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Challenging
Behavior in Young Children:
Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively
5 to 7 Sep 07, 9am to 5pm, Singapore |
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When a child with challenging
behavior comes into their lives, teachers often find
themselves at a loss, unable to turn things around or
help the child behave appropriately. This three-days
workshop presents in-depth background information and
effective strategies to help educators understand,
prevent, and address the behavior problems found so
often in today’s primary schools and child care centers.
The evidence-based techniques provided work with the
most difficult behaviors and benefit every child in the
classroom. |
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will extend and update your knowledge base, give you
new insights, and reaffirm the importance of your
role in all children’s lives. It will provide you
with effective new ways to promote social and
emotional competence and responses to challenging
behavior.
Upon successful completion
of the workshop, the participants will: |
- Understand the risk
and protective factors in children’s lives;
- Be able to describe
the relationship between a number of risk and
protective factors and children’s behavior;
- Be able to identify
possible changes that can be made to the physical
space, program and social context in order to
prevent challenging behavior;
- Be able to identify
strategies to build positive relationships with
the child and his/her family;
- Develop skills to
connect with families and create a team approach
to challenging behavior.
- Be able to implement
strategies to intervene effectively when
challenging behavior occurs including the use of
Functional Behavior Assessment, the development of
positive behavior support plans and WEVAS
(Effectively with Violent and Aggressive States).
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| Day 1:
Promoting Social/Emotional Competence: Understanding
and Preventing Challenging Behavior |
When you recognize that a child’s challenging
behavior is rooted in biological and environmental
factors and not a desire to ruin your day, it
becomes possible for you to figure out what the
child needs to learn in order to succeed.
- What is challenging
behavior?
- What behaviors
challenge you and why?
- Investigate biological
risk factors including temperament, substance
abuse and developmental delays.
- Investigate
environmental risk factors including violence,
trauma, cultural dissonance and childcare itself.
- The concept of
fairness
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The physical environment and
behavior
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Looking at the program,
schedule and transitions and their impact on
behavior.
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Creating a positive social
context.
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Developing positive relations
with the child and his/her family.
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| Day 2:
Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support |
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The premise of the linked
strategies of Functional Assessment and Positive
Behavior Support is that every challenging behavior
can be thought of as a child’s solution to a problem
and a form of communication. This workshop will help
educators learn how to use these strategies to help
them to understand where the behavior is coming
from, why it is happening at a particular time in a
particular place, the logic behind it, and function
(or functions) it serves for the child. Even if the
behavior is unacceptable, the function seldom is.
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The impact of aversive
punishment
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Behavior as a form of
communication
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What is Positive Behavior
Support (PBS)?
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The Process of Positive
Behavior Support
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Step 1: Convene a team and
identify goals of intervention
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Step 2: Gather information
(functional assessment
A-B-C
Analysis of behavior
Possible
functions of behavior
Collecting
data
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Step 3: Develop hypotheses
Developing an
hypothesis statement
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Step 4: Design behaviour
support plans
Prevention
strategies
Replacement
skills
Responses
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Step 5: Implement, monitor,
and evaluate outcomes
Review
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| Day 3:
WEVAS Working Effectively with Violent and
Aggressive States |
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Even to the experienced teacher, challenging
behavior sometimes seems to come out of nowhere.
WEVAS helps you to recognize warning signs, see
things from the child’s perspective, and match your
response to the child’s needs
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Barbara
Kaiser is the co-author of
Challenging Behavior in Young Children and
Meeting the Challenge. She has taught in the
Education Department of Acadia University in Wolfville,
Nova Scotia, and at Concordia University and College
Marie-Victorin in Montreal, Canada.
In addition
to presenting workshops and keynote speeches on the
topic of challenging behavior throughout the United
States and Canada, Barbara has acted as the chief
consultant for several regional projects, and has
developed a comprehensive intervention designed to
address and prevent violence among young people
between the ages of 11 and 15.
Barbara was
the founder and director of the first rural daycare
center in Quebec. When she moved to Montreal, she
founded and ran another non-profit, community-based
child care center and school-age program. Her programs
became well known for their multi-age groupings and
unique use of space, which empower children and help
them learn how to make meaningful choices.
A master’s
degree in educational administration from McGill
University gives Barbara a firm theoretical
foundation, but above all her perspective is
practical, realistic, and compassionate, stemming from
decades of working with actual children in real
situations. |
Multi-media including videos, small group work,
lecture, slide presentations, individual
reflection, case studies (based upon information
that the participants will have brought with them
about a particular child in their program), and
activity-based instruction. |
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Preschool teachers, ancillary personnel,
administrators, educational assistants, mental
health consultants, behavioral and education
specialists, coordinators, support staff and
parents |
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Other Details |
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3 days, 21 hours |
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Singapore (Exact location to be advised.) |
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1 Aug 07 |
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