a visual presentation tracing the obstacle facing children in US society today and the impact on child behavior

1. Challenging Behaviors

2. In order to be successful, students need: Self Regulation Skills Communicating and Learning Skills Making Friends & Getting Along With Peers Skills

3. Confident Friendly Have Good Peer Relationships Tackle Challenges Have Good Language Development Communicate Well Listen to Instructions Are Attentive Successful Students are:

4. Why then do they do what they do?

5. What do students do when they can’t concentrate on a challenging task and are faced with something too hard for them ?

6. What do students do when they can’t get along with others and they can’t resolve conflict constructively?

8. Terrible Beware! Out-of-Control Bad Disruptive Difficult

9. May be used to communicate a message Challenging Behavior

10. May be used instead of words by a someone who has limited social skills or has learned that challenging behavior will meet his needs Challenging Behavior

11. Students engage in challenging behavior because “it works” for them Challenging Behavior

12. Many students engage in challenging behaviors in the course of their development

13. Many students who engage in chronic, highly challenging behaviors proceed through a predictable course of ever-escalating challenging behaviors

14. Sobering Facts

15. An estimated 9 to 13% of American children between ages nine to 17 have serious diagnosable emotional or behavioral health disorders (Friedman, 2002)

16. Students with Severe Emotional Disorders miss more days of school than do students in all other disability categories (U.S. Department of Education, 1994)

23. Basic Principles Challenging behavior can often be eliminated or substantially reduced by a change in adult behavior.

24. Basic Principles Individuals, parents, professionals, and others who come into contact with young children often have strong emotions, expectations, and beliefs about certain behaviors.

25. Parents and professionals need each other when it comes to a student with challenging behavior. We need to be partners.

26. “We should examine most closely the things we hold most dear." - Rene Decartes

27. Understanding Behavior Any Behavior That Persists Is “Working” for the Individual Involved

28. The Single Event Is of Little Consequence- It’s The Pattern That Counts Understanding Behavior

29. We Tend To Conclude That The Individual Either Can’t or Won’t Do Otherwise Understanding Behavior

30. We all have a strong need to be in control,

31. It is how we meet that need that sets us apart.

32. It is possible to win a battle and lose the war…

33. There are many children who begin their lives in poverty and without a secure attachment

34. Everyone needs love, especially when we might feel they don’t deserve it

36. All kids need : Predictability, Consistency and Positive Interactions

37. When a student struggles academically, we look for instructional solutions

39. If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all Pearl S. Buck

40. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal bias Amos Bronson Alcott

41. How you look at a person determines what you will see

43. All children need at least one person to believe in them

44. Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be created by understanding Albert Einstein

46. The greatest challenge to a thinker is stating a problem in a way that will allow a solution Betrand Russell

50. So let’s begin…