Challenging Behaviour and Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) at Primary Level
Summary
This seminar is intended to meet some of the initial needs of teachers in the area of challenging behaviour and students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). It explores and stimulates participants’ thinking on students with SEN and behaviours that challenge. The seminar aims to enhance participants’ understanding of why some students with SEN display challenging behaviours and to empower teachers with strategies that help to eliminate or minimise such behaviours.
Key Aims
The key aims of the seminar are:
- To examine our thinking and approaches to challenging behaviour and students with SEN
- To provide an understanding of why some students with SEN present with challenging behaviour
- To increase awareness among teachers that predictability and consistency are the most effective strategies for minimising and eliminating challenging behaviour
- To provide teachers with strategies for making the school day more predictable and consistent
Format of Event
The seminar takes two hours and normally runs without a break, but 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
This seminar is available to primary teachers via the Education Centre Network and runs as a two-hour evening seminar in local Education Centres.