Workshop 2:

Learning in the Emotional Rooms- how to create classrooms that are uplifting for the spirit

Are you sick and tired of managing student behaviour? Then dump behaviour management in favour of managing learning. The 'Emotional Rooms' model provides a conceptual framework to assist teachers and their students in establishing common ground for productive working relationships. It explains how to plan classroom behaviour models and strategies to ensure that consequences relate to re-connectedness with the activities of schools. The Model also provides striking frameworks to engage students in creative thinking.

Content:

   • Introduction to the Emotional Rooms Model: John’s story about surviving cancer
   • Attitudes and concepts: how our thoughts and emotions influence our thinking and behaviour
   • The Concept Model: using questions to build optimism and healthy thought patterns
   • Red Room: strategies for management and prevention of crisis situations
   • Mind Your Brain Program: inspiring ways to teach students about emotions and behaviour
   • Behaviour rubrics: constructing frameworks for behaviour, consequences and reporting to parents
   • Discipline with dignity: non-punitive management strategies for every classroom
   • Introducing the 'Chatz': teaching students how to manage their our own self-talk
   • Kids at the hard edge: strategies to promote genuine change
   • Developing thinking skills: an explicit approach to teaching students about thinking skills
   • Planning and presenting lessons with the Emotional Rooms Model: practical applications
   • The Strengths, Challenges and Growth Meter: a tool for identifying problems and planning growth

“Dear John, thank you for your excellent presentation to the judges. The issue of the impact of alcohol and other drugs upon the brain, and particularly the difficulties experienced by the young in our community are or vital concern to judges both as members of the community and in their capacity as judges. You opened the eyes of everyone in attendance.”

Brian Martin, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Australia”