Leading professional development in social, emotional and behavioural skills

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Leading professional development in social,
emotional and behavioural skills
department for education and skills Creating
opportunity, releasing potential, achieving
excellence
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Aims

• To consider good practice in leading
  professional development opportunities in
  social, emotional and behavioural skills
• To consider the issues involved in leading
  training in social, emotional and behavioural
  skills and how these might differ from leading
  training in other areas
• To be familiar with a range of ways of engaging
  staff in Continuing Professional Development
  (CPD) opportunities that lead to the
  establishment of a school ethos that promotes
  and supports the development of social,
  emotional and behavioural skills
• To explore the beliefs and emotions underlying
  a range of staff responses to training in
  social, emotional and behavioural skills
• To develop a range of strategies for motivating
  and enabling change
• To have experiential knowledge of a range of
  activities to use with staff to achieve key
  training objectives

Leading professional development in social,
emotional and behavioural skills
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Session Outline
Previous session Review of intersessional
activities 10 minutes Overview Leading
professional development in social, emotional
and behavioural skills 10 minutes
Discussion of reading and preparatory
activity Aims Links Activities
1 hour 45 minutes 1. Developing a
whole staff understanding of social, emotional
and behavioural skills and an
organisational rationale for developing
them 2. Strategies for encouraging
participation in creating an ethos supportive to
the development of social, emotional
and behavioural skills 3. Engaging staff in
development opportunities Understanding staff
responses 4. Exploring and challenging
unhelpful beliefs 5. Preparing effective staff
development opportunities Session
review Selecting intersessional activities 20
minutes Forward look 5 minutes
Total time 2 hours 30
minutes
Leading professional development in social,
emotional and behavioural skills
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