What Students Say to Themselves

Internal Dialogue and School Success
William W. Purkey - North Carolina Center for Invitational Education, Greensboro, NC
What Students Say to Themselves
November 1999 | 120 pages | Corwin
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Teach your students to talk themselves into success! Research indicates that what students say to themselves about themselves directly affects their results. Purkey explains what teachers can do to promote positive self-talk in students and how schools can become a powerful "positive signal system."

 

Contents

Listening to the Voices of the Inner Self

Listening to the Voices of the Inner Self

Developing Concepts of the Self

Developing Concepts of the Self

How Internal Dialogue Develops

How Internal Dialogue Develops

Promoting Positive and Realistic Self-Talk in Students

Promoting Positive and Realistic Self-Talk in Students

Creating School-Wide Strategies to Enhance Positive Self-Talk

Creating School-Wide Strategies to Enhance Positive Self-Talk

Description

Teach your students to talk themselves into success! Research indicates that what students say to themselves about themselves directly affects their results. Purkey explains what teachers can do to promote positive self-talk in students and how schools can become a powerful "positive signal system."

 

Contents

Listening to the Voices of the Inner Self

Listening to the Voices of the Inner Self

Developing Concepts of the Self

Developing Concepts of the Self

How Internal Dialogue Develops

How Internal Dialogue Develops

Promoting Positive and Realistic Self-Talk in Students

Promoting Positive and Realistic Self-Talk in Students

Creating School-Wide Strategies to Enhance Positive Self-Talk

Creating School-Wide Strategies to Enhance Positive Self-Talk

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What Students Say to Themselves

Internal Dialogue and School Success

William W. Purkey
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November 1999 | 120 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 01/02/2026 9780803966956 $37.95

Teach your students to talk themselves into success! Research indicates that what students say to themselves about themselves directly affects their results. Purkey explains what teachers can do to promote positive self-talk in students and how schools can become a powerful "positive signal system."

 


Table Of Contents:

  • Listening to the Voices of the Inner Self
  • Developing Concepts of the Self
  • How Internal Dialogue Develops
  • Promoting Positive and Realistic Self-Talk in Students
  • Creating School-Wide Strategies to Enhance Positive Self-Talk

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"In this concise, clearly written monograph, Purkey, a former public school teacher and currently professor of counselor education at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, describes how those who work with young people can encourage positive, realistic self-talk in themselves and their students."
J. A. Gamradt, University of New Mexico

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