Centre of Excellence for Behaviour Management Newsletter #16 2022/01/20 |
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At CEBM we are here for you. We will continue to provide you with support by offering regular online professional development opportunities. We are planning monthly sessions on a variety of topics including understanding the sensitive student, helping the student with attention problems, bullying, the science of play, teaching the hard-to-reach student, etc. Keep visiting our website, our Facebook page, as well as our YouTube channel to help you in your day-to-day practice. Eva, Martine, and Catherine |
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Upcoming Event Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
What's Behind the Behaviour? If a student hits someone, or isn’t listening to us or is screaming at the top of their lungs, the developmental approach recognizes that the behaviour is connected to something. It’s there for a reason. The student’s behaviour is telling us that they have a need that is not being met.
By seeking to understand the underlying emotions and/or environmental conditions that lead to challenging behaviours we have the opportunity to create real change. This approach may take more time, but it addresses the roots of the problem, and in this way, leads to profound and long-lasting change, not just stopping the behaviour for ten minutes, or while we are watching! | | |
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Upcoming Event Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
LAUNCH: LEGO Resource Package The CEBM is launching another project! The LEGO RESOURCE PACKAGE can have great potential in supporting students both in the classroom and in Nurturing Support Centres (NSC)/Intervention Rooms with teachers and support staff. LEGO is often undervalued and minimally used both in working through emotions and in learning contexts. Our students with emotional and behavioral challenges often gravitate towards building & creating, how can we increase the value of our intervention and support? | | |
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Upcoming Events Working with Multi-Challenged Students: Emotions are Emotions Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM Counterwill (opposition and resistance) Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM Working with students who have multiple challenges can be difficult as their behaviour is sometimes unpredictable. Add to that a limited ability to use language to communicate and situations can quickly go over the top. These two sessions will help participants to understand the role of emotions and instinct in behaviour and how to respond more effectively. | | |
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Upcoming Event Thursday, March 10th, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
Helping the Student Who is Disruptive and Alarmed Students with disruptive behaviors can often be perplexing to the adults who try to care for them. It is important to understand that a range of precipitating factors are at play and directly impact their capacity to manage their big emotions throughout the day. Interventions within the classroom, in the school and on the playground can help contain their outbursts, provide safe outlets for expression and support them in managing themselves. A team effort will be required to best support these Tier 2 and Tier 3 students with their challenging needs. | | |
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Upcoming Event Thursday, April 7th, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
Student Who is Defended and Hard to Reach Students who are defended can give the impression that they do not want to be in connection with others. It is important to understand that this a defense that is created by their brain to protect them from all that is too much to bear in their world. They need to be secured, invited into connection with adults and interventions need to proceed ever so gently. Otherwise their brain will maintain the defenses and the student will become even harder to reach. These students crave attention and connection, it needs to be provided indirectly, generously, and without coercion. Our defended and hard to reach students need to be able to rely on and trust their adults. Understanding that this is highly challenging and vulnerable for them, establishing key adults and targeted interventions are what is recommended. | | |
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Upcoming Event Thursday, May 5th, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
The Neuroscience of Play What effect does play have on the brain? How does it all work? Play is being given serious study by researchers all over the world. Play promotes development in all parts of the brain particularly in the areas of the brain responsible for problem solving, getting along with others and, very importantly, emotional well-being.
This session will look more deeply into the neuroscience of play to better understand its importance in the development of the whole child. Perhaps then we will relax and let our children and ourselves experience play not as a luxury but as an essential part of our human experience. | | |
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Upcoming Event Thursday, May 26th, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM
The Highly Sensitive Child Some students in our schools are found to be highly sensitive in nature. Researchers such as Thomas Boyce have studied these children and had found that they have an enhanced receptivity to environmental stimuli and as a result, are more affected by it. Activation of the senses can be more provocative with touch, taste, smell, or hearing for example, being heightened in reaction. This session will explore the nature of these students, how it may affect their behaviour and learning in the classroom. Then we will look at some practical ways in which a classroom teacher and school team can help to provide and environment in which these students can thrive and learn. | | |
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