List of Professional Development Offerings
Train the Trainer
- SMP Skills training
- SMP Skills implementation
- Learn 4 main skills that can be trained to you to apply across virtually any behavior problem you encounter in any type of setting; learn how to train this
Homework Hassles
- Children complete assignments
- Motivation for children
- Focus on reinforcement parameters and schedules
- Avoid arguments
- Let the consequences do the talking
- Stepping stones to task completion
Setting limits: Classroom Etiquette, Challenging Authority
- Establishing boundaries and rules that will be followed
- Enforcing the rules
- Negotiation
- Follow through
Using Contracts
- Why and when to use a contract
- What to include in a contract
- How to develop the contract
- Reviewing the contract with families and caregivers
Navigating Conflict
- Learn to determine function and roots of conflict
- Social Skills acquisition
- Replacement behaviors
- Positive Outcomes
Effective communication
- Learn to build solid relationships
- Learn how to talk to children
- Learn how to “know” everything you want/need to know about the child
Hear no Evil See No Evil
- Attend only to consequential behavior and that which deserves your attention/payoff
- Consequential vs. inconsequential behaviors
- How to implement the steps to Hear No Evil See No Evil
- What you ARE teaching while implementing this skill
Managing behavior in groups
- Learn how to decrease behavior problems and increase learning
- Increase participation & compliance
- Challenges in working with groups of children
- Challenges the children in groups face
- What is the payoff for the behavior?
- 4 types of consequences
- Group and individual goals
Lying
- Why does it happen
- What can you do
- Learn about coercion and motivations for lying
- What is the payoff
- How to compete with the payoff
- Use reinforcement to compete with motivation to lie
Attention span
- Learn to understand the difficulties of “paying attention”
- Learn how to help children focus without medication
- Learn to minimize competing attention grabbers
Cursing/inappropriate language
- Why does it happen?
- What can you do?
Organizing your family/class for success
- Scheduling
- Assigning jobs
- Family outings
- Group and Individual Rewards
Self Esteem
- Fill the bucket
- Types of consequences
- Effects of consequences
- Attention as a consequence
- When to use reinforcement
Using Reinforcement
- Fill the bucket
- Define behavior and consequence
- Types of consequences
- Effects of consequences
- Applying consequences
- Attention as a consequence
- When to use reinforcement
Gaining Compliance
- Create Blueprint
- Create behavioral momentum
- Employ reinforcement strategies
- Learn to communicate effectively with body language, tone and word messages
- Learn how to create contracts and negotiate
Organizing Successful Behaviors
- Consistency and Follow Through
- Offer Choices
- Teach replacement behavior and how to do it
- Don’t Give in or Give Up
Children in Foster Care
- Statistics on foster children
- Struggles they face-guilt, abandonment, helplessness, attachment issues, insecurities
- Behaviors commonly displayed
- How you can help
- Research on attachment (conditioning)
- Enrich the environment
- Shape to potential
- Re-do the missed childhood
- Teach skills
- Build relationships
- Take a walk in a foster child’s shoes
Classroom Behaviors and Tasks
- Learn to decrease behavior problems while increasing learning, participation and compliance
- Challenges in working with groups
- Challenges the children in groups face
- Label specific behavior problems
- What is the extrinsic and intrinsic payoff for the behavior?
- What is the function of behavior?
- Four types of consequences
- Use Reinforcement tips
- Group and individual goals and rewards
- Learn how to motivate children
- Focus on reinforcement parameters and schedules
- Avoid arguments
- Let the consequences do the talking
Anger Management
- Define the issue
- Learn to determine function
- Current antecedents and consequences and what is in your control to change
- How to make the change
- ABC chart with replacement A’s B’s and C’s
- USE Positive reinforcement to help eliminate unwanted outbursts
Conflict
- How to end it
- Learn how to have a quiet classroom
- Implement Hear No Evil technique
- Learn to avoid arguing—you get what you give
Using Proper Reinforcement
- Fill the bucket
- Define behavior and consequence
- Types of consequences
- Effects of consequences
- Your job with applying consequences
- Attention as a consequence
- When to use reinforcement
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