On Tuesday Oct 29th Tobey Steeves, a VSB TTOC and a BCTF Facilitator, led a Classroom Management workshop (one he is leading throughout the province in his BCTF facilitator role).<\/p>\n
The workshop had three objectives. \u00a0That participants would:<\/p>\n
Tobey identified that in classroom management the levels of intervention were approximately 80% prevention, 15% action, 5% dealing with challenging behaviours.<\/p>\n
Participants were given a “Know what you’re comfortable with” handout which they could use to self-identify their comfort level with:<\/p>\n
The purpose being that “Knowing yourself helps establish what kind of classroom you expect. \u00a0Understanding your own comfort levels will assist you in developing classroom expectations.”<\/p>\n
Participants also explored several classroom procedures the ways in which a TTOC can address them with the purpose of “creating a safe and positive learning environment”.<\/p>\n
The four goals of (student) misbehaviour were introduced and, in groups, participants identified what they would look like and how a TTOC might respond to them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t