Managing & Changing Difficult Classroom Behavior That Interrupts Instruction
Updated: Oct 6
Available as a One-Day Workshop by Polly Bath
This excellent one-day 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)
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!
