Behaviour Management Professional Learning

School-Based Workshops, PD Days & Whole School Behaviour Programmes

All BME P.D. is registered and approved by Pdi for the Victorian Institute of Teaching

(Flat school rate for all workshops irrespective of numbers)

· School-based in-house workshops list

These are our current suggested workshop topics but schools can also specify workshop content, emphasis and additional components.

The workshops are available on site in schools and any number of staff can attend, but must be arranged by the school, the school cluster, or the regional office.

In dialogue with ourselves, schools can mandate all workshop content.

Our workshops are very practical and emphasize the acquisition of everyday behaviour management skills and teach how to plan for behaviour.

· Behaviour focus teams

How to set up a behaviour focus team in your school.

· Jenny Mackay Seminars & Workshops at TLN, Deakin University & ISV

For teachers wanting to attend one of our "open to all" courses hosted by an accredited institution, (Deakin University, TLN or ISV the Association of Independent Schools)

Special Projects

5-Step A self-sustaining cost effective whole school behaviour management program.

Managing the "Hidden" Curriculum

Please contact us for costs, workshop content queries or bookings. Email - Training query, or just phone us on 03 9399 8491.

(For teachers in Victoria, all BME Jenny Mackay professional learning workshops reference the Victoria Institute of Teachers' Standards of Professional Practice in the following elements: 1, 3, 4, 5, & 6 and the Principles of Effective Professional Learning elements: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9, VIT credits apply. Provider evaluation code 0DDA568Q)

Suggested Workshop Topics

Section 'A' Workshops lend themselves to an effective one day seminar workshop format but can be condensed into 2 or 4 hour presentations with reduced intended outcomes.

Section 'B' Workshops are best dealt with over two days but if necessary can be presented in condensed form in one day.

Section 'A' Workshops

A1: Teachers' Engagement strategies & skills: Turning behaviour around

This full day workshop is designed to teach teachers a broad range of practical interpersonal skills for use in the classroom - to use as the occasion arises and to build cooperative student-teacher relationships. All forms of classroom behaviour can be successfully turned into cooperative relationships.

Topics covered: How to choose an appropriate response, convey needs and gain cooperation, avoid stereotyped reactions; being creative & taking 'safe' risks, tuning-in, being flexible and adaptable to situations; using modelling to build relationships. How to turn situations around and avoid being 'sucked-in'. How controlling yourself and your responses produces "good discipline".

Intended outcomes: Engaging with students. Effectively taking control in any situation, managing minor disruptions and major disturbances, preventing escalation and repetition of misbehavior, enabling responsibility and ensuring accountability for classroom and school behaviour.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 6)

A2: Positive behaviour management: Dealing with apathy and negativity

The workshop teaches practical planning for student engagement and positive classroom management. The course content also addresses the 'anti-learning' ethos pervading many schools and classrooms as well as the skills needed to deal with apathy and negativity.

Topics covered: Planning methodology. Changing attitudes - changing behaviour. dealing with negativity, how to get them on your side, enabling students to change their perceived roles, encouraging a sense of worth in both student and teacher, building resiliency. Managing groups.

Intended outcomes: A positive classroom, improved participation, greater productivity, higher levels of achievement, more positive attitudes towards learning, teaching and school, happier teachers.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 2, 4 or 6)

A3: Building Responsibility : actions and consequences

The workshop teaches the skills and techniques with which to foster taking responsibility for actions. Teachers learn to build an awareness of the relationships between rights & responsibilities, and actions & consequences, and to develop new social competencies and resiliency in their students.

Topics covered: Discipline and punishment - what am I teaching?, the concept of choice in behavior, following through and teachers' options, teaching for responsibility; the importance of reparation.

Intended outcomes: Teachers distinguish between discipline and punishment and internal vs. external control. Students acquire insight into their behavior, enabling self discipline and self control. Teachers learn to use the 'space' between a classroom behaviour and their response to that behaviour.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 2, 4 or 6)

A4: Working in the here & now: applying and working with practical behaviour management skills

Three 2 hour back-to-back practical sessions focusing on today's classroom behaviour management needs. Each session works interactively with participants using case studies relevant to situations faced by participating teachers. Participants' own concerns are also addressed.

Topics covered: How to put on the "Coat of Many Pockets." Becoming aware of covert issues disrupting the classroom. Tuning-in to students. How to know when to act and what skills to use.

Intended outcomes: The acquisition of practical skilled responses to a wide range of common classroom misbehaviours. In addition, participants will learn targeted strategies for dealing with ongoing misbehaviour.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 6)

Our discipline ethos

Children must individuate to function successfully as adults. They must be allowed to develop within boundaries which enhance that process. This implies that teachers must live with the ambiguity of permitting some appropriate acting-out and having to impose limits. The limits appropriate to school are different from those in the home, but only different in extent, not in character. The consequences of transgressing clear limits lies with the transgressor and not with the limit-setter, the "system", or the social milieu.

