Teachers enrolled in this course will...

Know

• the typical causes for “difficult behavior.”
• immediate reactions, short term solutions, and long term solutions to difficult behavior.
• what a Behavior Intervention Plan is, the important elements that make up a BIP, and how they are used in schools.
• the difference between reactive and proactive teachers.

Understand

• that a student isn’t “difficult”; his or her behavior is.
• that teachers can only control their own reactions to a behavior.
• how outside stresses and childhood experiences contribute to “difficult behavior”.
• the nature of certain disabilities such as ADD, AD/HD, LD and ODD, and how they can cause difficult behavior.
• a teacher’s role is in designing a BIP.

and Be Able To

• use a series of strategies designed to address certain difficult behaviors that they experience in their classrooms.
• use immediate, short term and long term solutions to succeed with difficult behavior.
• help design a BIP for a student who exhibits difficult behavior.
• use techniques to develop trusting relationships with students who exhibit difficult behaviors and their families.
• to reach out and communicate with difficult students.