Defusing Anger, Anxiety and Aggression: Decreasing Difficult Student Behavior (Grades 1-12)

Presented by Cindy Jones
Outstanding Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Working With Students in Grades K-12: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title 1 Staff, Counselors, Paraprofessionals, School Psychologists, and Administrators

Defuse negative behaviors and increase student learning
Reduce students' problematic behaviors while increasing their capacity to interact positively
Specific intervention strategies to address anger, anxiety and aggression
Practical, proven tools that can help you improve student behavior

Practical Ideas and Strategies

A growing number of students are displaying anger, anxiety and aggression. If you are noticing this in your classroom, this seminar was designed for you! Cindy Jones is a highly recognized national presenter, author and educator who has worked with difficult and disruptive students for decades. Cindy's extensive experience in K-12 classrooms brings to her seminars a practical perspective for managing and intervening with disruptive students who exhibit anger, anxiety and aggression. You will receive the comprehensive digital resource handbook, Defusing Anger, Anxiety and Aggression: Decreasing Difficult Student Behavior, filled with practical strategies, ideas, and tools you can use the very next day. You will leave this seminar re-energized, less stressed and more ready to deal with your most challenging student behaviors.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Practical Strategies to Better Respond to Angry, Anxious or Aggressive Behavior
The best, high-yield practices specific to each of the challenging behaviors you face in your classroom each day – anger, anxiety and aggression … Learn how to easily differentiate the behaviors and the techniques used to work with your most challenging students
Doable Techniques to Proactively Manage Behaviors
Provide the most effective prevention strategies that impact student behavior … Decrease challenging situations in your classroom
Procedures to Help You Manage Students' Anxiety, Anger and Aggressive Behaviors
Reach even your hardest students … Learn about the five crucial areas to manage that will help all your students
Practical Ideas and Tools to Help Students Manage Strong Emotions
Improve regulation of emotions … Get better results from proactive strategies
Avoid Common Mistakes When Working With Difficult Behaviors
Walk away with ready-to-use solutions to more effectively correct and redirect student misbehaviors
Using a Trauma Sensitive Lens to Better Understand Disruptive Behaviors
Learn how trauma impacts your students and how it can manifest into behaviors that are challenging in your classroom … Expand your repertoire of tools
Interventions for All Levels of Your Multi-Tiered System of Support
Expand your repertoire of Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions designed specifically for students who are angry, anxious or aggressive
Build Positive Relationships and Impact Student Learning
Identify key components to building positive relationships with all your students … Updated strategies for positively impacting student learning
Increase Engagement and Motivation for ALL Students
Ready-to-use, time-tested engagement strategies that enhance outcomes
Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with practical methods, ideas and research-based strategies to use when dealing with students who are angry, anxious or aggressive

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

How to promote skill development to help students manage their behaviorsand reactions
Ideas to prevent social and physical aggression
Avoid student triggers that exacerbate negative behaviors
Effective strategies for working with students using a trauma-sensitive lens
Easy-to-use problem-solving processes to use in the classroom
How to choose practices that work for YOUR strengths
Use brain-based strategies to enhance student attention and learning
Numerous ideas for conversation starters to get to learn more about your students
Strategies to help you work with students who are anxious
Three keys to developing positive relationships with your students
How to develop self-care strategies that work for you
Practical ways to decrease difficult student behavior through classroom interventions
Proven classroom-based techniques for managing anger
Get better results from classroom expectations that work for ALL students
Stress management tips for you and your students

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Student behaviors are changing. Many students come to school hurting, hostile, unmotivated, and uninterested in learning. We as educators often spend 80% of our time with 20% of the class who enter the classroom with a great deal of anxiety and are quick to anger and aggression. I invite you to join me for a highly practical seminar focused on strategies for your difficult-to-teach students. During the day, you will discover many new ideas for reaching even your most difficult students.

Many students act out because it has worked for them in the past. They either do not possess the appropriate skills to make good choices or have been reinforced for making the wrong choices. I have designed this seminar specifically for teachers, counselors, administrators, and school psychologists dealing with aggressive students. The skills presented are ones I have gained through my own experience as an educator and from interacting with many highly skilled educators. I have seen first-hand how aggressive behaviors can change and students' behavior and school success can improve when the correct intervention skills are applied.

My goal is for you to leave the seminar with many new, practical tools that can help you with addressing student behaviors that threaten to stop our teaching, interfere with our students' learning and steal your joy as an educator. Please join your colleagues and me for an exciting day filled with practical and creative strategies for changing the lives of your students and refilling your teacher toolbox.

Sincerely,
Cindy Jones

P.S. You will leave with dozens of practical ideas and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you implement the strategies in your classroom!

Who Should Attend

Educators Working With Students in Grades K-12: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title 1 Staff, Counselors, Paraprofessionals, School Psychologists, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Strategies for dealing with challenging students including those who are angry, anxious or aggressive
Teacher-tested, classroom-proven interventions
Relationship-building lessons to improve engagement and motivation of your K-12 students
Techniques for helping teachers develop strategies for dealing 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 share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their approach to difficult students.

Consultation Available
Cindy Jones will be available for consultation regarding your 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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