Tuesday’s Child Outreach Services provide programming to both parents and professionals. Our services can be customized to meet the needs of your school or center. Our experienced staff can speak on a variety of topics to help develop behavioral parenting skills and teaching techniques. We have two programs running currently in English, Spanish, and Bilingual languages.
Positive Parenting with Confidence
Tuesday’s Child is a behavioral management program that provides positive parenting workshops. We offer a four part series that meets 1 hour per week for 4 sessions. We introduce positive behavioral interventions to encourage children to behave cooperatively and coach parents how to use these techniques effectively. Parents walk away with strategies that build trust and help maintain positive behaviors inside and outside the home. These are topics we would discuss:
Session Topic Overview:
- Week 1 – Praise and How Children Learn
- Week 2 – How to Set Them up for Success and Increase Cooperation
- Week 3 – Using Reinforcers Effectively
- Week 4 – Decoding Functions of Behavior
Positive Classroom Management
Professional Development for teachers
Tuesday’s Child is a behavioral management program that provides workshops for both parents and teachers in positive parenting with confidence and positive classroom management. We introduce behavioral interventions to encourage children to behave cooperatively and coach teachers how to use these techniques effectively. Teachers walk away with strategies that build trust and help integrate the challenging child inside the classroom environment.
This is a 2-hour interactive workshop that meets one time only.
Tuesday’s Child Professional Development workshop provides:
- Behavior management techniques that foster cooperation;
- Practical techniques and scripts that motivate students to behave appropriately;
- Tools for creating an open line of communication between teachers, parents, and staff
Key takeaways:
- Alternative scripts for No, Don’t and Stop
- Properly discovering the function of behavior
- Effectively redirecting to appropriate behaviors
- Differential Attention for classroom cooperation
Questions? Please contact our Director of Parent Education:
Cheryl Kaplan, cheryl@tuesdayschildchicago.org