Building Young Children’s Positive Behaviours
Parents and Teachers Training Programme
Students’ behavioural, social or emotional difficulties are often the hindrance to learning and the core of conflict within a family. Through intensive training and hands-on practices to train parents and professionals, we have very successful experiences in the past four years. ALL parents and children who have joined the programme have a different degree of speedy progress. Through this 6-week intensive training programme, by adopting the train-the-trainer and spiral approaches, parents and kindergarten teachers will be able to:
- Understand and analyse young children’s functional behaviour and causes of their social-emotional difficulties
- Use principles from Applied Behavioural Analysis and visual approaches to build up young children’s positive compliant behaviours and eliminate negative behaviours
- Develop children’s essential social, communication, and emotional skills through games
- Set appropriate targets to train their children
- apply the knowledge and skills in supporting and motivating young children’s academic learning
- generalize the skills learnt in the home environment
- involve and train other family members in the training
Teaching Mode
✅ Theory ✅ Demonstration ✅ Authentic case study video
Teaching Characteristics
(1) 1 on 1 practice with mentor in class
(2) Conduct home training after acquiring skills in every class and take video of the home training for mentor’s review.
(3) The mentor will give feedback to participant whether they have done it right. The mentor will also practise 1 on 1 again in next lesson and strengthen the skills.
(4) Participants will revise the skills in each lesson and at the same time acquire new knowledge. Practice makes perfect. This is why participants can make changes in 6 weeks.
Instructor
Mrs. Kit Chan
Mrs. Chan is a first-class professional with more than 30 years of experience in special education and early childhood education. She was the Vice Principal of Jockey Club Sarah Roe School under the English Schools Foundation, the local consultant for ten special schools to support their curriculum development, and the parental programme leader of the Jockey Club “Play n Gain” project. She has extensive experience in leading workshops and training professionals in many kindergartens, special schools, and tertiary institutions, both local and international organizations. Her special interest is in child development, Autism, ADHD, and behaviour management.
She has run numerous seminars and workshops for teachers and parents in Hong Kong, Macau, and China. To name a few, they are the Education Bureau, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Baptist University, ESF schools, Child Development Centre, YWCA, and many other schools and kindergartens. She is an award winner of three teaching awards at the Faculty and University levels. She mainly teaches Post Graduate Diploma Education Programme with students majoring in Special Education and Early Childhood Education.
More information about Professional Development led by Mrs. Kit Chan is available under the column OTHERS https://web.edu.hku.hk/faculty-academics/kitchan2.
Who should join?
( 1 ) Parents of children aged 2.5 – 6
( 2 ) Teachers working in pre-schools
Learning mode in class:
Intensive Parental Training (lessons, practice with mentor, individual targets set for the child, and video feedback on participant’s skills)
Details of the training programme:
Date: 29 April to 10 June 2023 (6 sessions on every Saturday except 3 June 2023)
Venue: Main campus of The University of Hong Kong (HKU MTR Station)
Certificate: Participants with 100% attendance will receive a Certificate issued by our Centre
Programme outline: Please click here
Registration Closing Date
28 Feb 2023（The programme runs once a year only）
Enquiry
Email：caise@hku.hk
WhatsApp: 6137 6679