Grades k-12
How to Unlock Their Potential
and Survive the Process!
Learn Practical, Supportive Strategies for Working with:
• Attention-Seeking Students
• Manipulative Students
2014
October
Schedule:
Jacksonville, FL
Oct. 15, 2014
• Angry/Defiant Students
• Apathetic Students
Charlotte, NC
Oct. 16, 2014
Inland Empire, CA
Oct. 27, 2014
Honolulu, HI
Oct. 24, 2014
Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 20, 2014
Agenda
With today’s increased focus on academic
success and measurable outcomes, how
educators handle defiant, manipulative,
apathetic or attention-seeking students can
often be the difference between success or
failure in a given classroom – or an entire
school. The disruption to the classroom
and the energy that the educator must
expend to address behavioral issues can
create serious roadblocks to learning.
Situations with difficult students have a
way of intensifying quickly. Before an
educator realizes what is happening, an
annoying situation can escalate into a fullblown crisis. Suddenly it is no longer the
student’s problem, but the educator’s
problem. Even well-seasoned, awardwinning master educators can be rattled by
certain types of students in specific
situations.
This power-packed seminar will provide
you with up-to-date insights and strategies
for reaching and helping these students
who can evoke strong feelings of frustration
and discouragement. Educators will learn a
five-step responsibility-centered approach
that has been proven effective in helping
educators become masters of challenging
moments with students. These skills
complement and supplement Response to
Intervention (RTI) and Positive
Behavioral Interventions & Supports
(PBIS).
You Will Learn:
• Up-to-Date Insights about the
Underlying Causes of Difficult Behaviors
in Students
• Recommended Do’s And Don’ts to
Address Specific Behaviors
• Key Strategies for Migrating from an
Obedience-Centered Approach to a
Responsibility-Centered Approach
• Innovative Ways to Support Positive
Behavior
• Strategies for Preventing the Escalation
of Difficult Behavior
8:00 – 8:30
8:30 – 10:00
Registration
What Makes Some Behaviors So “Difficult”?
• Recognizing the Underlying (and Often Unseen) Causes
of Difficult Behavior
• Why So Many Current School/Classroom Discipline
Methods Fail
• The “Four R’s” and the “Missing R” of Working with
Difficult Students
• Addressing Three Levels of Challenge Intensity
10:00 – 10:15
10:15 – 12:00
Break
Insights, Tips & Strategies
• Attention-Seeking Students (Such as Self-Centered or
Narcissistic Students, Class Clowns & Grandstanders)
• Manipulative Students (Such as Social/Emotional
Game-Playing, Bullying, Rumoring/Gossiping &
Persistently Dishonest Students)
• Angry & Defiant Students (Such as Argumentative,
Authority-Testing & Resistant Students or Those with
Temper Outbursts)
• Apathetic Students (Such as Disengaged,
Unmotivated, Uncaring & Unresponsive Students)
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:15
Keys to Becoming a Master of Challenging Moments
• Migrating from an Obedience-Centered Approach to a
Responsibility-Centered Approach
• Employing “Guided Conversations” to Address Critical
Moments
• Five Key Steps for Transferring Ownership of the
Behavior to the Student
• Do’s and Don’ts for Establishing Student Responsibility
2:15 – 2:30
2:30 – 3:30
Break
Tying It All Together
• Helping a Team of Educators Build Stronger Insights
and Commitments toward “Difficult Students”
• Implementing Five Key Steps “in the Moment”
• Handling Particularly Challenging Issues with Students
• Review of the Top 10 Insights and Practices
3:45 – 4:15
Questions and Answers (Optional Attendance)
Who Should Attend?
• Classroom Teachers
• Principals
• Assistant Principals
• Deans of Students
• Behavioral Specialists
• School Counselors
You Will Receive:
• School Social Workers
(All Levels)
• School Psychologists
• Special Education Personnel
• After-School Program
Coordinators
To augment the PowerPoint presentation and hands-on
activities, each participant will receive a handout full of ideas,
forms, activities and other suggested resources.
About the Presenter
For maximum benefit, it is recommended you bring
a team of 3 or more educators to this seminar.
Larry Thompson
In case of an emergency, another equally qualified presenter will substitute.
Author of Give ’em Five, Larry Thompson is
often called upon to deliver keynote
presentations for state and national
education conferences because of his
knowledge, humor and passion for assisting
today’s students. He has helped thousands
of educators and schools throughout North
America break away from their traditional discipline models
to a model that creates a responsible climate and responsible
students.
Larry has served in a wide variety of roles in education – from
special education teacher to alternative and traditional high
school principal. As creator of the Responsibility-Centered
Discipline program, Larry understands that systems must be
created that can be realistically implemented and sustained.
Program Information
PROGRAM FEES: The early bird discount fee is $149. If form is postmarked or
faxed after the early bird deadline, the advance registration fee will be $159.
Regular on-Site registration is $169 (including registrations received 3
business days prior to the seminar date). This fee includes refreshments and
materials but does not include meals, hotel or parking.
