The Power of Positive Connections: Understanding and preventing challenging behaviour
with Barbara Kaiser
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Your connection with a child is the most powerful tool you have as a teacher. When challenging behaviour enters the picture, this crucial relationship may falter. The behaviour gets in the way, blocking your view of the child, making it difficult to establish a positive connection. How you relate to the child depends on what you see when you look at the child—and what you see depends on who you are. Whether you’re aware of it or not, everything about your teaching—how you approach and respond to the children, set up your room, choose and present activities, even your knowledge of child development and theory—filters through the prism of your own emotions, family background, education, temperament, beliefs, values, and culture. Challenging behaviour can be prevented when teachers understand themselves, the child and and create a responsive learning environment, program, and social climate
October 27, 2016
1:30 PM
Memorial Hall | Confederation Centre of the Arts | Charlottetown PE