the world to me for those who would take just a few seconds and depart me an trustworthy overview. See you subsequent week with one other episode stuffed with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable, guys.
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