Description
This virtual conference will be a live stream of a live in-person conference being held in Edmonton, AB. If you would like to attend live in-person please register here: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/edmonton-educators/
This conference will be live streaming from Edmonton, Alberta to online participants on May 6 – 8, 2024 from 8:00am – 3:30pm MDT
This course is streaming live out of Edmonton, AB beginning at 8:00am MDT (Edmonton, AB). Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until June 10, 2024. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 5 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on May 5, 2024.
Pricing
Attend More and Save! 1 Day enrollment $269.00, 2 day enrollment $469.00, 3 day enrollement $669.00 + tax
Fees are per person, seat sharing is not allowed. Please respect this policy, failure to comply will result in termination of access without a refund. For group rates please contact webinars@jackhirose.com
Workshops
Day One (8:00am – 3:30pm May 6, 2024)
Workshop #1: Proven and Effective Interventions to Enhance Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP
Executive function is a neuropsychological concept referring to the cognitive processes required to plan and direct activities, including task initiation and follow through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and goal-directed persistence. While the groundwork for development of these skills occurs before birth, they develop gradually and in a clear progression through the first two decades of life. But from the moment that children begin to interact with their environment, adults have expectations for how they will use executive skills to negotiate many of the demands of childhood—from the self-regulation of behavior required to act responsibly, to the planning and initiation skills required to complete chores and homework. Parents and teachers expect children to use executive skills even though they may little understand what these skills are and how they impact behavior and school performance.
The importance of executive skills to overall cognitive functioning first became apparent in work with children and teenagers who had sustained traumatic brain injuries. Problems involving planning and organization, time management, and memory as well as weaknesses with inhibition and regulation of emotions have long described a significant component of traumatic brain injury. Executive skills have also assumed an increasingly important role in the explanation of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. While executive skills are clearly a factor in the problems that youngsters with disabilities face in school, it is becoming apparent that there is a significant number of youngsters who seem to struggle in school because of weaknesses in executive skills even when they don’t meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD or another disorder. These students will benefit from interventions designed to improve executive functioning. To do so, however, requires an understanding of what executive skills are, how they develop in children, and how they impact school performance.
This workshop will begin by providing an overview of executive skills, including definitions and a description of the developmental progression of these skills in the first two decades of life. The approach to understanding executive skills presented in this workshop is structured around two key concepts: 1) that most individuals have an executive skills profile that includes both strengths and weaknesses; and 2) by defining executive skills discretely rather than grouping them in broader categories, it is possible to design interventions to address specific deficits that lend themselves to data-based decision making. By completing a self-assessment, workshop participants will gain a deeper understanding both of the model being presented and of their own executive skills profile.
The heart of the workshop will address how to assess executive skills and develop interventions designed to address specific executive skill weaknesses.
- Know what executive skills are and be able to identify how they impact school performance and daily living.
- Be familiar with assessment tools used to identify executive dysfunction, including parent/teacher interviews, behavior rating scales, behavior observations, and both informal and formal assessment procedures.
- Have access to a repertoire of strategies to improve executive skills in students. These will include strategies to modify the environment to reduce the impact of weak executive skills and procedures such as coaching that can be used to teach children how to improve specific executive skill deficits in the context of home or school performance expectations.
- Be able to design their own intervention strategies tailored to the needs of individual students. Be introduced to classroom-wide interventions to improve executive skills.
Day Two (8:00am – 3:00pm May 7, 2024)
Workshop #2: Optimizing Self-Regulation and Managing Big Emotions | PRESENTED BY Caroline Buzanko, Ph.D., R. Psych
In today’s world, our children and youth face an unprecedented level of stress and pressure, making it hard to effectively self-regulate and manage day-to-day stressors. As parents, educators, and mental health professionals, it’s essential that we equip ourselves with effective strategies to help children and teens develop the skills they need to navigate life’s challenges. When they don’t know how to manage those emotions, problem behaviours often result and can negatively affect their physical, psychological, academic, and social well-being. For many, they struggle to meet even the most basic expectations. It is essential they receive the right support.
Join us for a transformative workshop designed for mental health professionals, educators, parents, and caregivers to build self-regulation and emotional management skills in children and teens. During this workshop, you’ll learn evidence-based interventions and practical tools to promote healthy self-regulation and emotional management skills in children and youth. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the children and teens you work with. Join us in this engaging and practical workshop, where you will leave with the skills and knowledge to empower children and youth to manage their emotions, overcome challenges, and build resilience.
- Explain self-regulation and emotional management in children and teens.
- Identify the role of emotions and how they show up.
- Differentiate misbehaviour from stress behaviour.
- Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that get in the way of self-regulation.
- Discuss the importance of co-regulation and how to best support children and teens.
- Teach children and teens what they need to know boost their emotional literacy.
- Apply practical evidenced-based tools and techniques to promote healthy emotional regulation and coping skills in children and teens.
- Implement techniques to help children and teens cope with challenging situations.
- Develop an increased capacity to support children and teens in their emotional needs.
Day Three (8:00am – 3:30pm May 8, 2024)
Workshop #3: Working with Highly Emotionally Dysregulated Children & Adolescence | PRESENTED BY Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP
Dr. Webb will additionally address key childhood disorders that left untreated can lead to maladaptive coping behaviours in adulthood. Dr. Webb will teach participants how to apply and adapt various skills training to reflect the language of children and how to establish a safe and supportive classroom in which children can learn and generalize these skills. Working with emotionally-dysregulated children in your classroom can be overwhelming and exhausting. You probably feel the pull of being the “saviour” for dysregulated children and their worried parents. Learn how to implement the skills you need to be more effective in the classroom, avoid burnout and achieve positive outcomes.
