Behaviour
Training for Professionals
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do we need
consultancy-based 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.
List of Recent Educational
Work
Is this `Assertive
Discipline´ Training?
Yes. It is a
comprehensive look at 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 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.
Teacher-Training and INSET
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 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?
Our Most Recently Posted Evaluation
Results
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 behaviour management
training at the start of teaching
practice.
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