Classroom Management and Effective Teaching of Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Problems
A conference for teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, and psychologists focused on evidence-based classroom strategies that really make a difference
Many children have emotional or behavioral problems that present special challenges for teachers and others in school. This workshop will provide you with strategies to enhance learning, build self-esteem and control disruptive and otherwise troublesome behavior of students with emotional and behavioral problems.
We will discuss the causes of these problems (conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, depression and bipolar disorder, bullying, societal violence, parental mismanagement, among others) and, on this foundation, build practical strategies to maintain behavioral control and teach effectively.
Course objectives
At the completion of this conference, participants will be able to:
- Set clear, focused goals for learning and behavioral change
- List the six main causes of behavior and emotional problems in children and adolescents
- Distinguish discipline from punishment and behavior problems from discipline problems
- Develop an effective behavior management program for the disruptive child
- Set up a more effective behavior modification programs
- Develop effective strategies to work with defensive and resistant parents
- Explain the specific implications for behavior management strategies for the different causes
of behavior problems
- Determine which behavioral problems can be dealt with effectively in school and those that
require outside intervention
- Describe a series of specific strategies to improve behavior and enhance learning of students
with behavioral and emotional problems.
- Explain the relationship of self-esteem to behavior problems and describe simple strategies to
enhance self-esteem... and more.
