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Webinar Overview
Recorded on January 16, 2025
Purpose: To provide participants with a toolbox of strategies to support, teach, and reinforce positive behaviour in the classroom.
Rationale: The first 2 parts of this 4-part series on supporting positive behaviour are intended to help classroom teachers and school team members add to their toolboxes of classroom behaviour strategies. The first webinar in this series will focus on classwide strategies to reduce the likelihood of behaviour that interferes with learning and participation in the classroom and to promote behaviour that supports a positive learning environment for all.
Intended Audience: Any member of a school or district team who shares responsibility for providing behavioural support at the classroom level.
1.5 BACB Learning CEUs available
Part 1: Building a Toolbox of Classroom Behaviour Strategies
- Describe the M-A-B-Cs of behaviour and how behaviour may be influenced at each point in that relationship
- Explain how changing antecedents may result in positive behaviour change in the classroom
- Arranging the classroom environment
- Preventing and prompting strategies
- Teaching and practicing new skills
- Leveraging classroom procedures and routines
- Organization and management of materials
- Considering curriculum and instruction
- Pacing instruction and activities for maximum impact
- Maximizing opportunities to respond (OTR) and active student responding (ASR)
- Orchestrating effective transitions
- Balancing the ratio of interactions
- Responding to interfering behaviour
- Error correction
- Minimize – Maximize as a Tier 1 strategy
Presenter
Shelley McLean, M.Ed., BCBA
Shelley McLean is the Coordinator for Autism in Education (AIE) and Collaborative Learning and Development for the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority (APSEA), based in Halifax. Before joining APSEA, Shelley worked in New Brunswick as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor, school administrator, district ASD consultant, and provincial Learning Specialist for Autism and Complex Cases. She has also served as part-time instructor for UNB in Fredericton, NB and Western University in Ontario. Shelley holds Bachelor degrees in Arts and Education, and a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology. She completed a Graduate Academic Certificate in Applied Behaviour Analysis from the University of North Texas and a Certificate in Organizational Behaviour Management from the Florida Institute of Technology. Shelley has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) since 2010.
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