first workshop

Douglas and I ran a session with the Access Unit on Friday, giving an overview of the micro-skills and the TROPIC program. I felt it went pretty well.

We started by getting each person present (it was a small group) to give a brief description of their worst classroom management experience. Then we went through the micro-skills (took a bit longer than planned). Brief morning tea break, then a look at how the process works and what is on the sheets. For a wrap-up we asked for feedback on the program itself and on the presentation.

The main points were, that it's good to shift to more of a teaching/learning focus rather than the behaviour management per se; and that people who begin teaching with a Cert IV need a lot more support in how to teach.

We may get a chance to run a session with RATEP in coming weeks. I can't think of anything specific I would change in the presentation format - but personally I like to keep it open-ended and more of a conversation. Although we do need to tighten up the time a bit.