Managing Complex Behaviour Difficulties in Mainstream Schools

Details

Course Code: 80138C
Date: 6th March 2009
Venue: Shrewsbury Training & Development Centre
Time: 09:15 - 16:00

Target audience

Newly qualified teachers, teachers in the early years of their careers, experienced teachers, new and experienced leaders and managers, support staff, governors.

Course content

The course considers real situations/difficulties and how they can be managed practically. This will lead to consideration of the needs of the child, those around them, other pupils and the school as a whole. Several useful and practical checklists will be discussed as a means for reviewing these needs. Future plans for each school will be considered in relation to Every Child Matters.

Intended outcomes

• Practical methods of identifying and monitoring the needs of all involved with complex social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Practical methods of meeting these needs within the mainstream setting - how much should you be expected to do?
• Checklists to review current practices and ideas and identify priority areas for each school, in light of Every Child Matters
• Networking/buddying possibilities for professionals.

Five Outcomes: Be Healthy, Stay Safe, Enjoy and Achieve

Programme

Morning

• Identifying/monitoring/recording needs accurately: people to involve, questions to ask and how, proformas to use, links between pastoral and learning needs, links with mainstream teachers, Pastoral Support Plans (PSPs) or Individual Education Plans (IEPs), statementing
• classroom practice: reluctant pupils, reluctant teachers, ideas to try and last resorts
• what do other schools do? sharing practical ideas which work
• risk assessment procedures.

Afternoon

• Every Child Matters: what does this mean for mainstream schools and pupils with Social and Emotional Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD)?
• what should be in place/accessible in mainstream school?
• inclusion units/groups/classes, how to use them to best effect
• whole schools systems for inclusion, essential characteristics
• what now - for each school, local authority, for the pupils?

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