Addressing Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom: Creating a Strengths-Based Net of Healing, Learning, and Connection for Struggling Students

"Learn from Anywhere"
This course will introduce participants to the concepts of Adlerian & Dreikursian psychology. Their concept of using the mistaken goals of .. Read more misbehavior to problem solve with students and shift them toward prosocial behavior will be a focus of the workshop. Essential social and emotional skills will be presented and the importance of teaching them in the classroom, as well as partnering with parents to reinforce them at home through a scaffolded system of social and emotional instruction will be shared. Development, basic needs, emergent special needs, neuroscience, and systems of oppression will be introduced as nuances to this way of looking at student behavior. Participants will be introduced to the American model of the Multi-Tiered System of Supports as a well as some protocols for professional learning communities to use in creating behavior plans that center student strengths.

Highlights

• Understand the basic tenants of Adlerian psychology
• Learn how to teach students a growth mindset and shift to prosocial behaviors using encouragement
• Experience sentence frames for problem solving with students and practice using them
• Comprehend the way the brain responds to what it perceives to be physical and emotional attacks