Working Successfully with Difficult Students and Challenging Behavior (Grades K-12)

Presented by Sandy Stewart
Outstanding Educator and National Trainer

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades K-12: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, School Psychologists, Social Workers and Administrators

Practical strategies to decrease disruptive, difficult and noncompliant behaviors
How to implement trauma-aware and classroom-proven ideas to de-escalate problematic situations with challenging students
Specific redirection and intervention strategies to help challenging students stay focused on learning
Powerful strategies to reach and teach all students regardless of their negative attitudes and behaviors

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Do you feel like you are spending 80% of your time with 20% of your students? Are these 20% disruptive, defiant and your most difficult students? If so, you won't want to miss this fast-paced, practical seminar focusing on the unique needs of difficult and defiant students in grades K-12. You will learn ready-to-use, time-tested strategies to help you decrease discipline problems and defuse and prevent anger. You will walk away with techniques, tools and ideas for de-escalating problematic situations, working with oppositional defiant disorders and ADD/ADHD students. Discover easy-to-implement tips for behavior management plans, contracts and effective parent communication. Whether you are a veteran teacher or at the beginning of your career, Sandy Stewart will answer your questions; provide valuable, trauma-aware strategies; and help you solve the problems you face in your classroom every day.

You will also take away from this seminar a digital resource handbook packed with prevention and intervention strategies you can put to immediate use as ideas, activities and strategies to help you make a real difference in your students' lives and renew your enthusiasm for teaching.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Practical and Doable Strategies to Decrease Challenging Student Behaviors
Learn a wealth of practical, trauma-aware strategies that can help you transform disruptive, difficult and challenging students into more self-disciplined, cooperative, focused learners … Proven strategies that work!
Address Disruptive Behaviors in Your Grades K-12 Classrooms
Create a classroom in which disruptive behaviors and acting out are ineffective ways for students to get their needs met … Expand your repertoire with numerous tips to maximize your effectiveness in decreasing problematic behaviors
High Leverage Classroom Routines That Result in Improved Student Behavior
Effective routines have an immediate positive impact on your students' behavior … Learn powerful and highly effective routines you can implement in your classroom immediately
Decrease Negative Behaviors and Increase Positive Interactions
Discover how you can use specific strategies to create a cooperative, risk-free, positive classroom environment while decreasing the number of negative interactions that occur each day
Key Strategies to Help You With Challenging and Difficult Students In Your Classroom
Key strategies to help you manage frustration and stress so you can handle disruptive behavior while maintaining your sense of professionalism and protecting the dignity of your students
Build Your Confidence When Faced With Challenging Behavior
Develop practical skills that will enhance your classroom communication skills and build your confidence when faced with challenging students and difficult behavior
Strategies for Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ADD/ADHD, Emotional Disorders, Executive Function Skill Deficits, and Students With Learning Disabilities
Learn and practice strategies specific to students with ODD, ADD/ADHD and other learning disabilities … Decrease your frustration while meeting your students' needs
Decrease Disruptive Behaviors and Increase Student Motivation to Learn
Specific suggestions for increasing accountability, responsibility and pro-social behaviors in your classroom … Learn practical and effective strategies for a more cooperative and safer classroom environment
Successful Tips to Help Difficult Students Be More Mindful of Their Behavior
Learn innovative techniques to be more mindful of their behavior … Numerous strategies you can use immediately with your most challenging students
Receive an Extensive Classroom Management Digital Resource Handbook
Receive a digital resource handbook filled with strategies to significantly decrease difficult student behavior, techniques for proactively managing your classroom and resolving discipline issues, plus advice on managing the stresses unique to educators

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Make informed decisions about the most appropriate course of action once a behavior problem has occurred in your classroom
Numerous proven approaches to defuse disruptive and angry behavior
Innovative strategies that connect with students and families to promote respect and trust
Practical positive behavioral support plans to help your most challenging students achieve greater success in your classroom
Highly effective intervention strategies to help keep you out of confrontations with difficult students to maintain everyone's dignity and respect
Specific ideas to create individualized behavior management plans for chronically disruptive students
Empower your challenging students to become accountable and more responsive
Ideas to de-escalate problematic situations with potentially violent students
Learn skills in paradoxical responses with oppositional students
Develop routines and trauma-aware methods that work with challenging students
Learn skills to work better with oppositional defiant disorders, learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, and ADD/ADHD issues
Techniques to avoid power struggles and examine your personal triggers in relation to disruptive behaviors and develop new skills for dealing with these behaviors
Decrease difficult discipline problems before they arise through planning and organization and restore positive relationships
Numerous web resources, tools and proven approaches for addressing challenging behavior effectively

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

My first 15 years of teaching were in an inner city setting where I realized very quickly that student misbehavior was going to be one of the greatest challenges that I was going to face. That was true then and it still rings true now in my 37th year of teaching. Very early on I began my own journey in not only understanding the complex and fascinating theories and research behind student behavior, but taking these big ideas and translating them into the practical application in everyday teaching. That was my passion then and it remains my passion to this day. Over time, I also began to understand how these concepts were so closely intertwined with building sincere, genuine relationships with my students, offering high leverage instructional and emotional routines, and creating a healthy physical and emotional classroom environment. When I put it all together, I found something that really works!

Drawing on tried-and-true strategies from many years of classroom teaching experience, enhanced with the latest research and insights formed during extensive additional training, I have designed this seminar to share with you with practical strategies you can use immediately to address all levels of student misbehavior more effectively and successfully. Our day will be packed with cutting-edge research and realistic ideas and strategies that can be easily implemented into your fast and furious teaching day. I look forward to sharing my enthusiasm, experience and ideas with you so that you, in turn, can create the conditions to decrease challenging student behavior and help difficult students find greater success.

I wholeheartedly encourage you to join me for this engaging and interactive one-day seminar, and I look forward to meeting you there!

Sincerely,
Sandy Stewart

P.S. You will also receive the behavior management digital resource handbook I created specifically for this seminar. It is filled with highly effective practical strategies and resources you can use immediately in your classroom!

Who Should Attend

Educators Serving Grades K-12: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, School Psychologists, Social Workers and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

Strategies for dealing with specific types of challenging students including those who are defiant, disruptive and aggressive
Samples of individual student behavior management plans, contracts, monitoring cards, home-school communication systems, data tracking and much more
Practical strategies for managing class time efficiently to reduce off-task behavior and restoring productive relationships with students
Procedures for resolving discipline problems once they occur with challenging students

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in new, practical approaches to help students with challenging behavior.

Consultation Available
Sandy Stewart will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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