The Essential Guide For Support Staff In Schools And Colleges Wanting To Improve Their Skills When Dealing With StudentsPrintEmail

The Essential Guide For Support Staff In Schools And Colleges Wanting To Improve Their Skills When Dealing With Students


This course is specifically designed for any non-teaching staff who work in schools: office staff, technicians, lunchtime supervisors, building services staff, teaching assistants, learning mentors, cover supervisors etc. It is a very practical and down to earth course and is not full of academic mumbo-jumbo It is often difficult enough for teachers to deal effectively with students. For adults working within schools who do not have the "clout" of teacher status it can sometimes feel impossible. The role of support staff within schools is completely different from that of the teacher and requires particular and subtle skills if it is to be carried out effectively. This course gives participants tried and tested strategies for dealing effectively with students, for preventing poor behaviour from occurring and for dealing appropriately with poor pupil behaviour when it does occur.

The aims of this course:


• To analyse the particular demands placed upon non-teaching
staff in their relationships with students and teachers
• To debate the essential "do’s and don’ts" of dealing effectively
with students and teachers
• To highlight the structures and procedures available to support
staff within schools
• To distinguish between assertive behaviour and aggressive
behaviour
• To identify the causes of pupil disruption
• To analyse how poor pupil behaviour can be prevented from
occurring and how to deal more effectively with it when it does
• To investigate how our own behaviour can affect students’
behaviour
• To give delegates the opportunity to formulate strategies to
avoid/deal with some of their own common problematic pupil

behaviours

This course includes:

•A CD ROM containing all imagery, instructions and ideas shown throughout the day in a presentation format to show to your classes
•Refreshments and Lunch

PLUS A FREE CD ROM containing dozens of superb interactive quizzes and teaching materials. Compatible with any brand of interactive whiteboard or computer

COURSE OUTLINE
9.30 - 10.00 Coffee, registration
10.00 – 11.10 Session 1:
What are the main and distinctive issues
for non-teaching staff in schools?
• Identifying the problems
• Dealing with students more effectively
• Dealing with teachers more effectively
• What structures exist within school to support you in
your relationships with students?
11.10 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 1.00 Session 2:
Learning to be more assertive with
students?
• common causes of pupil disruption
• being assertive means ….. ?
being aggressive means ….. ?
• assertive voice usage and body language
• lighting the fuse : behaviours guaranteed to make
students explode
• planning to avoid / deal with some common
problematic pupil behaviours
• what you can do differently tomorrow to make
improvements
1.00 – 1.45 Lunch
1.45 – 3.00 Session 3:
Getting students to behave the way that
you want them to
• How adult behaviour can affect pupil behaviour
• Analysis of video clips of effective and ineffective
adult behaviour when dealing with students
• Dealing with difficult problems – managing them
effectively
• Practical tips and hints that are proven to work