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Solution Focused Interventions and talk2me for Teachers and Pastoral Care Staff

In a typical 2-day workshop, you will:

• See how your job can be made more effortless and enjoyable by the application of solution focused interventions.
• Understand how useful it is to apply the basic assumptions and principles of the solution focused model to the school context.
• Hear about specific example of where the solution focused approach brings about behaviour improvement.
• Appreciate how the solutions focus to school and classroom issues, can reduced absence, reduce stress, raise morale and retain good staff.
• Appreciate the value of ‘talk2me’ as a useful tool for identifying problem areas in pupils, where mentoring help could be beneficial.
• See that both solution focused interventions and talk2me together, can promote increased co-operation between staff & pupils and school & home.

Programme Outline

Welcome

Feedback on pre-course reading

Basic assumptions and key principles of the solution focused approach

Solution building, not problem solving

Use of the formula first session task with pupils

Problem-free talk

Definition of the pupil’s concern/difficulty or worry

Finding exceptions - when are things going well

Pre-session change

Attempted solutions and going with what works

Goals – ‘SMART +’

The miracle question or fast forwarding the video

Scaling progress, confidence and motivation

The value of small steps

Listing positive change and building on improvement

Strategies for dealing with setbacks

Pre-suppositional language

‘Wise old you’ and ‘deathbed scenario’

Ending a session well

Our most challenging cases and use of the solution focused reflecting team in peer supervision

Engaging Pupils in a Solution Focused Way

The ‘talk2me’ inventory

Applying talk2me to identify individual pupil concerns

SFI and talk2me together, as a powerful approach to behaviour improvement

Review and course round-up.

“I have been a teacher for 20 years and was sceptical about this.  What I have seen has opened my eyes to how much easier I can do my job.” – Larry Potter – Barnstaple

“I am on the pastoral care side at the school.  How useful these tools & techniques will be for me in my 1:1s with troubled pupils.  Thanks!” – Louise Trewartha - Ilfracombe

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