Can you send a trainer to do an hour with the staff?
THE PROBLEM OF SHORT-DURATION COURSES AND THE ISSUE OF CREATING “MORE QUESTIONS” Can you send us a trainer, to do an hour of training? I recently spent a full day at one of the biggest Sixth-Form colleges in the UK, who have 3,700 students on their rolls! The assembled team – few in number – […]
How Incivility, rudeness and disrespect are damaging our workplaces and maybe our schools
The effects of incivility in our workplace “I studied the effects of incivility on people. What is incivility? It’s disrespect or rudeness. It includes a lot of different behaviors, from mocking or belittling someone to teasing people in ways that sting, to telling offensive jokes to texting in meetings.” Here is Christine Poarth’s TED talk […]
How to not escalate things in your first contact with the child
Hello. My name is Katie Dill, and I’m a trainer with Vistelar. I have also had many careers during my lifetime. One, college athletics. Another one, I’ve worked in treatment facilities, and I’ve worked with adolescents from the ages of 14 to 22 with mental health issues. Finally, I am currently a special education teacher […]
Non-Escalation and De-escalation Training at Trainer-level for Schools
We are delighted to announce that Vistelar Conflict Management Train-the-Trainer will be coming to the UK in December this year! This five-day conflict management trainer course certifies individuals as instructors for Vistelar’s Conflict Management for Contact Professionals training programme, so they are authorised to teach this program within their organization. This conflict management trainer course covers important aspects […]
SEN Classroom Management – because you have a respectful language, the community is safer to work in
“Hi, my name is Katie Dill, and I am a special education teacher from Winnebago School District in Northern Illinois. I chose Vistelar as a teacher in the educational field because this is “how we do things”. In the professional field we know that we often get told we just have to respond. We have […]
Feedback from Secondary Senior Leadership Team SLT
Director of Training Gerard O’Dea recently delivered a series of sessions at a very large secondary school in Kent for over 160 staff in total. The comments below are from the senior leadership team who attended and reflect the customised information, specific to the needs and issues which modern secondary schools face. The school booked […]
Positive Handling and Guidance on issues of Touch in Primary Schools
Managing High-Risk Behaviours in Secondary Schools
Feedback from EYFS practitioners (video)
Feedback from Special School with Unique Needs (Video)