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Volume 16, Issue 3
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Spring 2004 |
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| published quarterly by: The New Hampshire Challenge, Inc. P.O. Box 579, Dover, NH 03821-0579 |
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| In This Issue |
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Gentle Teaching:
A Positive Approach for Challenges of Behavior and Learning |
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Presented by Dan Hobbs
8:30 to 3:30 Friday & Saturday May 14 & 15, 2004.
This is a two-day workshop
Crotched Mountain Center
Carter Hall
Greenfield, NH 03047 |
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About The Presenter:
Dan Hobbs is a special educator who travels extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe teaching parents, teachers, and human service professionals positive approaches to challenges of behavior and learning. Dan has written and produced books, articles, and videotapes on the topics of Gentle Teaching, but has spent the majority of his time providing "hands on" training to practitioners in education and human services. He has worked in the field for over twenty-five years and is the brother of a person with severe disabilities. He lives in Nebraska with his wife and five children.
What Will Be Presented?
This workshop presents the participants with an overview of the values, goals, and strategies that comprise the Gentle Teaching approach. Gentle Teaching is a multi-faceted approach that allows the practitioner to learn and grow with people with significant challenges of behavior/learning. Videotaped vignettes are used throughout the workshop to illustrate the efficacy and use of this pedagogy of living and learning. A primary aim of the workshop is to provide parents, teachers, and human services professionals with "how to" methods and concepts.
The participants will learn:
- Specific non-aversive strategies for defusing distractive, disruptive, and destructive patterns of behavior;
- Values, goals and strategies that support the development of a mutually fair and valuing relationship with individuals who alienate themselves from others;
- Proactive strategies for facilitating, supporting and empowering meaningful forms of participation and interaction;
- To identify and avoid teaching postures and practices that facilitate and support challenging behavior - and
- To identify, select, and communicate strategies that preclude the use of devaluing interventions.
Who should attend?
The workshop is designed to assist individuals who live with, teach, or in some way support individuals with developmental disabilities, the ideas, and methods discussed are appropriate and useful in all human relationships. This is not a method for manipulating people with disabilities, but rather a way of living and learning with all people. |
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Registration:
Fees: $60 for non-employees of Crotched Mountain Center
Contact Linda Hughes at 547-3311 ext 598 or Linda.Hughes@crotchedmountain.org
This event is sponsored by Crotched Mountain Center. |
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