- Positive Discipline in the Classroom Workshop
This two-day interactive workshop is designed for teachers, counselors, school staff and administrators who want an effective discipline approach that integrates social and emotional learning while reducing challenging student behaviors. Attendees will earn recognition as a Certified Positive Discipline Classroom Educator and will learn to:
- Develop a large teaching toolbox of kind and firm discipline approaches.
- Establish explicit classroom structures and procedures.
- Create an equitable classroom community based on mutual respect.
- Understand the motivation behind students’ misbehavior and how to encourage positive change.
- Facilitate effective class meetings teaching social skills and problem-solving.
- Learn Positive Discipline/Adlerian Psychology for use in the classroom and school community.
- Gain information on how to address the effects of childhood trauma and insecure attachment.
Registration includes the book, “Positive Discipline in the Classroom” by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D, Lynn Lott, M.A., M.F.T., Stephen Glenn, Ph.D., “The Positive Discipline in the School and Classroom Teacher’s Guide” with activities for students, “The Positive Discipline in the School and Classroom Leader’s Guide” with additional resources and activities, plus additional handouts.
Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be certified as Positive Discipline Classroom Educators.
If you would like to have staff trained as certified Positive Discipline Parent Educators to work with the broader community, including parents and caregivers, please go to Upcoming Courses page on the Parenting for a Better World website for the Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way course. The course material includes a manual of many experiential activities that can be offered in a parenting workshop or class to help parents integrate Positive Discipline tools and principles into their home life.