This event will be presented as a Live Online Event.

Dealing With Challenging Behaviors Using Developmentally Appropriate Strategies (Grades PK-2)

Presented by Adam Peterson
Outstanding Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Instructional Aides, Child Care Providers, Specialists who Work With Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Immediate interventions and practical supports for decreasing challenging behaviors in grades PreK-2
Child-centered, developmentally appropriate practices for all students including special need populations
Self-care practices to counteract compassion fatigue so you can remain at your best and continue to help students with challenging behaviors
Ways to support the needs of students with challenging behaviors while effectively reaching and teaching the whole class

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Increasingly we see young children with challenging behaviors demonstrating a combination of behavioral issues and academic struggles that impact their ability to positively engage in their daily learning opportunities. How can we as educators most effectively identify, understand, and address these combined challenges? In this NEW, interactive seminar, outstanding educator and national presenter Adam Peterson will share developmentally appropriate practices to help you work smarter, not harder to reduce challenging behaviors, maintain smooth daily routines and schedules, and increase success for your PreK–2nd grade students. Explore a wealth of practical, educator-friendly strategies that simultaneously work to address challenging behaviors and academic struggles.

Gain self-care practices for counteracting compassion fatigue so you can continue to best help students with challenging behaviors. Discover developmentally appropriate ways to teach and substitute appropriate behaviors for challenging ones, and strategies for what to do when reinforcements no longer work. Plus, much, much more! Join Adam for a day full of proven, use-tomorrow, developmentally appropriate strategies and techniques to help you address and manage challenging behaviors.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Explore Highly Effective, Classroom-Proven Strategies for Dealing With Challenging Behaviors
Gain essential developmentally appropriate tools and strategies that work to help you address and manage challenging behavior … Learn ways to teach your young students the knowledge, behavior, and skills needed to express their feelings and get what they need in more positive ways
Teach Appropriate Replacement Skills to Improve Student Behavior
Learn how to identify the function of your students' behavior and how to use that knowledge to teach developmentally appropriate replacement skills … Strengthen students' social-emotional self-regulation skills
Provide Students With Transferable Behavior, Knowledge, and Skills
Teach your students to develop skills that will help them be successful, both socially and academically, across their learning environment … Reinforce students' ability to sustain newly acquired developmentally appropriate problem-solving skills
Enhance Your Repertoire of Highly Effective Reinforcement Strategies and Replacement Skills
Discover developmentally appropriate practices that teach and substitute replacement skills and appropriate behaviors for challenging ones … Explore several reinforcement techniques and strategies, including what to do when reinforcements no longer work!
Significantly Decrease Recurring Behaviors and Verbal Challenges
Learn the critical components necessary to understand stimuli that trigger students … Incorporate the best prevention-based strategies and interventions to stop challenging behaviors before they start
Essential Self-Care Practices for Staff Working With Challenging Behaviors
Gain self-care practices for counteracting compassion fatigue so you can continue to best help students with challenging behaviors … Explore asset mindset and coping strategies to help you positively decompress, de-stress, and remain at your best
Communicate More Effectively With Young Children With Developmental Delays and Challenging Behaviors
Apply proven strategies for more effectively providing directions, reinforcing rules, and verbally communicating expectations … Support students' success during classroom routines and transitions
Increase Your Effectiveness in Successfully Dealing With Challenging, Disruptive Behaviors as They Happen
Learn specific methods to deal with problems and challenges as they happen with individual children while maintaining control of the classroom as a whole … Ideas to help you de-escalate negative situations and avoid power struggles
Maintain Your Classroom Authority in Positive Ways
Manage the most difficult classroom disruptions and challenges while preserving dignity and controlling your emotions … Learn practical, developmentally appropriate ways to help you successfully deal with your most challenging students while supporting each student as a valued member of the learning environment
Receive an Extensive Challenging Behaviors Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook, specifically designed for this seminar, and filled with practical, developmentally appropriate techniques and strategies for dealing with challenging behaviors

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Outstanding use-tomorrow developmentally appropriate strategies to provide intensive supports for young students with challenging behaviors
Intervention strategies with practical, evidence-based, step-by-step guidance that outline what actions to take at each phase of implementation
Developmentally appropriate ideas to teach your young students how to express what they need in productive ways
Techniques to increase students' self-regulation and help them need less adult intervention over time
How to create the conditions where all students can learn, and you can teach when working with challenging behaviors
Ideas that balance addressing the needs of students with challenging behaviors while maintaining high-quality instructional practices with the rest of the class
Innovative, minor shifts you can make that will yield far greater results with students with challenging behaviors
How to get to the root of what drives challenging behaviors you frequently see, and implications for interventions and next steps
Effective ways to help students learn appropriate behavior through instruction, practice, feedback, and encouragement
Successful skills to help you persist in working successfully with young students with challenging behaviors
Practical ideas to increase student motivation and on-task behavior of students with challenging behaviors
Proactive developmentally appropriate solutions to prevent challenging behaviors before they start

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Managing challenging behaviors in preschool to 2nd grade students can be a daunting task. Have you ever felt overwhelmed? I certainly have, more than once. When I glanced at my classroom at the end of the day feeling discouraged and defeated, the only solution that came to mind was to throw in the towel. All I wanted was to teach, but it seemed like an impossible task. If you've experienced similar frustrations, please know that you are not alone.

I am writing to invite you to a seminar where I will share numerous developmentally appropriate strategies and techniques that are practical and easy to incorporate. These strategies have proven to be effective in reducing challenging behaviors and breaking the cycle of recurring disruptive actions that hinder productive teaching and learning. My goal is to provide support by equipping you with proven techniques for addressing and managing the challenging behaviors of your young students.

Throughout our time together, everything I present will be both practical and developmentally appropriate. You will learn methods to help young students regulate their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and techniques to enhance their ability to focus and remain engaged. We will explore approaches to defuse difficult episodes and rebuild trusting relationships during and after challenging situations. Additionally, we will delve into self-care practices that combat compassion fatigue, enabling you to continue providing the best support to students with challenging behaviors.

I am thrilled to share my absolute best ideas for helping your students develop and maintain the skills and behaviors they need for success. Get ready for an interactive day filled with developmentally appropriate strategies, techniques, practices, and resources that you can implement immediately with your young students.

I eagerly look forward to meeting you at the seminar!

Sincerely,
Adam Peterson

P.S. By transforming the life of just one student this year, your time will have been well spent. Invest a day with me and gain practical, developmentally appropriate strategies that can truly make a difference in the lives of your young students!

Who Should Attend

Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Instructional Aides, Child Care Providers, Specialists who Work With Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

Outstanding Instructors
All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
Extensive Resource Handbooks
You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
Highly Interactive
You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
Program Guarantee
As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

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:

Specific ready to use activities, strategies, and ideas to help improve young students' behavior
Proven techniques to better manage challenging behavior
Self-care practices to help you restore your energy and reduce your stress
Step-by-step developmentally appropriate strategies and resources to support young students with challenging behaviors

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 meet and share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their young learners program.

Consultation Available
Adam Peterson will be available to address your specific questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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