General Training Options

All courses can be modified to match the needs of the school, or teacher group.

Schools can also stipulate the whole content of their seminar / workshop.

Each seminar or workshop is planned around the school's specific needs, requirements and objectives.

Every school and each teacher face a unique set of issues and problems. All workshops and seminars are prefaced by consultation with the school and staff, and the workshop topic content is planned around day to day needs, issues and difficulties.

Comprehensive training option:

— A 4 module comprehensive training programme is available. This is spread over four terms and involves two 2 to 4 hour workshops per term.

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Section 'B' Workshops

Are best dealt with over two days but if necessary can be presented in condensed form in one day.

B1:

Beginning and Returning Teachers: essential engagement and behaviour management skills

This two day seminar/workshop is designed to equip teachers with essential insights into childhood and adolescent behaviour. The understanding gained forms the basis for techniques and strategies with which to engage with students and manage student conduct. Practical classroom skills are introduced and practised.

Topics covered: Behaviour planning, engagement skills, teacher responses and behaviour messages, how to develop a management strategy and practical skills for engaging and managing student behaviour. Skills for managing challenging students and all acting-out behaviour.

Intended outcomes: Teachers acquire a process of management that is simple in outline, easy to apply and extremely practical. They gain an understanding of behaviour that enables effective classroom management. Teachers learn the impact of their response and are then able to change student behaviour.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 12)

B2:

Student Engagement & Motivation: Insights and practical interactive skills

The focus for this 6 hour workshop will be the practical aspects of student engagement – the skills and strategies needed to enhance working relationships and enable students to be responsible for their work.

Topics covered: This practical, skills based workshop will explore engagement and motivation issues and enable teachers to achieve changes through gaining insights and understanding of what underlies disengaged behaviours and what drives and reinforces the behaviour of unmotivated students.

Intended outcomes: Teachers will gain the practical skills and strategies to engage disengaged and unmotivated students and to develop working relationships which impact positively on student behaviour to enable these students to develop responsibility for their own progress and a sense of involvement with their schooling.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 6)

B3:

The middle years: moving into adolescence and young adulthood (Upper primary and high school years)

A two day seminar workshop focusing on the issues of adolescent behaviour in the school and classroom.

Dealing with and managing the challenging and often difficult behaviours. How to respond in a manner which guides the young adolescent into responsible young adulthood

Age appropriate acting-out and other behaviours are dealt with by looking closely at the developmental needs of this age group. Skills to manage these behaviours are practiced and role-played.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 6 or 12)

B4:

Early years behaviour management: behaviour issues (Pre school - elementary / primary years)

A two day seminar workshop focusing on theop content looks closely at the developmental needs of young children. It lays the foundations for social and emotional competency and resiliency. Skills enabling teachers to manage the behaviours of this age group are practised and role-played.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 12)

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Managing the Hidden Curriculum

Most misbehaviour is voluntary but other forms of undisciplined acting-out are driven by age-related developmental needs or by individual problems. These 3 groups form an understanding that misbehaving students either; don’t behave, won’t behave, or can’t behave. The different groups follow agendas which together form the Hidden Curriculum in every classroom. Teachers must engage this “curriculum” throughout their teaching career by having to manage all forms of behaviour.

The 3 day course teaches the interactive interpersonal skills needed to effectively and efficiently manage behaviour generated by the Hidden Curriculum, i.e. all misbehaviour.

DAY 1: PROACTIVE STUDENT MANAGEMENT

· Understand why students misbehave & what motivates behaviour.

· Prevent misbehaviour, so students can behave.

· Generate a positive mindset by learning how to establish cooperative student engagement.

· Plan for the hidden curriculum & classroom control.

Day 2: INTERACTIVE STUDENT MANAGEMENT

· Gain knowledge of a working process and learn the skills and techniques of successful interactions between students and teachers especially when students "don't" or "can't" behave and between yourself and parents or colleagues to build better communication.

· Practice new engagement skills to improve relationships and motivation.

Day 3: RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT

· Model, manage and teach for responsibility, resilience and resolution.

· Develop strategies to bring about changes in behaviour when students can't or won't behave.

· Practice re-engagement skills to re-establish cooperative learning.

(VIT Professional development activity hours: 18)

Managing the Hidden Curriculum

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Coat of Many Pockets: Managing Classroom Interactions by Jenny Mackay ACER Press

Practical behaviour management skills for teachers

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