Educate and empower both parents and teens about the critical issues surrounding teen driving safety. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the risks associated with teen driving, including the impact of brain development, the importance of graduated driver licensing, and the dangers of distracted and impaired driving.
Focuses on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions (often lumped together under the label "social skills") with an emphasis on teaching students how to adapt, change and manage their own behavior.
Learn the history of the disorder, accepted methods to assess and identify students with the disorder, and various treatment methods that are currently being used to treat the disorder.
Identify characteristics and learning styles associated with the disorder, communication weaknesses, and various intervention strategies that have proven to be successful when working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Learn behavioral techniques and intervention strategies that remediate disruptive behaviors, reduce power struggles while increasing classroom control and reduce your workload and burnout.
Gain a contextual framework for understanding what students may be experiencing through their own substance use or the impact of substance use around them. Understand a multitude of complex dynamics that contribute to this biological and social phenomenon.
Understand the special learning needs of the abused or neglected child, and how to meet those needs in the regular classroom. Work with parents and community agencies is also emphasized.
Build genuine bonds between yourself and your students and between students and their classmates, to create "kindred classhomes." For many of our students, our classrooms may be a safe, nurturing refuge-the eye of the hurricane they experience as life. Build School Communities for Educators is about effective transformative actions. Develop strategies and rituals, along with…
Provides conceptual frameworks for working with families of children from a variety of backgrounds with emphasis on family-centered practices designed to help early childhood professionals involve and support families in the care and education of children.
Explore observation and assessment instruments, as well as recommended practices and available resources for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Outlines procedures for designing or selecting, administering, scoring, and interpreting a variety of informal assessment measures for use in schools. Learn about a range of informal assessment measures in the academic, social and behavioral skills areas.
Covers development during the first six years of life and research-based best practices in early learning with an emphasis on individual differences, cultural influences, and the impact of developmental delay and disability.
