13/11/09 EDINBURGH: "Taking Care of Behaviour: SEALing excellent classroom practice"

"Taking Care of Behaviour: SEALing excellent classroom practice"

London - 19th June and 9th November, 2009
Birmingham - 24th June, 2009
Edinburgh - 13th November, 2009

Course Details

9.00 am Coffee and Registration
9.15 am Managing your own behaviour
- Human beings and the emotional v rational brain
- 'Certainty’, consistency and emotional control
- Role models for appropriate behaviour
10.00 am Intelligent use of meaningful praise and reward
- Discreet, sincere praise and positive reinforcement
- Material rewards v recognition rewards
- Marking moments with praise that is meaningful
11.00 am Coffee
11.20 am Rules, rituals, routines and habits
- Establishing and enforcing learning thresholds
- How routines and rituals improve behaviour
- Habits of successful teachers
12.15 am Preventative strategies and techniques
- Redirecting inappropriate behaviour
- Anticipating and diverting
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Assertiveness: attitude, language, performance
- Practical ways to be assertive
- Developing and sustaining an assertive attitude
- The verbal, tonal and physical language of behaviour management
2.30 pm Intervening without confrontation: 'win, win'
- Structuring interventions without confrontation
- Moving in and out with dignity
- Diverting the 'No'
- The benefits of personal follow up
3.15 pm Plenary
- Questions, questions
- Planning the strategies that you are going to try for the next 30 days
3.30 pm Course ends

Teachers: £220 + VAT; Student Teachers and Teaching Assistants: £145 + VAT
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