Classroom Management

Teaching Huck Finn: How to Reach At-Risk Students
(Time: 3 hours)
Learn the importance of the teacher-student relationship, the need for more positive behavior management techniques, the connection between academics and behavior, important classroom management techniques that work, effective motivation strategies, and the significance of ratio of interactions.

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers


How to Get What You Expect
(Time: 3 hours)
Learn the importance of teaching your behavioral expectations and establishing routines; how to determine your expectations, and how and when to teach your expectations. Participants will be given the time to begin the process of identifying expectations. (Taken from CHAMPs: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management by Randall Sprick, et al. Ms. Kling has attended Dr. Sprick’s “Train the Trainer” workshop for CHAMPs.)

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers


If You Expect It, Teach It!
(Time: 6 hours)
Description and Objectives: Learn the importance of teaching your behavioral expectations and establishing routines; how to determine your expectations, and how and when to teach your expectations. Participants will be given the time to identify their activities and transitions, determine their expectations for at least one activity and one transition, and begin to write a lesson plan to teach their expectations. (Taken from CHAMPs: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management by Randall Sprick, et al. Ms. Kling has attended Dr. Sprick’s “Train the Trainer” workshop for CHAMPs.)

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers


Changing Behavior; Changing Lives
(Time: 6 hours)
Description and Objectives: Overview of basic behavior principles and how to use them to help your students make more adaptive behavioral choices. Includes information regarding different types of classroom behavior management plans and several samples of both classroom and individual plans you can use in your classroom tomorrow. Hand-outs include reproducible charts and diagrams.

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers, Paraprofessionals


Teaching Techniques for New Skill Acquisition
(Time: 6 hours)
Description and Objectives: Learn how to use various techniques such as chaining, backward chaining, precision commands, and shaping to teach new skills to students. This workshop also focuses on collecting and using data, the importance of immediate reinforcement and punishment, the importance of consistency, and how to determine the function of the maladaptive behavior.

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers and Paraprofessionals


Parapro: Supporting the Instructional Process
(Time: 6 hours)
Learn basic behavior management skills, the importance of confidentiality, how to take data, the importance of working as a team with the teacher, how to supervise students, and how to work with small groups and with individual students. (This course is taken from ParaPro: Supporting the Instructional Process written by Randy Sprick, et al.)

Target Audience: General and Special Education Paraprofessionals


CHAMPs: A Proactive & Positive Approach to Classroom Management
(Time: Three 6-hour sessions to be scheduled consecutively)
Learn how to organize your physical space and your daily schedule in the most effective manner possible; establish positive contacts with your students’ families; set long-range academic and behavioral goals for your students; define and teach behavioral expectations; set and teach classroom rules and routines; use behavior management principles effectively; conduct yourself as a professional; increase student motivation; and correct misbehavior. This training program was written by Randy Sprick, et al. Ms. Kling has attended Dr. Sprick’s “Train the Trainer” workshop for this program.

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers

Materials: Participants may want to purchase the CHAMPs book