Description
Imagine a classroom that is calm, well-managed and centered on learning, not behavior management.
Join us for a practical program introducing research-based activities from Dr. Kenney’s most recent works Bloom Your Room and 70 Play Activities To Enhance Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior. Discover simple activities to enhance competence, confidence, communication and collaboration. Get ahead of misbehavior by teaching with the brain in mind!
CPD
CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 1.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
Target Audience
Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Establish a new social-emotional literacy tool for classrooms called Bloom Your Room, created as a 50-piece art collection with research-based strategies, tools and activities build into it. Kids will enjoy the art, talking about the characters and learning social skills, kindness and empathy without any resistance.
- Show how to fill your tool-box with words and activities to help your students on a healthy path to good behavior and top-notch learning.
- Describe exactly what to say to encourage students to be prosocial, kind and caring with one another, allowing you more time to do what you love, teach.
Outline
- Learning Objectives
- Cognitive Science behind learning and memory
- Cognitive Detective
- Cognitive Conversations
- Tool-box
- 10 Thinking Skill Activities
- The Love Notes from Musical Thinking
- Slow Mo and Quick Rick
- Why We Move To Think
- Let Me Think About That
- What’s In It For Me
- The “Cognitive Conversation”
- My Attention Engine
- Process Speed Front Loading Worksheet
- The HOPPER Homework Planning Sheet
- Put A Bow On It
- Core Executive Functions
- Attention
- Planning and Previewing
- Approaching Tasks
- Initiation and Execution
- Reviewing and Revising
- Organization
- Memory
- Inhibition
- Time estimation, allocation, monitoring
- How We Learn
- What learning is
- How we learn
- Memory
- Neuronal Pathways
- Practice
- Movement
- Rhythm, tempo and timing
- Activities
