This session will focus on designing interventions for students with executive skill weaknesses on an individual level. Dr. Dawson will share a template for intervention design, with a particular focus on involving the child in identifying the targets for intervention and selecting intervention strategies.
Enhancing skills that foster boundary recognition, determination and GRIT!”
As educators and parents, our ultimate goal is to make a positive difference to children and help them reach their highest potential and become the best that they can be in all they do. This goal is getting harder and harder to reach.
*How do we accomplish the great task of teaching our kids the BIG LIST of everything they need to know and succeed in life when they believe that all of their needs are being met through screen time?
*How do we teach our kids online safety? How do we allow technology to add to our children’s life as opposed to taking from it?
*How do we create an environment where kids genuinely "want it" more than we want it for This research based workshop takes a look at the things that world class parents and educators are doing to accomplish the "ultimate goal." By creating a craving for knowledge, setting boundaries, teaching GRIT, encouraging patience, and developing E.Q., our children can thrive with strength and confidence in their ever changing world!
The introduction of a simple key word signing programme for all students from Nursery through to the end of KS2, has been shown to produce a very real and positive impact on childrens’ language and learning. The benefits can be seen in all children, not just those with special needs and EAL.
This session will look at:
Participants will be able to learn how to sign some of the key vocabulary and will see video’s of signing being introduced to, and used by students within a real classroom environment.
In Julia’s presentation, “Unlearning Helplessness – Motivating the Underachiever,” she shares how underachieving occurs when people have a significant gap between their abilities, and what they achieve. In this interactive session, she will discuss the four types of underachievers, talk about the importance of executive function skills, explore the characteristics and causes of underachieving, and present effective solutions that can reverse this problem. “In order to open the doors of “untapped potential,” you need to have the right keys.”
Julia Cook leads an entertaining discussion on the use of storybooks to offer children and adults a fun way to learn important people skills. Teach your students to become life-long problem solvers! Julia will demonstrate humorous and effective ways to use books on such subjects as anger control, grief, following instructions, tattling, gaming addiction, bullying, personal space, interrupting, and personal safety. The writing and publishing process will also be explained - learn to become a published author!
*Understand the power and effectiveness of using children's literature to teach important people skills. Walk away with ideas that you can really use!
*Tackle topics such as tattling, bullying, interrupting, anxiety, depression, anger, oral health, personal safety, personal space, paying attention, risk taking, and even nose picking through active learning.
* Explore the writing and publishing process including a discussion on how to get your own ideas published - (Tips for Publishing Your Good Stuff sheet provided!)
Coaching is an evidence-based intervention strategy in which a coach (either an adult or a peer) works with a student to set goals designed to enhance executive skills and lead to improved self-regulation. Originally designed to help underachieving students achieve academic success, it has been expanded to include a variety of formats, such as peer coaching and group coaching, to achieve both social and academic goals. This session will provide an overview of coaching and how it is ideally suited to helping students
When the conversation turns to executive skills, teachers and parents often say, “We didn’t know anything about these when we were growing up—and we turned out just fine.” In this keynote, Dr. Dawson confronts that sentiment head on. The co-author of Smart but Scattered and other books on executive skills explains the executive skills framework she’s been working with for over 20 years—why it’s a better way to describe struggling students than calling them lazy or unmotivated, and why the more parents and teachers understand about these skills, the better they’ll be able to help students strengthen these important habits of mind. She will paint a picture of the strategies she sees as holding the most promise for helping students of all ages develop, tune up, and master these critical life skills.
Julia Cook leads an entertaining discussion on the use of storybooks to offer children and adults a fun way to learn important people skills. Teach your students to become life-long problem solvers! Julia will demonstrate humorous and effective ways to use books on such subjects as anger control, grief, following instructions, tattling, gaming addiction, bullying, personal space, interrupting, and personal safety. The writing and publishing process will also be explained - learn to become a published author!
*Understand the power and effectiveness of using children's literature to teach important people skills. Walk away with ideas that you can really use!
*Tackle topics such as tattling, bullying, interrupting, anxiety, depression, anger, oral health, personal safety, personal space, paying attention, risk taking, and even nose picking through active learning.
* Explore the writing and publishing process including a discussion on how to get your own ideas published - (Tips for Publishing Your Good Stuff sheet provided!)
Across the school years, students encounter increasingly complex sentence forms when reading and, in turn, are expected to use more sophisticated sentences when speaking and writing. Those who struggle with learning complex language often have difficulty with understanding text and expressing themselves clearly. Traditional methods for teaching grammar have proven to be ineffective in helping students understand how sentences work so they can read and write with ease. In this workshop, we will identify four grammatical structures that are known to be problematic for students who struggle with language and showcase how these grammatical concepts can be taught in a variety of settings using incidental/indirect instruction methods. The importance of developing a meta-level language about functional sentence parts will be stressed.