Topics Covered in the Course
As you explore the course, you will meet and learn with other teachers, school staff and childcare workers who are also interested in creating powerful parent partnerships discussing and exploring topics such as:
1. Pitfall of Communication: Communicating during the “Only’s”:
- Only the first of the year
- Only when you need it
- Only when their child/teenager is in trouble
- Only when you’re in trouble
- Only when it’s too late
2. Pitfall of Communication: The “Lack of’s”:
- Lack of clarity
- Lack of consistency
- Lack of value
- Lack of care
- Lack of “want to”
3. Pitfall of Communication: Missing the “Follows”:
- Following through
- Following up
4. Strategies and Technologies for Parent Engagement
- Set the stage
- Meet them where they are
- Deliver only value
- Show continual respect
5. Healthy boundaries
- Pick your communication lines
- Pick your tools
- Pick your times
AboutBehaviour Specialist Jason Gibson
Jason Gibson is a leading US parenting educator, author and the director of the BabbCenter for Counselling providing guidance to leading counselling centres in Tennessee. Jason has worked with schools, early learning centres and treatment facilities across the US as a learning and behavioural consultant, supporting children and adolescents with social, emotional or behavioural issues.
With degrees in psychology, social work, and education, Jason’s peer-reviewed research has been published in journals such as “Topics in Early Childhood Special Education”, “Closing the Gap”, and “Education and Treatment of Children with Developmental Disabilities”.
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