10 Simple Strategies to Prevent Behaviour Escalation.
These are 10 simple ways to prevent challenging behaviour escalation by making small changes to your interactions. In our…
10 Tips To Deescalate a Child’s Behaviour
Every day teachers, parents and carers are faced with potentially challenging situations. Many of these are defused through skillful behaviour support. These successful resolutions will have certain common characteristics. There are some essential conditions that must exist to deescalate an incident of challenging behaviour.
Social Stories: Hero Cards & Rules
Social stories are a tried and tested way of teaching social skills but for some learners they are too much. I needed a way to remind a student of the rules but in a way that didn’t single them out as being the focus of the story. Some people will say this won’t work as autistic children can’t generalise…. but anyone who has worked with autism knows a lot of what people say is actually a myth or just does not apply to an individual.
Building Relationships with your Students: 5 Tried and Tested Strategies
The more you get to know the children in your class the better you will become at picking up the signs that something isn’t right. That sentence was easy to write but hard to put into practice because…
Teacher Student Boundaries in SEN Education.
I have discussed on many occasions the importance of positive relationships when working with young people. I work with vulnerable student groups, mainly autistic young people, and those who communicate and see the world differently. This relationship dynamic can shape their view of adult to adult and adult to child interactions for their entire lives.
Autism: What is a Meltdown?
Overwhelmed and Stressed The terminology used for an intense episode of challenging behaviour that may be displayed by Autistic…
Restraint in Schools: The Last Taboo
Is there anything more distressing and potentially damaging than the moment an adult places hands on a child?
This is a reality faced by many teachers daily. Many are put in difficult situations having to support vulnerable children through crises with limited support from leadership, external agencies or maybe even parents.
Challenging Behaviour: Teaching Alternative Behaviours
Improved Communication Through Alternative Behaviours Many young people I have taught have found efficient and effective ways of communicating…
Challenging Behaviour: Managing Adult Emotions
I was honoured to be asked to host #behaviourchat on the 23rd May 2016 discussing ways to manage our emotions at work with a particular focus on behaviour.
Challenging Behaviour: Managing The Impact on Staff
Tips for managing your emotions. Challenging Behaviour: Managing The Emotional Impact on Yourself Part of my current role involves…
Challenging Behaviour: 5 reasons your strategies aren’t working.
How To Effectively Manage Challenging Behaviour When faced with displays of behaviour that challenge most schools resort to sanctions…
15 Top Tips for Delivering Engaging Behaviour Management Training for Teachers
Effective Behaviour Training I am a principal instructor for a behaviour support training network. This gives me the opportunity…
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