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Dealing with Fear of Failure: Working with Script Concepts in the Classroom

Pages 209-215
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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One of the important tasks performed by teachers, especially with younger students, is to focus on pupils' behavior and, if necessary, to correct it. Transactional analysis script theories help teachers to understand why children act as they do and to offer options for responding more specifically to what children need so as to support them in changing their self-limiting behavior. This article presents a common school situation –fear of failure–and ways to prevent fixation of negative patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. It also describes how to practice new behavior, thinking, and feeling in the group, which helps students to increase their ability to learn as well as their chances for having good relationships with others.

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Miriam Toth

Miriam Toth is a teacher, a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (education), and an ITAA member. She has lived in Florida for the last 10 years, but before that she was a teacher in Germany for 26 years. She does transactional analysis training in Germany and Switzerland for professionals working with children. The focus of her work is the application of transactional analysis in education. She can be reached at 21407 NW 39 Court, Micanopy, Florida 32667, U.S.A.; email: .