Is the school year progressing at the pace you were expecting? Have you and your students hit your stride, or have there been false starts and re-dos? Has academic instruction been disrupted by the behavior of a small number of students?
For a growing number of students, behavior is the only way in which they can communicate their needs.
Managing Behavior in the School Community (formerly called Managing Difficult Students) is a series of workshops designed to aid educators in understanding behaviors that disrupt classrooms and to share strategies that promote learning. Practical applications of research-based strategies to address the full continuum of behavioral interventions and/or supports will be presented. Defining behavior, effective classroom management, using instruction to manage behavior, social competence, and behavior enhancement/reduction techniques will be explored and discussed. Strategies to de-escalate extreme acting-out behaviors and to address bullying are also subtopics of our Managing Behavior workshops.
Each workshop will provide a variety of strategies, but in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of all behaviors and a full repertoire of strategies, plan to attend all five weeks of the Managing Behaviors in the School Community series.
