During July and August the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care ran five Professional Development Workshops for kindergarten teachers throughout Queensland entitled "Building systems for supporting positive behaviour in Kindergarten programs: supporting universal access to kindergarten", which was facilitated by Dr Laura Riffel.
Dr Laura Riffel is a behaviour specialist who has trained teachers, parents, counselors, psychologists and administrators on how to make evidence based decisions as a way to change behaviour. Laura is a well regarded educator with 30 years experience across a range of early years, primary, middle and high school settings. She travels throughout the United States presenting on functional behaviour assessment and writing effective behavioural plans for the United States Bureau of Educational Research and also as a private consultant.
The workshop themes included:
For those early childhood teachers and educators who could not attend the sessions or are interested in this topic the Department has filmed webisodes that give an insight of the workshop themes. Videos can be found below on the following topics:
If you have any questions about the workshops, Please contact Sarah Nilsen via email at sarah.nilsen@deta.qld.gov.au.
This page was last reviewed on 01 Sep 2011
Copyright |
Disclaimer |
Privacy |
Access keys |
Other languages
© The State of Queensland (Department of Education, Training and Employment) 2011.
