Overview
Fact: 20 percent of all students are diagnosable for a mental, emotional or behavior health issue.
This seminar will help classroom teachers, counselors, administrators and other school personnel understand how to support this high-potential, neuro-diverse portion of the student population while avoiding an unmanageable classroom environment.
In a single classroom, it is quite conceivable that
a teacher might be dealing with five or more differ- ent disorders. Some of the most common challenges mainstreamed in the classroom are:
• Anxiety Disorders
• Trauma & Stress
• Early Onset Bipolar Disorder
• Depression
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
• Asperger’s Syndrome
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
These issues are often undiagnosed and easily misunderstood – and may be responded to as simple discipline issues. Behaviors that tend to be common to students who are Wired Differently include: disorganization; perfectionism; trouble dealing with change; performance and testing anxiety; social anxiety and over- and under-reacting to adults and peers.
The second half of this seminar focuses on students who exhibit more hostile behavior – temper tantrums, fighting, cruelty and defiance. Typically educators slip into a pattern of coercion and punishment and peers start to reject these students — often leading to academic difficulties, poor relationships, substance abuse, delinquency and crime. But these students may actually have a Disruptive Behavior Disorder – Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder and/or Intermittent Explosive Disorder. This session provides effective practices for working with, and reducing confrontations with, these students. It examines each disorder and connects the dots between the three. Attendees will learn why get- ting tough and zero tolerance do not work and how educators can steer away from power struggles.
You Will Learn to:
- Restructure traditional practices that often fail.
- Implement do’s and don’ts for supporting this
group of students with dignity and respect. - Create a climate that balances between challenge and support.
- Reduce stigma and create a respectful climate in the classroom and school.
COVID-19 Update
With the ongoing concerns about COVID-19 (the Coronavirus), we want you to know that the safety and health of participants in this seminar is our top priority. Given the actual statistics and CDC recommendations, we are planning to proceed with the seminar and want to see you there. We’re also taking precautions to make sure the seminar is as safe as we can make it.
We are asking our attendees and staff to avoid handshakes, to wash their hands and to use Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer. These are all effective measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 – as well as colds, flu and other illnesses.
Video Clips
The 5 Keys
Implementing Accomdations
Consistency in Teaching
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Agenda
| 9:30-10:00 ET | Attendee Login |
| 10:00-1:00 ET | Positive Behavioral Supports for Students Who Are “Wired Differently“
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Five Keys for Successfully Working with Students Who Are Wired Differently
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| 1:00-2:00 ET | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 – 4:30 ET | Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Improving Outcomes for Students with ODD, CD and IED
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| 4:30 ET | Q & A |
Brochure
Credit Hours
Certificates of Completion for this seminar, which indicate 6 contact hours of Continuing Education, will be available at the end of the seminar upon completion of a course evaluation.
In many cases, depending on your Profession and Jurisdiction, this Certificate of Completion is sufficient for tracking your Continuing Education and Professional Development efforts.
We suggest that you contact your local Board or Governing Agency to see exactly what steps are necessary for approval in your particular discipline. Please note that Developmental Resources is also an approved Provider for the following National and Regional Accrediting Agencies.
Developmental Resources has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5602. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
AccuTrain Corporation, #1053, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. AccuTrain maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: (8/13/2019 – 8/13/2022). Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 6 Clinical Social Work continuing education clock hours.
A Certificate of Completion for 6.0 contact hours is available upon completion of Seminar Evaluation.
Wired Differently Seminar
Dates & Locations
Virtual Seminar
Friday, June 12
10:00 AM ET / 9:00 am CT
Due to the ongoing concerns regarding COVID-19 this Seminar will be held as a Zoom Meeting.
Wired Differently Seminar Pricing
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No refunds will be offered.
Seminar Presenter
Mike Paget, M.ED.
*In case of an emergency, another qualified presenter will substitute
Mike Paget, M.Ed. currently works as a consultant to schools throughout North America to help them better teach challenging students. As a state consultant for students with severe emotional and behavioral problems, he worked with ODD, CD and other special needs students for more than 25 years. Mike is an innovator of effective approaches for working with extremely challenging students and has conducted seminars across the U.S. and Canada on creative techniques for managing classroom behavior, student aggression and crisis intervention. He is co-author of Aggressive and Violent Students and Defying the Defiance. His newest book is High on the Spectrum: Asperger’s, High-Functioning Autism & Related Personalities.
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