Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs at Post-Primary Level: Evening Seminar
Summary
This seminar is designed to meet some of the initial needs of school teachers in the area of Challenging Behaviour and students with special educational needs (SEN). Its key aim is to enhance participants’ understanding of why some students with SEN display challenging behaviours and to empower teachers with strategies to eliminate or minimise such behaviours. While the focus of the seminar is on working with students with SEN, the content will assist teachers in using strategies to assist them in managing all pupils’ behaviour and developing a whole-school approach applicable to all students.
Key Aims
The key aims of the seminar are:
- To examine our thinking and our approaches to challenging behaviour and students with SEN
- To raise awareness of how students’ profiles, strengths, difficulties, learning styles, personalities, traits and skills influence behaviour·
- To help understand how the emotional reaction of both students and teachers affect behaviour·
- To increase awareness that predictability and consistency are the most effective strategies for minimising and eliminating challenging behaviour·
- To provide strategies for creating a learning environment which is predictable and consistent in order to help eliminate or minimise repeated instances of challenging behaviour·
- To outline how Rules and Routines need to be set up, taught and implemented·
- To explain how a whole-school consistency of approach is needed as a basis for an effective system of behaviour management.
- To provide participants with information on further reading, resources and materials to assist them in the effective management of students’ behaviour in post-primary schools.
Format of Event
This seminar is available to post-primary teachers via the Education Centre Network and runs as a two-hour evening seminar in local Education Centres. It normally runs without a break, however the content is divided into two themes:
- Theme 1: Why do some students with SEN display Challenging Behaviour
- Theme 2: What can I as a teacher do about Challenging Behaviour?
Availability
To avail of this seminar: Check for availability through the Education Centre Network.