Decrease Attention-Getting and Tantrum Behaviors: Practical Solutions (Grades PK-2)

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Do you have students who present challenging behaviors that disrupt the flow of your classroom and the learning of others? Do some of these behaviors include tattling, screaming, roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, tantrums, and even outright refusal? Of course the answer is yes! While the percentage of students who engage in these types of disruptive behaviors may be small, the impact on the entire class can feel and be much more significant. Lisa Rogers, outstanding presenter and behavior intervention specialist, has designed this seminar to give you practical solutions to teach the skills that will help your students be successful, both socially and academically. You will learn dozens of strategies to use immediately to reach your students who lack the skills to follow directions, share, take turns, stay focused, and remain calm in stressful situations. Ideas for simple, yet highly effective visual cues, ways to talk about behavior and thinking and positive intervention strategies to use when you need to address problem behaviors, will all be given.

You won't want to miss this strategy-packed day filled with practical and developmentally appropriate ways to decrease behaviors that disrupt learning and increase the skills students need to be successful in school.

Although we have probably never met, I'll bet I can make an educated guess about why you might be interested in spending a day together. I'll guess that you have a classroom full of beautiful young students who you care about deeply. I'll also bet that you are passionate about your life as a teacher and consider each day a gift of possibilities – and you have one, two or maybe more students who have rocked your world a bit. They might not sit when you tell them to sit, or they might even scream, run out of the room, talk incessantly, push others, or run around – and all the strategies you have used before don't seem to work.

During our day together, I will give you dozens of practical, doable strategies to stop the cycle of repeated attention-getting behaviors that get in the way of productive class activities and learning. We will explore specific ways to use visual and auditory cues, maximize learning through purposeful play, transition routines, strategies to teach students to regulate their thinking, emotions and behavior, as well as how to increase your young students' ability to focus and stay engaged. We will also look at what to do during and after a tantrum to defuse the situation and reduce re-occurrences.

I hope you will join me so that we can work together to build new strategies and help your students develop the skills and behaviors that you and I know they will need to be successful inside and outside your classroom. I promise you will leave with a toolkit of strategies that really work, along with a renewed energy to do the valuable work of teaching young children!

P.S. Be prepared to leave with dozens of practical solutions to develop social skills that help young children respond in more appropriate and acceptable ways in the classroom setting.

Early Childhood Educators: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Child Care Providers, Specialists Who Work With Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing the behavior and learning of their students.

Consultation Available Lisa Rogers will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Specific, practical strategies to reduce disruptive and often repeated, attention-getting behaviors including tattling, screaming, roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, tantrums, and outright refusal to follow directions
• Positive intervention strategies to address problem behaviors and make them teachable moments to develop self-regulation and problem-solving skills
• Key components of effective consequences that are instructive versus punitive in order to teach and nurture confidence and resilience
• Receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with ready-to-use intervention and prevention strategies that work for preschool-second grade students