SLP. Speech Aide Training in Glendive
September 12, 2019 9am-3:30pm at Prairie View Special Services Register Here
Chelsea Phipps will share best practices and data keeping for thoes working with clients in a speech setting.
Communication and Conflict with Jenifer Cline
October 3rd 8:15-3:30 DCC Main Hall Lower Level Commuity Room Register Here
This workshop has been designed to help you understand conflict, how to resolve conflict, and learn communication and meeting strategies that will allow you to work more easily with others as well as more effectively work through conflict.
October 10 and 24 Meaningful Participation in Statewide Assessments
October 10 Glasgow at the Cottonwood Inn GLASGOW Registration
October 24 in Glendive at PVSS 8:30-3:30 GLENDIVE Registration
Description:
This full day training focuses on increasing educator knowledge about federal requirements and options for participation in statewide assessments through the lens of ensuring that students with disabilities are able to meaningfully participate in the assessments required under ESSA. Teachers will learn how to ensure that students have appropriate accessibility supports and accommodations and that those supports are selected systematically, based on student need. Participants will explore the use of interim and formative resources available for statewide assessments, such as the Smarter Balanced interim assessments and how to support students in accessing grade level content via use of balanced assessment system resources and tools. Participants will learn more about the rigor of the Smarter Balance test and how to familiarize students with the testing platform. Participants should bring a laptop or device that can be used to access IEPs. Participants will be provided work time during the training to apply what we are learning with the students on their caseload. This training would be suitable for districts and schools looking to improve participation rates and performance of students with disabilities in statewide assessments and promote increased access to grade level content.
Length: Full Day, with approximately 2 hours incorporated work time.
What to bring to the workshop: A laptop or other device for accessing and working on IEPs and accessing the internet.
Audience: Special education teachers, special education directors, system test coordinators, principals, and superintendents
Sleep Inn, October 17 8:30-3:30 Register Here
Presentation Description CSPD October 2019
A thorough presentation of positive behavioral interventions in a variety of environments will be presented to conference attendees. Discussion will center around types of behaviors; task avoidance, escape motivated, attention seeking, behaviors that produce sensory consequences, and the role motivation plays in behavioral success in many settings-school, home, and community. Children with a variety of differences will be thoroughly discussed. The paraprofessional audience will be able to apply the information presented through videos, activities, and examples of how to set up positive plans for the children in a variety of environmental settings immediately in their respective situations. The training will also contain discussions about setting limits that work and the application of positive interventions. We will examine the common pitfalls that sabotage behavioral intervention plans and what to avoid when wanting to make significant behavioral changes. Further discussions of how to implement 504 accommodations in a regular education setting will be detailed.
Throughout the presentation, the attendees will receive a vast amount of information on what seems to work best for the children and adolescents with the various disabilities, and how to set up positive behavioral supports and interventions for the individuals they are serving.
Learning Objectives: After attending this session, participants will
1. Identify why difficult behaviors are occurring, and what to do to change the inappropriate behaviors.
2. Gain knowledge about working with people with emotional and behavioral disabilities using positive behavioral interventions. Discussions about what strategies can be most effectively utilized with which types of disabilities.
3. Apply positive behavioral interventions to children and adolescents with Severe Emotional Disturbance to make permanent behavior changes.
Brain 101 with Dr. Linda Bone
November 7 8:15 am Richland Co Extension Building Sidney, MT
Spend the day learning with Dr. Bone about the BRAIN. Register Here
Parent/Family Engagement Evening
November 7 7pm Holiday Inn Express Board Room Sidney, MT
A conversation on parenting skills and how to help our children succeed. Register Here
Bibliotherapy and Mentoring & Coaching Strategies
Dr. Bone will spend the morning in Bibliotheapy and the afternoon discussing strategies dealing with coaching and effective mentoring. Register Here
Region 1 CSPD Board Meeting October 21
Autism Education Project:
FREE Online Autism Training
The OPI Montana Autism Education Project is offering 83 hours of online training in Teaching Procedures, Behavior Interventions and Focused Topics to public school staff in Montana who educate students with autism spectrum disorders. The training can provide 78 OPI Continuing Education Units. A listing and description of the training content can be found here. The training can be taken for OPI renewal units and ASHA CEUs and SWP/MFT/LAC/ CEUs.
The next group will start in mid-August and monthly after that.
For more information please contact Doug Doty at 406-459-5303 or ddoty@mt.gov.
CSPD trainings/events are free of charge and offer OPI Renewal units for all trainings.