Why do we need consultancy-based child behaviour management training?

Frankly, this is not an area that has been handled well by TT colleges. In addition to this, many colleges offer shortened courses that desperately need specialist input.

Is this `Assertive Discipline´ Training?

Yes.   It is a comprehensive look at child behaviour technique.

Do you have a philosophy behind your training?

Yes - We take an eclectic although mainly behavioural approach. We are successful because we work with strategies that enable teachers to anticipate the difficulties that pupils pose and generate a detailed response to targeted behaviour.

What is the Focus for the training ?

Practical - the explanations and activities are based on school-based problems identified each time by the set of teachers being trained.

What areas of teacher-pupil interaction are looked at?

Although the body of the work is with strategies needed to handle more serious " refusals" and disruption we place this in the framework of "delivery effectiveness".   This means we train teachers to monitor and increase the ratios of on-task behaviour. We also show the culture-changing effects on serious disruptive child behaviour of work with silent or non-challenging off-task behaviour.

Can I be confident that it will be effective ?

Yes!    The INSET and TT is very intensive. Teachers are able to construct and maintain successful `behaviour management regimes´ based on this training

You do INSET in schools and Teacher Training for teaching colleges but could a single teacher get in touch with you for advice/support?

Yes, If at all possible we will try to help.

Evaluation ?

We carefully Evaluate training - our last session typically had 100% positive feedback.

Topics Covered

Analysing (for control)

Anticipation

Attention (reinforcement)

Choosing responses to behaviour

Consistency

Contact Rate (setting & using)

Controlling feelings

Controlling how you are perceived by the pupils

Controlling interactions with pupils

Disguising your failures from your pupils

Frequency/intensity of child behaviour (controlling)

Goodwill

Handling Confrontation

Hierarchy of response

How `Signalling´ sanctions works

`Power´ and the Instigators of interactions

Intervention design

Law of Wally

Logistics - positioning & movement

Modelling behaviour

Myth of Class-control

Non-educational culture (your position)

`Positive´ sanctions (punishment)

Preparation

Reinforcing desired behaviour

Re interpretation of behaviour

Rewards

Rules

Rules for supervising detention

Sanctions (the pupil´s choice)

Shaping behaviour

Starting & Finishing

Success (reinforcing)

Teacher´s Focus

The Disruptive Sequence

Timings

What makes a person change?





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Timing the Training


Schools often have their INSET days at the same times in the Term. You will probably need to book well in advance.

For Teaching students it is best to arrange child behaviour management training at the start of teaching practice.