The purpose of this article is to help instructors or other types of faculty to develop their own ST activity cues by working with individual students, or with the entire class in order to increase the students' role in affecting the learning process.

Self-talk (ST) is a strategy that has been found to change behavior by decreasing interference or distractions to better face challenges related to an impending task. Self-talk is typically a dynamic use of words, phrases or cues that may be positive, negative, instructional or motivational in nature. Physical education teachers and coaches have…