Presented by Don White and Janet Vander Wyk

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Course	Closing Date	Course Date
1. Stand and Deliver!-Practical Skills in Classroom Management	05/06/09	Friday 12 June
2. Building Relationships and Collapsing Conflict	12/06/09	Friday 19 June
3. Applying The Circle of Strength© To Conflict in the Workplace	19/06/09	Friday 26 June
4. Delivering Discipline Through Restitution	26/06/09	Friday 3 July

Course 1. Stand and Deliver! Practical Skills in Classroom Management

Friday 12th June 2009

This course provides practice in skills to increase teacher confidence and effectiveness in the classroom. It is ideal for early career teachers.

The course covers:

• Why we behave
• Five ways of controlling behaviour
• Creating the conditions for effective teaching and learning
• Anchoring Skills to use in stressful situations
• Strategies to encourage appropriate behaviour
• Strategies to address inappropriate behaviour

This course addresses Elements One, Three Four and Five of the NSW Institute of Teachers Professional Teaching Standards. Teachers who have gained Professional Competence will receive 6 hours of accreditation for Professional Learning.

Course 2. Building Relationships and Collapsing Conflict

Friday 19th June, 2009

For Teachers, Leaders and Others who must manage conflict in the workplace!

Conflict in life is inevitable. This course will help you to resolve conflict and create and maintain relationships even with people you do not particularly like.

The course covers:

• An explanation of human behaviour
• Understanding conflict and the roles we all play
• Five ways of controlling behaviour and how it relates to conflict
• Appropriate Assertiveness- words, tone of voice & body language
• Anchoring Skills using grounding, centering and focusing
• Strategies to maximise personal and professional effectiveness
• Strategies to use as an agent of change in systems

The course will be interactive with opportunities for internalising practical skills and strategies to use with students, colleagues and other people in your life.

This course addresses Elements Three, Four and Five of the NSW Institute of Teachers Professional Teaching Standards. Teachers who have gained Professional Competence will receive 6 hours of accreditation for Professional Learning.

Course 3. Applying The Circle of Strength© To Conflict in the Workplace

Friday 26th June 2009

An advanced course For Teachers, Leaders and Others Who Work With Difficult People!

The Circle of Strength© is the work of Clinical Counsellor, Educator, and renowned international speaker, Shelley Brierley, who recently visited Australia in 2005 and 2006. It is a highly effective way of reframing behaviour to establish balanced human relationships. The strategy is powerful in all areas of human interaction – in administration and for staff, parents and students. People all over the world have found the concepts and skills taught in “The Circle of Strength” to be useful in both personal and professional life.

The course covers:

• How to stay in personal balance in difficult situations.
• Understanding conflict and the roles we all play.
• Finding out which role you avoid – will it be the victim, the rescuer or the persecutor?
• Discovering your strengths as a co-operator, facilitator or initiator.
• Learning the interviewing technique that makes Shelley’s model come alive.
• How to collapse conflict at three levels: organisational, between people and intrapersonal.
• Strategies for those who are agents of change in a system environment like a school.

This course addresses Elements Three, Four and Five of the NSW Institute of Teachers Professional Teaching Standards. Teachers who have gained Professional competence will receive 6 hours of accreditation for Professional Learning.

Course 4. Delivering Discipline Through Restitution©

Friday 3rd July 2009

A whole school/class approach to restructuring discipline.

Restitution© is a process to enable a person who has made a mistake, to fix the problem and right the wrong. It has been developed by Canadian Educator and Psychologist, Diane Chelsom Gossen and is particularly effective when working with young people in schools to encourage them to accept responsibility for their own behaviour. Through interactive workshops, presentations, small group and paired discussions participants blend theory and research with practical classroom strategies and student interview practices to develop their skills in assisting young people to right the wrong and return to the group strengthened.

The course covers:

• A Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) explanation of why we behave
• The Five ways of Controlling Behaviour
• Understanding Restitution and how its self-evaluation process can strengthen student self-esteem
• How the Restitution process will clarify, embed and strengthen the school’s values
• Practising Restitution skills through role play scenarios

This course addresses Elements Three Four and Five of the NSW Institute of Teachers Professional Teaching Standards. Teachers who have gained Professional Competence will receive 6 hours of accreditation for Professional Learning.