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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