Incredible Years Wales:
The Welsh Centre for Promoting
the Incredible Years Programmes
Webster-Stratton Teacher
Classroom Management Group Leader Training
Three-day training course to prepare people
to deliver the
Incredible Years
Teacher Classroom Management Programme.
The course will be led by
Dr. Judy Hutchings,
Director, Incredible Years Wales Centre.
Teacher Classroom Management Programme.
3rd - 5th October 2006
9th - 11th January 2007
Location : University of Wales, Bangor
Cost £375
Teacher Classroom Management Programme.
Leader training for the three day Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management
Group Programme was offered for the first time at Bangor in 2005 with great
success. Teachers spend large amounts of their time managing children who
display aggressive and non-compliant behaviours and these behaviours disrupt
both their own and other children's academic progress. The course trains programme
leaders to deliver the Incredible Years (IY) Teacher Training Programme developed
by Professor Webster-Stratton. This programme teaches evidence-based practices
and strategies that have been shown to reduce problem behaviour in the classroom
and strengthen children's social, emotional and academic competencies.
The
teacher programme is linked to the IY parent and child programmes all of which
promote positive and effective strategies to improve children's social competencies
at school and at home. These programmes have been extensively researched and
have been identified as 'blueprint' programmes meeting the highest research
criteria for violence prevention and the promotion of social and academic
skills in young children. The teacher classroom management programme has been
delivered to primary school teachers in North Wales for the last two years
and has received enthusiastic support from those teachers that have attended.
The
three-day training course prepares leaders to deliver the teacher programme.
It covers the content of the five-day programme and introduces the material
and the collaborative teaching style. The training is open to education specialists
with responsibilities for training and supporting teachers of primary aged
children and/or others with extensive knowledge of the IY programmes. Ideally
course participants should be familiar with the teacher programme prior to
the course and should be either an education specialist, a qualified primary
school teacher with experience of the programme or a certified parent programme
leader.
Dr.
Hutchings is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with a specialist responsibility
for services to children with disruptive behaviour problems with the North
West Wales NHS Trust. She also works at the University where she undertakes
research and teaching in the area of parenting. Her interest and experience
in this field has been developed over the last 25 years and she has run many
programmes for parents and children. She has been developing use of the Webster-Stratton
Incredible Years programmes in North Wales since 2000 and has run the basic,
school aged and advanced parenting programmes, the therapeutic the child dinosaur
programme and the teacher classroom management programme.