Course Overview
By completing this training you will develop multiple strategies to build rapport, enhance communication and nurture relationships with all of your students, especially those you find challenging to teach. You will better understand the impact of mood and how to interact with parents, whilst gaining significant insight and strategies to deal with student bullying and socialisation issues. You will receive a complete toolkit to increase your resilience and give you the skillset to continue to develop your teaching practice to overcome future challenges.
- Gain a deeper understanding of student behaviour.
- Manage behaviour effectively.
- Understand behaviour as a message.
- Understand the impact of mood on learning and teaching.
- Understand the importance of structure, policies and boundaries.
- Understand the vital role of flexibility and relationships.
- Improve your classroom behaviour management.
- Improve rapport with students who differ in behaviour.
- Benefit from improved relationships with your students.
- Manage bullying more effectively.
- Help build student resilience within your classroom and school community.
- Support those hard-to-reach students in your classroom.
- Improve support for students with poor socialisation skills and anxiety.
- Learn how to bounce back when things aren’t going well.
- Use strategies to support mood and feelings.
- 7 x 30min (approx.) online, on-demand highly engaging videos.
- Multiple key strategies to support poor student behaviour.
- A profiling kit for Challenging Young People (CYP).
- A boredom checklist.
- A guide for parents on bullying.
- Case studies:
- Boredom – How to identify and manage student boredom.
- Anxiety – How to support students suffering from anxiety.
- Video Gaming – Research evidence into positive features of gaming.
- Homework – How to reduce the negative impact of homework.
- ADHD – How to increase student concentration levels.
- 5 Steps to Managing Negative Emotions.
- 8 Ways to Manage Behaviour.
- 12 Tips for Transitioning to High School.
Behaviour as a Message and a Formula for Management SF3R
• The risk factors which can affect behaviour for learning• Understanding the behaviour message
• Introducing the SF3R approach
Mood Management
• Why we should focus on mood instead of behaviour management• How motivation complements mood • Applying this in practice
Structure: Policies and Expectations
• Putting this into practice• Outline how structure helps to develop safety and security for all
• Teacher and parent style with regards to supporting behaviour for learning
Flexibility including how to support children with ASD and ADHD
• Outline how flexibility complements and not contradicts Structure • Specific strategies explored and explained • What is Neurodiversity and how to support learning challenges rather than use behaviour labels?Rapport and Communication including how to support children with ODD
• To understand how to develop effective rapport through effective communication• Dealing with disruption and defiance
• Rewards and logical consequences
Relationships and dealing with Bullying and socialisation issues
• Developing effective peer to peer and sibling relationships • Dealing with bullying behaviour • Working in Partnership between school and homeResilience and how to develop this for future challenges and opportunities
• The key factors for resilience • Preparing for transitions • The seven Cs of resilience explored and explainedBehaviour as a Message and a Formula for Management SF3R
• The risk factors which can affect behaviour for learning• Understanding the behaviour message
• Introducing the SF3R approach
Mood Management
• Why we should focus on mood instead of behaviour management• How motivation complements mood • Applying this in practice
Structure: Policies and Expectations
• Putting this into practice• Outline how structure helps to develop safety and security for all
• Teacher and parent style with regards to supporting behaviour for learning
Flexibility including how to support children with ASD and ADHD
• Outline how flexibility complements and not contradicts Structure • Specific strategies explored and explained • What is Neurodiversity and how to support learning challenges rather than use behaviour labels?Rapport and Communication including how to support children with ODD
• To understand how to develop effective rapport through effective communication• Dealing with disruption and defiance
• Rewards and logical consequences
Relationships and dealing with Bullying and socialisation issues
• Developing effective peer to peer and sibling relationships • Dealing with bullying behaviour • Working in Partnership between school and homeResilience and how to develop this for future challenges and opportunities
• The key factors for resilience • Preparing for transitions • The seven Cs of resilience explored and explainedFin is one of the leading behaviour and learning specialists in the UK. He trained as a secondary Science and PE teacher after studying Zoology and Genetics at Sheffield University and remains fascinated by the impact of nurture and nature on human development. He was the Headmaster of the Centre Academy School, regarded as the first specialist school within the UK for children with ADHD/ODD from 1996 -2002. Prior to this he has been a Deputy Head, Head of Department and Science/PE teacher in schools in London, Newcastle and Washington DC. Throughout this period he has worked with a range of students and parents and this… See More…
This course will contribute towards 6 hours of professional development with the Australian Teacher Quality Institute.
A further 6 hours of Self -Identified PD can be achieved by completing the post training reading of research studies, articles, resources and reports.
These 6 hours of PD can be logged as ‘Self-Identified Accredited Professional Development’ if you are from outside any of the above education authority.