The following workshops have been conducted recently with great success.  Please contact our Head Office for details of Professor Bernard's upcoming workshops.

 

1. Best Practices in Implementing You Can Do It! Education

Workshop content:

Participants will focus on how to build the critical mass of practices necessary for YCDI to impact the educational outcomes of all students including: role of principal, maangement, staff professional learning, assessment and accountability, school-wide practices, parent education and many more practices. 

2. A Whole School Approach to Improving Student Behaviour, Achievement and Well-Being

Workshop topics:

  1. Latest Research -impact of delays in social-emotional development on achievement and social-emotional well-being, for young people today; the actions of teachers, parents and community that matter most to positive student outcomes
  2. Social and Emotional Learning – what it is and how to integrate it into a whole school so it impacts on student outcomes
  3. Introducing YCDI– the five core social and emotional capabilities to teach all young people including 12 Positive Habits of the Mind needed by all young people to take responsibility Classroom Teaching Practices  - motivating students to engage in YCDI, classroom “conversations,” use of behaviour-specific feedback
  4. A Look at YCDI’s Social and Emotional Curricula – YCDI Early Childhood Program, Program Achieve (primary, secondary)
  5. Good Practices in Implementation –leadership, management, professional learning, parent education, behaviour management, assessment/accountability; early identification and intervention; a look at an YCDI school

3. Building Student Social and Emotional Well-Being

The most important workshop of the year for school administrators, decision makers, and student well-being coordinators for early, primary and secondary education.

For the first time data on the social-emotional well-being (SEWB) of over 10,000 students in Australia will be presented.

Hear from the voices of students (and teachers) who tell us what are the most important school, home and community practices that contribute to high levels of SEWB.

Six different levels of student SEWB have now been identified! Recommendations for responding to students at different levels of SEWBwill be detailed.

Additionally, this workshop will focus on how schools can address teaching the different social and emotional capabilities (SELs) that all young people need to manage their own behaviour, learning and emotional well-being.

Participants will learn how You Can Do It! Education is being used in thousands of schools to strengthen student social and emotional capabilities that latest research shows contribute to student well-being.

Workshop Topics:

  • What is student social and emotional well-being (SEWB)?
  • An ecological framework of student SEWB
  • How to measure student SEWB
  • Description of six distinct levels of student SEWB (from lowest to highest levels)
  • Report card on the actions of parents and teachers of over 10,000 students that effect student SEWB  (what students say)
  • What are the most important actions that teachers can take to support high levels of student SEWB?
  • What are the most important actions that parents can take?
  • Learn about the social and emotional characteristics of students who bully
  • Recommendations for school practice including setting up of a whole school social and emotional learning curricula as well as skills needed by student welfare/guidance counsellors
  • Core student well-being capabilities that support positive student well-being and engagement: Resilience, Positive Work Orientation, Positive Social Orientation
  • Conducting an audit to determine the extent of teacher proficiency in pedagogy for communicating SEL capabilities and the extent to which students have mastered the capabilities
  • The importance of a school-based preventative mental health curriculum (You Can Do It! Education)
  • Student “Self-Acceptance”: The core belief supporting positive student social and emotional well-being
  • Conducting an audit of resilient classrooms at your school
  • YCDI classroom, school-wide and home practices that support student well-being capabilities

4. School Procedures and Practices for Responding to Students Who Bully

Participants will learn about:

  • The latest research on the social and emotional characteristics of students who bully
  • School referral procedures for students who bully
  • How to document incidents of bullying
  • Different teacher practices for responding to students who bully
  • How to communicate to a student who has bullied
  • Skills needed by student welfare/well-being coordinators to work 1:1 with students who bully
  • Social and emotional mentoring of students who bully
  • Assessment and intervention planning for students who chronically bully

 

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