Positive Handling 2-minute Introduction video
Classroom Conflict 3: Showtime Mindset for managing children
Classroom Conflict: Being in your Showtime Mindset Children present with challenging behaviour in classrooms and schools for two main reasons: Task (sometimes Situation) Avoidance or Attention Seeking. The dedicated staff who support those children during Classroom Conflict have seemingly limitless reserves of patience, compassion and empathy for them. When we at Dynamis see a professional in contact with […]
Classroom Conflict 2: The Five Maxims for Effective Classroom Communications
Classroom Conflict: “this is how we do business around here” Treating each other with dignity by showing each other respect Classroom Conflict demands that we approach it with a set of appropriate values. Any system of behaviour management, physical intervention training with children, or restraint training at a school, should come with a value system. […]
Classroom Conflict 1: Being Alert and Decisive
Classroom Conflict: Having a pre-planned practiced response in mind to deal with forseeable incidents Classroom Conflict demands that we are prepared and have some mental models for what we may have to face. At Dynamis we infuse our training in school settings with our Verbal Defense and Influence methodology, which brings with it an understanding […]
The Five Maxims for Effective Communication in the Classroom
How to use The Five Maxims in the classroom Listen with All Your Senses Ask, don’t Tell Give Context (Tell them Why) Offer Options Allow them a Second Chance Katie Dill, a Teacher, talks about how she uses the Five Maxims from VDI with the Special Needs Children in her class day in and day out. […]
4 in 10 Teachers attacked by Pupils
Attacked by pupils: 43% of the workforce being exposed to violence… Four out of 10 teachers have experienced violence from pupils in the past year, a survey for the ATL teachers union suggests (26 Jan 2016). Of those who had experienced violence, 77% said they had been pushed, and around half were kicked or had an […]
Course Photo: Instinctive Protection
During fast-moving encounters things happen fast! All the trainers our attendees meet on our courses have expert knowledge of the body’s in-built survival systems and how this expresses itself as very rapid and instinctive protection movements for self-protection. Here, Gerard O’Dea is doing a live demonstration for his training group to show how positioning, body language and the amazing […]
Restraint in school – what the law says
“You hope you will never have to use restraint, but if your duty of care leaves you with little choice: know your school procedure and record everything” An excellent article about the use of force for restraint in schools by solicitor Jade Kent. http://schoolsweek.co.uk/restraint-in-school-what-the-law-says/ Author on the use of force with children Mark Dawes adds […]
Positive Handling by the Numbers #5: Five Steps to Persuasion
Positive Handling Verbal Deescalation You may remember in my last post about Positive Handling Number 5, we looked at a stuation whereby a disruptive child was resolutely refusing to leave a classroom? “You cant’ make me! I know my rights! You’re not allowed to touch me!” How did we get here? In my previous […]