Understanding and Developing Positive Behaviours in the Classroom

This pair of connected sessions is about effective classroom behaviour for all teachers who want to refresh and deepen their skills and understanding in this vital area.

The sessions will be based on Patrick Garton’s well received book ‘Understanding and Developing Positive Behaviours in Schools’ part of the acclaimed series of Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers’ and all participants will receive a copy of the book when they book.

These sessions will offer key psychological insights into the factors that lie behind different behaviours as well as practical approaches that you will be able to implement immediately. The sessions will help you understand and manage your own behaviours as well as those of the children and young people you teach. You will gain useful approaches to working successfully with whole groups as well as individual pupils.

We have designed this course to provide participants with the opportunity to reflect on and implement different approaches during the two week gap between each session. The final 30 minutes of the second session will include a live Q&A session for participants to ask questions directly. Participants will therefore gain most from the course if they attend both sessions.

This pair of sessions is ideal for Early Career Teachers and all teachers looking to refresh their thinking about behaviour.

Dates for the sessions are

Monday 4th December 2023 4.00 – 5.00 pm and

Monday 18th December 2023 4.00 – 5.30 pm. To gain the most from this course participants should attend both sessions.

Cost £40 per person and includes a copy of ‘Understanding and Developing Positive Behaviours in Schools’ by Patrick Garton

Patrick Garton the facilitator for these sessions, has worked in schools for over 25 years as a teacher, faculty leader, senior leader, Headteacher and teacher trainer. He is currently Director of Oxfordshire Teacher Training which trains dozens of primary and secondary teachers each year. He will draw on his recent book ‘Understanding and developing positive behaviour in schools’.

Accessing the online event

Following registration for this event you will receive an email from Eventbrite confirming your place. If you did not create an account at the time of booking or someone else booked on your behalf, you will need to create an Eventbrite account. Open your booking confirmation email, select ‘Claim Your Order’ and then choose a password. Make a note of your email address that was used to make the booking and your new password – you will need these to access the Eventbrite page containing the link to the event.

A minimum of 48 hours before the event begins you will receive another email from Eventbrite containing a direct link to the event and to the Eventbrite Online Event page. Login to Eventbrite, using the same email and password you used to create your account. You will now have access to the online event link and any pre-event materials. This link must not be shared with other people.

Please test the link the day before the event to make sure you can connect. If you need help please email info@otsa.org.uk or call 01865 647999 in good time before the event begins. We will be unable to help during the event itself. Please note, if you unsubscribe from Eventbrite before the event takes place you will not receive any further emails from Eventbrite and therefore will not receive the email with the link to the event.

We do not provide refunds if you are unable to access the event due to technical issues that are beyond our control.

Participation in online events

In all cases, at the beginning of the session to confirm your identity please ensure that your camera is on, your username matches the name you registered with and that you register in ‘chat’ with your first name, second name and organisation. This is for security and registration purposes and we may remove, without refunds, participants who have not confirmed their identity as described above.

Our online events aim to be interactive and at times you may be expected to have your camera and microphone on during the session, although usually your microphone should be muted.

We may use ‘Raised Hands’, ‘Reactions’, ‘Chat’, ‘Polls’, shared whiteboards and shared screens during the session. We may also use ‘Breakout Rooms’ to allow you to work in a smaller group.

This event will not be recorded for copyright and privacy reasons.

Payment

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Refunds

No refunds will be given with less than 30 days notice.

In the event of a refund request, please note that the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% plus 0.59p per ticket is not refundable.

To keep our event fees as low as possible, we are not able to issue manual invoices for later payment by cheque or bank transfer and we are not able to reserve places without payment.

We strongly recommend that you take out ‘event ticket insurance’ which may cover the cost of your fee should you be unable to attend the event.