IYT ( Incredible Years For Teachers ) February 2013 - September 2013)

Incredible  Years For Teachers   Positive behaviour for learning.              

 February 2014-September 2014.

This was an interesting course that made you think about how we manage children and your class management programme. Our instructors where Lesley Heenan ( Special Education Advisor | Behaviour)  and  Lorraine Millard RTLB.

Workshop 1: Building Relationships with students and Proactive Teaching 

• We selected a student to develop a behavior plan for the next month.
• Building positive relationships with students and parents
• Reflected about our management strategies and made personal goals

Workshop 2: Teacher attention, coaching, encouragement and praise

• praise - what does this mean ?
• video ourselves giving positive praise
• encourage positive self talk selected a student to develop a behavior plan for the next month ( review)
• academic coaches 
• you statements 

Workshop 3: Motivating students through incentives

• What incentives do we use to motivate our children ?
• Don't reward "almost"

Workshop 4: Decreasing Inappropriate behavior- Ignoring and redirecting

• How to decease children s inappropriate behaviors
• Stay calm
• redirecting with positive forecasting  

Workshop 5: Decreasing Inappropriate behavior- Follow through with consequences

• discipline hierarchies 
• time out _ steps and ideas  
•  Loved this saying " you don't have to blow out my candle to make yours burn brighter" 

Workshop 6: Emotional regulation, Social skills and problem solving

• problem solving
• management steps
• child developmental 1 / 2 

An extremely worth while course making you reflect your management systems and behaviour. techniques