Making Your Words Work

"Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect."
Blaise Pascal

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
Budda

"Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style."
Jonathan Swift


Making Your Words Work - Using NLP to Improve Communication, Learning & Behaviour
Terry Mahony

One of the few books to focus on the application of language models for classroom management, 'Making Your Words Work' offers a large repertoire of linguistic approaches to improve communication between teacher and learner.

The book is divided into four parts.

• Part 1 focuses on the so what? of the book and contains the ideas and concepts underpinning NLP as well as recent thinking in brain research applied in the classroom.
• Part 2 explores the for what? or the why you will want to read and learn about these ideas and explores the implications they may have for your learners' and behaviour.
• Part 3 covers the how do I do it? and the different techniques and how they are used to gain different goals with the same outcome - better behaviour.
• Part 4 concerns the what next? and what you can do with the techniques in different situations.

'Making Your Words Word' certainly provides teachers with a good balance of theory and practice and will certainly support them in the development of the skills and strategies needed to move their teaching from ordinary to highly effective and from there on to extraordinary.

Buy the book from Amazon using the links below.

'Making Your Words Work' - Amazon UK

'Making Your Words Work' - Amazon US

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Anonymous