AWCEBD ONE DAY COURSE.

 

BEYOND BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT.

 

APRIL 27TH, THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, NORWICH

 

Course Organisers and Directors: Keith Bovair and Rich Rollinson.

 

This Course will address the need for teachers, teaching assistants, social and mental health workers, carers, and all those working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties to: -

 

·        Understand why children behave as they do

·        Manage the behaviour in the practical situation

·        Help children change the undesirable behaviours

·        Empower them to take control of their behaviours.

 

In the current climate of Social Inclusion, the term Behaviour Management is used frequently. It is important that people working with and teaching children with emotional and behavioural difficulties understand causes and have the knowledge and skills to support the changes required from both the children and the establishment. If there is to be real inclusion and on-going success, the interventions need to go beyond the dealing with the surface behaviour. This Course will enable delegates to begin to recognise this pathway.

 

Both Speakers have a depth and breadth of experience in the field of emotional and behavioural difficulties within education and the wider community.

 

Rich Rollinson

 

Rich qualified in Social Work in 1983 from Oxford. He lectured for 5 years on the Health and Social Work course at Reading University. Since 1991 he has been Director of the Mulberry Bush School and is Chair of the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities and Chair of the Research Committee. He has been a member of the Department of Health National Advisory Group on Residential Care at the NCB and is currently a member of DfEE National Advisory Group for EBD. He has lectured widely in this field.

In Sept 2001 Rich takes up a new post as Regional Director at the Peper Harrow Foundation.

 

Keith Bovair

 

Keith has worked in the field of emotional and behavioural difficulties for over 30 years. In England he has been a teacher in charge of a Unit for Intermediate treatment, a Head Teacher of a residential school for pupils with EBD in the North East, a Head Teacher of school for children with MLD in Cambridge, a Lecturer on EBD and Counselling at the University of Birmingham and is currently Head of a school for children with complex needs in Enfield.  He has published numerous books, chapters and articles and has lectured on special education, ranging from counselling, aggression, management, the role of specialist settings and modern foreign languages.

He is currently President of the European Association for Special Education and has worked closely with the DfEE, QCA and TTA during consultation processes over recent years.

 

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

10.00 – 10.15: Welcome and introduction by AWCEBD speaker.

 

10.25 – 11.15: Session One: Why do they do what they do?

This session will address how professional behaviour effects personal behaviour and the ramifications for all.    The ‘rights and wrongs’ and the ‘good and bad’ will be examined in active and responsive behaviour.

 

Outcome: delegates will understand why people might behave as they do and how circumstances and context affect feelings and behaviour.

 

11.15: - 11.45: Coffee Break

 

11.45 –13.00: Session Two: Working with the emotionally tongue-tied.

This session will examine the language we use in describing and managing behaviour and feelings that lie behind the behaviour. It will address children’s needs to be able to talk about their feelings – emotional literacy – and find that many children are emotionally illiterate.

 

Outcome: delegates will understand the need for children to be able to talk about their feelings before they can control the behaviour that expresses them, often in an inappropriate way.  They will learn what Emotional Literacy is and how to help children become emotionally literate.

 

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

 

14.00 – 15.45: Session Three:  Behaviour management vs. replacing and shaping behaviour.

This session will look at the appropriate frameworks for owning, replacing and shaping behaviour and expectations that we all have.  It will give examples of ways to help children take control of their own behaviour for long term impact rather than short term results.

 

Outcome:  delegates will understand and be able to transfer to their workplace, how to help children change their behaviour and remain in control.

 

The sessions will be informative, interactive and constructional.

 

 

13.45 – 16.00: Closure by AWCEBD speaker.

 

 

Delegate Fees: AWCEBD Members £75, Non-Members £90

 

 

Details and booking facilities available from:-

 

Allan Rimmer, Administrator, Charlton Court, East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent ME17 3DQ.

Tel: 01622 843104, Home: 01580 891059

Fax 01622 844220

Email: awcebd@mistral.co.uk

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