Behaviour Management for Teachers
This one-day learning experience for primary and secondary teachers provides
participants with conceptual and practical tools to minimise the time and energy
that they spend managing students’ behaviour. By reducing managing time,
teachers maximise their teaching time and opportunities for student learning.
Participants leave this seminar with renewed confidence and information about
how they can make small differences to their practice that have the potential
for large positive outcomes in student learning.
The content of the day is targeted at teachers who aspire to update and refine
their behaviour management practices. The models developed by Dr Richmond
evolved from school-based research in behaviour management and are unique to the
field. This work is particularly useful for its elegant simplicity and its
generic application. No matter what behaviour management approach participants
prefer, they will leave with additional techniques for:
- minimising managing time and maximising learning time
- defusing student power plays
- managing provocative and challenging student behaviour
- gaining (or regaining) assertive learning leadership in the classroom
- recovering rapidly from stressful situations
- designing a minimalist management plan, and
- reflecting on their current practices.
Behaviour Management for School Leaders
This one-day professional learning experience is designed for principals, deputy and assistant principals, heads of department, year level coordinators, pastoral care providers, school counsellors, as well as behaviour support professionals. Participants will leave with a unique organisational framework based upon a synthesis of contemporary behaviour management research and practice in Australian schools. Participants can use this framework to refine their current approaches as well as enhance their techniques for:
- helping colleagues to reflect on, and continually improve, their preferred behaviour management styles
- reducing the time and energy expended on behaviour management issues for a net increase in learning time
- working with chronically disengaged and disruptive students
- managing those inevitable crises in ways that minimise collateral damage, and
- engaging caregivers in problem solving processes.
Classic Behaviour Management Mistakes
This one-day professional learning experience is designed for all educators in contact with children and adolescents. It explores the following seven behaviour management mistakes:
- Taking student misbehaviour personally
- Reacting emotionally rather than responding intelligently
- Playing power games
- Asking students why they misbehave
- Blaming parents, television, society or planet alignment
- Sending students away to be fixed
- Relying on common sense.
Participants will leave with ideas and strategies to strengthen the following three aspects of their own behaviour management practice in relation to these common mistakes:
- How to avoid mistakes by responding more effectively
- How to quickly recognise when a mistake is being made
- How to rapidly recover the situation with dignity.
Behaviour Management for Parents
This two hour learning experience provides caregivers with conceptual and practical tools to minimise the time and energy that they spend managing their children’s behaviour. By minimising managing time, care-givers can maximise the time they spend communicating with their children in other ways. Participants leave this seminar with renewed confidence and information about how they can make small differences to their behaviour management styles that have the potential for large positive outcomes in relationships with their children.
Keynote presentations and Workshops
Keynote presentation and workshop topics for conferences are designed in collaboration with the organising group.
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