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“Reducing Workplace Violence means Increasing Workplace Safety
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Training > School/Classroom Culture Change
Classroom Culture Change:
Creating Safe and Engaging Learning Environments
“The most effective approaches to school-based prevention of anti-social behavior are proactive and instructive - planning ways to avoid failure and coercive struggles regarding both academic and social behavior and actively teaching students more adaptive, competent ways of behaving”
James Kauffman (2001)
Characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral
Disorders of Children and Youth
In classrooms throughout the country, teachers struggle daily with students who exhibit behaviors that impede learning in the school setting. These behaviors take many forms: some are amusing, some bothersome, and others significantly disrupt the learning environment. Traditionally, teachers and school administrators have posted rules, suspended or eliminated privileges, and employed various levels of admonishments in attempts to gain student compliance. While these punitive measures may be effective for a few students, the results are often temporary and generally do not provide a positive educational environment that supports sustained behavior change.
In the Fourth Phi Delta Kappa Poll of ‘Teachers’ Attitudes toward Public Schools (1997), several areas of student behavior were considered significant and serious problems. These include talking back to and disobeying teachers, incomplete homework assignments, disruptive student behavior, and truancy. Teachers are searching for tools to help maintain classroom rules, strategies to de-escalate inappropriate behaviors, and methods to support students who are exhibiting challenging behaviors.
Schools that establish a community of support where students feel valued, respected, and connected enhance learners’ academic and personal success. When students realize their contributions are acknowledged and appreciated by teachers, staff, and administration, they develop a sense of ownership and pride in their school, engage more readily in the learning process, and reduce the frequency and severity of challenging behaviors. The Mandt System® 1-Day Classroom Culture Change In-service provides information and specific strategies to support teachers in establishing a positive, respectful, relationship-based classroom culture that values and engages students in the process of learning.
“The concept of classroom management is broader that the notion of student discipline. It includes all the things teachers must do to foster student involvement and cooperation in the classroom activities to establish a productive working environment”
Julie Sanford, Edmund Emmer, and Barbara Clements (1983)
“Improving Classroom Management”
Educational Leadership
“Teaching discipline requires two fundamental elements: empathy and structure. Empathy helps us ‘know’ the child, to perceive her needs, to hear what she is trying to say. Structure allows us to set guidelines and provide necessary limits.”
Ruth Sidney Charney (1991)
Teaching Children to Care
The workshops are conducted by Dr. Karen Heller, an international presenter, trainer and Faculty member of David Mandt and Associates. Karen is a highly respected and recognized expert in the field of behavior management with over 25 years of direct and practical experience. Her results-oriented approach places her in high demand as an international presenter, consultant, and trainer. Her expertise encompasses the areas of behavior, conflict resolution, civility, diversity and tolerance, organizational change, and education. Karen completed her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership, specializing in conflict resolution. She served as the Assistant Vice President, Multicultural Affairs Division at Nevada State College. Karen also holds the position of International Special Projects Director of Ungdomsalternativet, a Swedish youth organization.
