The Dos and Don'ts of Dealing with Chronic Disruptive Behavior in Your Classroom
More than ever, teachers want and need strategies to deal with disruptive behaviors that drive exhaustion and burnout.
Join behavior specialist Kevin Dill, Ed.S. as he teaches practical, yet highly effective strategies that prevent chronic disruptive behavior and help teachers respond when maladaptive students become defiant, oppositional, and destructive. You’ll learn techniques that stop chronic talking in its tracks and strategies that get students to cooperate and complete work (while at the same time making them think it was their own idea). You’ll learn exactly what to say and do when confronted with behavioral tactics and traps that students use to confuse, annoy, frustrate, and exhaust teachers. You’ll learn the biggest mistakes that almost all teachers make when students become disruptive and powerful techniques that instantly defuse confrontations and power struggles with students.
Kevin Dill, Ed.S. is a renowned behavior specialist and educator with a rich background in student behavioral science applied in schools and specialized programs. Throughout his tenure in education, Kevin has served as a Special Education Teacher, Principal, Executive Director of Special Education, and Chief Operating Officer of a pediatric developmental center that specializes in providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and intensive clinical and educational services to students with extreme behaviors.
The acclaimed behavior training and in-the-classroom behavior coaching Kevin provides has been rated by teachers as one of the best behavior trainings and supports for educators who teach students who are disruptive and disrespectful. His training and support is the end product of “figuring it out” over the last 25 years. His innovative systematic approach equips teachers with strategies, techniques, and interventions that prevent and eliminate chronic disruptive behavior in classrooms.
This highly sought after training, The Behavior-Skilled Teacher: The Most Powerful Solutions to Preventing and Eliminating Chronic Disruptive Behavior in Your K-12 Classroom, is not just another training built on opinions, hypotheticals, or what “should” work. This is a systematic approach built on studies in human behavioral science and from experience in the trenches, teaching maladaptive students who are chronically disruptive, defiant, and disrespectful. Kevin trains teachers to use protocol strategies and techniques that work - not theory of what should work.
As schools continue to experience more disruptive and disrespectful student behavior than ever before, Kevin serves as a primary behavior advisor, specialist, and professional development provider for multiple school districts and special education cooperatives throughout the United States. His innovative strategies and engaging training have helped thousands of educators across the country improve student behavior in their classrooms.
In his systematic approach, Kevin trains teachers on exactly what to say and do when students become rude, offensive, obnoxious, insulting, oppositional, argumentative, aggressive and defiant. He demonstrates how to stop disruptive behavior like talking back, rude comments, and insults in its tracks. He models the most effective way to respond when students use tactics to manipulate and what to do when teachers realize they stepped into behavioral traps. He simulates simple (yet powerful) techniques that defuse confrontations and power struggles between teachers and students and keeps responsibility on the student. He shows teachers how to use researched based techniques like omission training, forward chaining, and feeding functions to eliminate and replace irresponsible behaviors with adaptive more appropriate behaviors.