Substitutions are welcome at any time. Developmental Resources, Inc.
reserves the right to cancel any seminar in the event of insufficient
registration, in which case a full refund will be returned. If for any reason the
seminar is not held, Developmental Resources’ liability is limited to a refund
of the registration fee paid.
GROUP DISCOUNT: When 3 or more people register together from the same
school district or agency, each participant is entitled to a $25 discount off
their registration fee. For 10 or more attendees registering together, each
participant is entitled to a $40 discount. For 20 or more attendees, call
1-800-251-6805 for pricing. To receive a group discount, all participants in
the group must register at the same time and have a group
representative as the contact person.
CERTIFICATES: Certificates of Completion for this seminar, which indicate
up to 6 Contact Hours of Continuing Education, will be available at the end
of the seminar. Please note that Developmental Resources, Inc. is an
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a block of sleeping rooms has been reserved at a group discount. Please
reserve your hotel room early and ask for the Developmental Resources or
Difficult Students discount.
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concerns, call us at 1-800-251-6805. If you require special accommodations
due to a disability, please fax us at 757-227-6804 or email us at [email protected]
at least 2 weeks prior to the seminar, and note your request on your
registration form.
CANCELLATION POLICY: All cancellations incur a $20 administrative fee and
must be received in writing or electronically seven days prior to seminar. No
refunds will be issued on cancellations received after that date.
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Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. Developmental Resources
maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: (8/13/20138/13/2016). Social workers should contact their regulatory board to
determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers
participating in this course will receive up to 6 Clinical Social Work
continuing education clock hours.
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q Honolulu, HI
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(W) Sept. 24, 2014
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q Las Vegas, NV
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Make Plans to Attend these Summer Conferences!
Visit www.dev-resources.com for more information.
This is a must-attend gathering for
principals, deans, teachers and counselors
focused on improving academic
performance by applying the most current
innovations and research of schoolwide
discipline, behavior intervention and
classroom management K-12.
June 22-24, 2015 | Las Vegas | www.sdiscipline.com
This event focuses on the social
and cultural factors which make
bullying and cyberbullying unique
to females K-12. It helps educators
and other professionals
understand the latest research and
field-tested intervention strategies surrounding relational
aggression among girls.
June 22-24, 2015 | Las Vegas | www.stopgirlbullying.com
This gathering provides an
opportunity for teachers,
administrators and other
educators to learn about new
insights and strategies for
reaching and teaching students. It emphasizes evidence-based and
novel instructional practices from national-exemplary programs
currently being used in schools. This event assembles internationally
recognized innovators together with practicing educators who are
currently finding success with promising fresh approaches and
research-based methodologies.
This conference provides
critical insights and best
practices for reaching
and teaching students
with emotional and
behavioral conditions.
This event is appropriate for regular classroom teachers, special
education teachers, counselors and administrators K-12. Particular
focus is given to working with students in inclusive classroom
settings.
June 29 - July 1, 2015 | Atlanta | www.wireddiff.com
This conference offers
creative and researchbased solutions to help
counselors and other
professionals connect
with and empower
students with different types of challenges. Internationally known
presenters and ground-breaking practitioners will focus on the
novel, creative, practical side of counseling students K-12.
June 29 - July 1, 2015 | Atlanta | www.innovativecounselors.com
June 22-24, 2015 | Las Vegas | www.innovativeteach.com
Give ‘Em Five – A Five-Step Approach to Handling Challenging Moments with Children/Students
$24.95
Grades K-6
$24.95
Grades 7-12
Have you ever been faced with a student who is defiant, oppositional, “in-your-face” and you momentarily lose
your ability to handle the situation as well as you would like? The Give ‘Em Five approach has been used with
much success by classroom and special education teachers, administrators, counselors and support staff across
North America. This book places at your fingertips 30 case examples of challenging moments and provides
specific recommendations for how to handle different situations with students who are attention-seeking,
manipulative or apathetic. Collectively, these cases can help you and your colleagues to gain fresh ideas for
how to handle those moments when students need our feedback, but the right words aren’t always there for
us. In particular, each book will help you gain fresh ideas for dialoguing with students who respond to you
with different intensity: Level 1—Compliance, Level 2—Moderate Noncompliance, and Level 3—Severe
Noncompliance
Response-Ability Mats and Ricky Ritat Goes to School
$39.95 for the mats / $49.95 for the set
Grades PK-2
This book is designed to help teachers explain how the Response-Ability Mats and Process works.
Response-Ability Mats help make the process more concrete for younger students: the child uses
the red mat to regain composure, then moves to the yellow mat when he or she is ready to begin
thinking about what he or she could do differently. The child then moves to the blue mat when
he or she is ready to work with the teacher. Each mat measures 12"x 12".
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Defying the Defiance
$29.95
Grades K-12
This book will help you find effective ways to avoid
disruption and increase cooperation from the most
resistant students. You will be able to develop
additional strategies that will lead to increased
classroom success and satisfaction for both the
defiant student and the teacher!
Positive Behavior for Everyone
$24.95
Grades K-5
The behavior children choose affects everyone
around them. Professional educators and parents are
finding that they are more successful at fostering
effective learning environments when they focus
more on encouraging, teaching and sustaining
positive behaviors. This resource offers a variety of
approaches you can use to become more effective as
a positive behavior inter-ventionist with children. It
contains all the information you will need to teach children positive
behavior in school and at home.
