You’ve seen it -a kindergartner who screams “You hate me” and pushes other kids; a student who makes a threat and may need an alternative placement; a student with a frantic fight or flight response who throws things when he is frustrated.
Nancy Rappaport – Intensive 2-Day Workshop
Trauma’s Impact on Learning and Behavior
3 ways trauma affects learning
4 paradigm shifts and strategies to better engage students
Create a trauma-sensitive classroom environment
Cracking the Behavior Code
4 SOS tips for challenging behavior
Address skill deficits that often underlie challenging behavior
Building a Toolkit to Tailor Individual Education Plans
The FAIR plan approach to deciphering behavior and developing an effective plan:
Determining the function of behavior
Accommodation to change the behavior
Interventions to stop a negative cycle
Response to an agitated student
4 functions of challenging behavior
Strategies for Teaching Skills & Changing Behavior
Manage transitions and previewing
Concrete tools, apps, and checklists
Embedding choice in instruction
Self-calming techniques
Classroom-wide strategies to improve self-monitoring
Building Relationships
Effective strategies for interacting with challenging students/parents
Approaches to difficult interactions with role playing
Effective responses to diffuse challenging behavior
Breaking the cycle of power struggle – improve communication
Key Concepts on School Violence – Safe School Initiative
School violence in context
Critical questions for comprehensive evaluation
Differentiate between typical vs. concerning behavior
Threat/Safety Assessment and Intervention
Step-by-step approach to evaluating threats and intervening
Comprehensive assessment components
Prioritize risk factors without profiling students
Differentiate between transient threats or substantive threats
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You’ve seen it -a kindergartner who screams “You hate me” and pushes other kids; a student who makes a threat and may need an alternative placement; a student with a frantic fight or flight response who throws things when he is frustrated.
It’s time to optimize effective ways to understand and address students’ seemingly intractable behavior.
In this recording, Dr. Nancy Rappaport presents a comprehensive, accessible, and flexible framework for practical intervention with traumatized children and adolescents. As the author of the influential book The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students, Dr. Rappaport will share her method for understanding and improving behavior in challenging students which looks at the function of the behavior, accommodations, interventions, and nurturing responses to traumatized children.
You will also learn how to implement a comprehensive school safety assessment approach that allows schools to work with mental health professionals to prevent school violence and get students the support they need. This model allows schools to address concerns about students’ potential for targeted violence and make recommendations to enhance safety, connection, and engagement. Dr. Rappaport will have interactive case discussions that help participants practice and reinforce critical process of assessment and design a care plan.
