This excellent training gets right to the heart of the matter: how can educators help change difficult behavior in the classroom, not just manage it? Focus will be on:

• Avoiding the cycle-of-conflict and staying out of power struggles;
• Saying and doing the things that will reduce problem behaviors;
• Avoiding the removal of the same students from class by teaching them the skills they lack;
• Keeping a cool head and not taking poor behavior personally;
• Predicting which assignments will stimulate poor behavior in certain students and taking steps in advance;
• Managing confrontational behavior;
• Intervening in a hostile situation;
• Managing yourself in a conflict;
• Identifying the deficit skill areas (social and academic) of the defiant student;
• Identifying what has been done already to change the behavior but that hasn’t worked;
• "Pinpointing" target behaviors on which to focus;
• Designing a plan or multiple plans to address the targeted behavior(s);
• Teaching the student new behavior skills;
• Designing and implementing behavior management "scripts" to address targeted behaviors (developed by Dr. Mike Mezzocchi); and
• Keeping the plan dynamic by assessing the plan and identifying changes if needed.

Learn how to decrease disruptive behavior! Moreover, when confrontations do arise, learn how to keep your cool when everyone else is losing theirs!

Option A: One-Day Workshop: This is a great introduction to behavior management. It is very teacher-friendly.

Option B: Training & Consulting Series: This option is for the school that wants to provide follow up and consultation to teachers and administrators working with more challenging students.

Option C: 5-day Summer Institute with optional graduate credit: A Summer Institute on this topic provides an opportunity for a group of educators to refine, develop, and deepen their skills around behavior management. Teachers and administrators will return in the fall with new concrete skills.

Participants will learn:

1. the critical components of effective communication with students;
2. their own management style with students, plus when it helps and when it hinders;
3. how to use Dr. Mike Mezzocchi’s Domain Profile, a breakthrough technique, to identify the Causal Factors for behavior (if you don’t know the Causal Factors you are just responding to symptoms, and responding to symptoms will never permanently CHANGE the behavior, nor teach the student new skills);
4. strategies for managing different levels of student behavior–one size definitely does not fit all;
5. how to pinpoint target behaviors you would most like to change;
6. how to develop plans for changing those behaviors;
7. how a school wide plan for management will improve behavior across the board;
8. how to work effectively with parents, teachers, and administrators in developing and utilizing management strategies;
9. how to manage yourself as an indispensable tool for de-escalating behavior;
10. the difference between behavior management and a plan for behavior change, and when to use which; and
11. how to reduce many behaviors by teaching social skills within the daily routine.