Teachers spend 80% of their time and energy with 20% of the students.  This fact is testimony to the challenges that teachers face with students who are difficult, disruptive, or disorderly.  This full day workshop is intended for the secondary teachers who experience students who fit this description:  students who talk back, are defiant, don’t follow your directions, want control of your class, are silly, can’t pay attention, and won’t sit still?

Kathryn will present an interactive workshop with hundreds of practical ideas that have been proven to work with students who exhibit common challenging behaviors. Participants will develop a classroom management plan designed to keep misbehaviors to a minimum, as well as create individual management systems for the toughest of students.

Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will learn:

• The purposes of challenging behaviors
• Strategies for working with disruptive students
• Proactive techniques to communicate with parents of troublesome students
• How to avoid power struggles
• What to do when a student argues
• Strategies for working with students who have disruptive behavior disorders: conduct, ADD, and oppositional defiance and emotional problems
• To practice paradoxical responses
• How teach “replacement behaviors”
• Focusing strategies
• To develop and implement an individual behavior management plan

Outline

• Introduction
• Characteristics of the Challenging Student
  • Purposes of Challenging Behavior
  • How YOU feel
• How Teachers Handle Disruptive Students
  • Ineffective style
  • Effective response style
  • Paradoxical response style
  • The importance of rapport
• Develop a plan
  • Expectations
  • Enforcement
  • Encouragement
  • Consistency
• The Individual Behavior Plan
• Getting parental and administrator support
  • The “Problem Behavior” parent –teacher conference
  • Key phrases
  • Documentation
  • Follow up
• Disruptive Behavior Disorders
  • Conduct Disorder
    • Strategies and interventions
    • Things the DON”T  work
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
    • Environment
    • Learning styles
    • Schedules and routines
    • Focusing techniques
  • Oppositional Defiance Disorder
    • Best practices
    • Characteristics and interventions
• Question and Answer
• Conclusion

Trainer’s Profile
Kathryn is an internationally recognized presenter, consultant and author with more than 30 years of experience in education.  Her background includes teaching at all levels – preschool through university, behavioural and academic consultation, staff development and strategic planning for schools in working with special needs students.

Kathryn is a published author, consults with more than 100 school districts throughout North America each year as well as the ministry of education in the US. She speaks to more than 150 audiences a year and has trained over 14,000 educators in the last five years.   She has published nine books school professionals, including Successful Strategies for Working with Challenging Elementary School Children, A Smooth Ride: Management for Bus Drivers and Ideas that Work for Students with Sensory Processing Disorders. She is also the commentator on a full length DVD produced by the United States Bureau of Education and Research. She has made several radio and television appearances throughout the United States regarding a variety of current issues in education.

Kathryn has been providing workshops on learning issues for special needs students for over 30 years.  Her expertise of the content area is interwoven with videos, group activities, story telling, humour, and a plethora of practical strategies with hands-on examples.  A skillful educator, Kathryn recognizes that adult learners require a multi-modality approach with real life experiences, opportunities to practice and timely topic

Methodology

Target Audience
Secondary/High school educators

Duration: 1 day, 7 hours

Venue: 51 Cuppage Road, #03-00 StarHub Centre Singapore 229469

Closing Date:  21 May 05