Classroom Conflict 4: Initiating successful contact with the child
Classroom Conflict: Starting off with Good Beginnings Teachers know that one of the most influential things an educator can do to control behaviour in a classroom is to work with proximity in order to influence attention, cooperation and engagement. Teachers move around the room and interact in different ways to keep their lessons moving […]
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 […]
Positive Handling Feedback: “of a high standard and delivered brilliantly”
This training was of a high standard and delivered brilliantly – just the right mix of getting to know everyone, theory and practice. Gerard was particularly good at putting things into perspective – in regards to the law and our duty of care – when sometimes we are too emotionally involved to make the correct […]
Allegations and Teachers’ rights to Use Force
Dynamis provides a specific education-focussed one-day (or half-day where necessary) training course in the issues involved in use-of-force in a school setting. The case of Deputy Head Teacher Royden Cope has been much discussed in the news and we feel that Jenny McCartney put the issues at-hand very clearly in her piece in the Telegraph : […]
TCI Therapeutic Crisis Intervention used on 16-year old killed in care
Corey Foster was 16 years old when one day while at school, teachers at his school held him on the floor in the hold pictured here. He subsequently died minutes later. (Read the full story here) Assistant Director of Human Resources Tracy Clayton, far left, and Manager Lawrence Gill demonstrate their Therapeutic Crisis Intervention […]
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 […]
Sacked School Worker Wins £70,000 Compensation From Tribunal
The former Head of Care at a school for unruly kids has won more than £70,000 in compensation after a tribunal ruled that bosses were wrong to sack him for grabbing hold of a troublesome teenager (as reported in the Paisley Daily Express, Jun 21 2011) David Hutton was fired from his job over the […]