Course duration: 6 Hours

    Standards Addressed: 4.1.2, 4.3.2

    Target Audience: Years Pre K – 12 teachers, Special Education teachers

    Course Delivery Mode: Presentation at your school (minimum 15 teachers)

This six-hour course is divided into five sessions.  The first session will provide teachers with knowledge and understanding into conduct disorders, attachment disorders, family systems and abuse. In the second session, teachers will discover what research findings show about the damaging effect of abuse on the developing brain. In the third session, teachers will reflect on and describe the complex problem that educators have when trying to manage challenging behaviour without knowing all the information required to successfully intervene and significantly improve student learning. In the fourth session, teachers will learn about the findings from research and begin to see these as a message of hope. Teachers will modify their existing strategies to create more inclusive strategies when managing challenging behaviour that result in a safe and engaging classroom, whilst also beginning to heal and empower a hurting child to learn and to love.

The final session includes a collaborative online session and enables teachers to implement strategies they have learned in this course in their own classrooms over a period of 12 months and then share observations of how this research has impacted on improvements to student learning and improved their classroom practice.