Reducing Disruptive Behaviors While Increasing Self-Regulation (Grades PK-2) Presented by Melissa Davis Outstanding Teacher and National Presenter

Designed Specifically for Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare Providers, Specialists Who Work with Young Children, Title I Staff, and Administrators

• Decrease challenging behaviors while increasing self-regulation for all your students
• How-to strategies to decrease attention-getting behaviors and increase motivation for students lacking readiness and self-awareness
• Proven intervention strategies to address problematic behaviors when they occur and to proactively support behavior changes in the future
• Extensive disruptive behaviors digital resource handbook filled with intervention and prevention strategies that work for grades PreK-2 students

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This engaging and interactive seminar will provide innovative techniques for strengthening the learning of all your students in easy-to-use, yet highly effective ways. Experienced general and special education teacher Melissa Davis understands firsthand how scaffolding for success is the powerful tool all teachers need to reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success. Learn how to decrease disruptive behaviors while increasing clarity, calm, and attentiveness, helping you maximize every school-day minute.

Explore dozens of new ideas and proven techniques you can incorporate into your existing program. Positively impact the behaviors that challenge you daily and flip the script on student motivation in any instructional setting. Though we can't control the mental and emotional states that our students bring from home each morning, we can integrate innovative strategies that enable our students to improve their behavior, learning, and skill retention.

You'll leave with a robust toolkit and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you reduce disruptive behaviors while increasing self-regulation and academic success in your grades PreK-2 learners.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Decrease Young Students' Distracting Behaviors
   Ideas to boost students' confidence while creating a sense of calm and empowerment through practices and routines structured for their success
2. Ready-to-Use Opening Routines to Start Each Day With Increased Focus
   Many students can't get past the challenges they bring with them to class … Learn how to break the cycle of entering with negativity, replacing it instead with a positive start to the school day
3. Strategies to Maximize Learning Time
   Discover easy-to-use strategies for developing motivation and self-regulation without taking away from time on task, or adding to your already full plate
4. Reduce Disruptive Behaviors
   Establish a self-awareness support structure, woven throughout your routines and classroom operations, leading to improved self-regulation, self-efficacy, and better behavior
5. Boost Young Students' Attention Skills
   Learn the tools needed to reduce students' anxiety and increase their focus without distracting others or disrupting the classroom environment
6. Help Your Students Who Lack Key Readiness Skills
   Learn how to empower your students who otherwise display constant attention-seeking behaviors and lack READINESS for learning
7. Stop the Cycle of Attention-Seeking Behavior and Consequences
   Teach your students to reduce attention-seeking behaviors
8. Find the "Why" Behind Behavior
   Learn how to reinforce behavior changes in your students by ensuring that you are targeting the "why" behind their behaviors
9. Significantly Reduce Recurring Behavior Challenges
   Gain a wealth of proven, developmentally appropriate strategies to address challenging student behaviors head on
10. Receive a Reducing Disruptive Behaviors Digital Resource Handbook
    You'll receive an extensive digital resource handbook, specifically designed for this seminar, and filled with practical, developmentally appropriate ideas, techniques, and strategies for reducing disruptive behaviors in your PreK-2 students

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Practical strategies to create a positive, productive learning environment and reduce challenging, disruptive behaviors
• Numerous use-tomorrow routines to help you maximize every instructional minute
• Proven, developmentally appropriate ideas to dissolve challenging behaviors
• Ways to increase resilience and expand academic success for all students
• Strategies that promote self-regulation and calm, focused attention
• How to build a culture of SUCCESS where academic achievement is the natural focal point of your classroom
• Classroom-tested strategies to increase academic success and reduce anxiety in your young learners
• Innovative, minor shifts you can make that will yield optimal results with maladaptive behaviors in your classroom
• The key time for teaching replacement skills and behaviors
• Ideas for making your most challenging students a positive part of your classroom community
• Strategies to help you persist in working successfully with young children that demonstrate challenging behaviors
• Methods to increase time-on-task and decrease negative, attention-seeking behaviors in your most challenging students

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As educators, it seems with each passing year we continue to experience increasing challenges in both our students and the learning environment. Now, more than ever, our youngest grades PreK-2 learners require effective strategies to manage their challenging behaviors and ensure optimal learning experiences.

Throughout my career as a special and general education teacher, I've prioritized supporting students beyond just academics. Working with diverse learners, from those with developmental delays and challenging behaviors to their typically developing peers, I've taken particular interest in helping young students who present with challenging behaviors. This passion has led to the creation of dozens of classroom-tested techniques that have markedly improved student focus, reduced disruptive behaviors, and ultimately enhanced learning.

In this new seminar I am excited to share these valuable tools and techniques with you! Drawing on my classroom experience and my coaching work with teachers, we'll explore dozens of easy-to-use, classroom-tested strategies you can implement immediately to decrease disruptive behaviors and increase student learning. We'll explore success stories and practical applications of these strategies, allowing you to tailor them to your unique classroom environment.

Drawing on nearly two decades of experience working challenging student behaviors, I'll guide you through practical methods for creating a more supportive and productive learning environment for your grades PreK-2 students. Let's work together to empower them and ensure their success!

Sincerely,
Melissa Davis

P.S. The focus of our day together will be on practical, classroom-tested strategies you can implement right away!

Who Should Attend

Preschool Teachers, Transitional Kindergarten Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, First Grade Teachers, Second Grade Teachers, Multiage Teachers, Counselors, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, Childcare 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 Disruptive Behaviors Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Practical strategies to establish calm and clarity in your classroom
• Ideas to help your students develop habits that increase confidence, establish self-regulation, and decrease disruptive behaviors
• Strategies to decrease distracting behaviors, while increasing focus and purposeful learning
• Ready-to-use activities, strategies, and ideas to improve young students' behavior
• Step-by-step, developmentally appropriate strategies and resources to support young students with challenging behaviors
• Visual strategies to prevent off-task and other behavioral challenges

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 helping their students self-regulate and achieve academic success.

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

Semester Credit Option
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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