Innovative Strategies for
Unlocking Difficult Students
$24.95 Grades K-6
$24.95 Grades 7-12
Some students are perceived by educators as
“difficult” to manage. Working with them can
be exhausting and frustrating at times.
Unfortunately, because of the behavioral
challenges they present to educators, these
students sometimes do not receive the support
and encouragement they need to succeed. These books contain collections of
ready-to-use strategies and activities for unlocking the potentials of “difficult”
students.
Helping Young People/Teens Learn
About Self-Regulation (includes CD)
$39.95
$39.95
Grades K-7
Grades 7-12
Self-regulation includes a set of skills
necessary for academic success,
emotional control and healthy social
interaction. With these resources you
will be able to. you will be able to
address children’s/teen’s anger
problems, academic challenges,
anxieties, school safety issues, self-esteem, social skills and much more.
The strategies are creative and engaging in a way to create change
quickly.
Interventions for In-School Suspension
$39.95 (includes CD)
Grades 4-12
This book is an essential resource for every school.
The goals of this program are to positively impact
change by instructing students about their
behavior, providing activities for them to
understand the behaviors and giving them
steps to improve. Included are worksheets,
reproducible activities, case scenarios,
suggestions and strategies.
Thrive in the Hive
$29.95 (includes CD)
Grades 6-12
Being a teenage girl in today’s world can be tough!
While girls and boys deal with many of the same
issues; some growing-up struggles are unique to the
experience of being a girl in our society. This
resource can help provide a foundation for girls to
navigate together through many of these issues and
relate them to their own personal experiences. Using
this curriculum, girls gain a stronger sense of self
worth and belonging in their families, with their peers, and in their
communities.
Award-Winning Professional Development Resources from AccuTrain™
Bullying Prevention Training DVD
$195.00
Available in English and Spanish
Educators can deter bullying by understanding the
behavior, learning how to deal with it and taking
action. This program addresses why students are
reluctant to report bullying, how to deal with
bullying, steps to take to intervene and working with
parents.
TA K I N G A C T I O N
• Learn what bullying is
• Why children are reluctant to report it
• Detection of bullying and intervention
• How to deal with students involved
• Working with parents
School Violence Training DVD
$195.00
Available in English and Spanish
This program covers the warning signs of
potentially violent youth and the imminent
warning signs of violence. It also covers steps to
take to de-escalate a potentially violent situation, as
well as the Crisis Prevention Plan and what to do
when violence erupts in your school.
• Warning signs of potential violence
• Imminent warning signs of violence
• How to de-escalate potentially violent situations
• How to respond when violence erupts
Gang Awareness Training DVD
$195.00
Available in English and Spanish
This must-see program can help educators
recognize, control and defuse destructive gangrelated activity. It will help staff differentiate gangs
from other peer groups; understand why gangs
arise and why students join; and identify varying
levels of gang involvement.
• Differentiate gangs from other peer groups
• Understand why gangs arise, how they spread and why students join
• Identify varying levels of gang involvement
• Recognize gang behavior and communication methods
• Take effective and appropriate measures
Sexual Harassment Training DVD
$195.00
Available in English and Spanish
How does one define sexual harassment in schools
— among students, between a teacher and a
student, among faculty members? A simple touch, a
frivolous word or an awkward glance can have
hurtful and disastrous results. This program:
• Defines inappropriate behavior
• Reveals how their own actions might be offensive
to others
• Leads to a greater understanding of how innocent and even flattering
behavior may offend others
Grades k-12
How to Unlock Their Potential
and Survive the Process!
Earn up to 6 Contact Hours!
Metro
Area
Seminar
Dates
Seminar Hotel Location
Hotel
Reservations
Early Bird Discount
Deadline
Jacksonville, FL
Oct. 15, 2014
(Wednesday)
Holiday Inn Baymeadows East
11083 Nurseryfields Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32256
904-854-8000
Sept. 22, 2014
(Monday)
Charlotte, NC
Oct. 16, 2014
(Thursday)
Hilton Garden Inn-Rock Hill
650 Tinsley Way, Rock Hill, SC 29730
803-325-2800
Sept. 23, 2014
(Tuesday)
Honolulu, HI
Oct. 24, 2014
(Friday)
Hilton Waikiki Beach
2500 Kuhio Ave., Honolulu, HI 96815
808-922-0811
Sept. 24, 2014
(Wednesday)
Inland Empire, CA
Oct. 27, 2014
(Monday)
Ontario Airport Hotel
700 North Haven Ave., Ontario, CA 91764
909-980-0400
Sept. 29, 2014
(Monday)
Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 20, 2014
(Monday)
Westgate Las Vegas Resort
3000 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-732-5111
Sept. 22, 2014
(Monday)
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January 13
Indianapolis, IN
January 14
• Attention-Seeking Students
• Manipulative Students
Columbus, OH
January 15
Bellevue, WA
January 24
Bloomington, MN
January 27
Des Moines, IA
January 29
• Angry/Defiant Students
• Apathetic Students
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