Special Topics

Q: What is the saddest thing you have ever known regarding the behavior of your peers?

• Good things!
• Business
• Student problems today
• Tomorrow's teaching assignment...

Defensive Mechanisms

Q: How important is it for you to be right all the time?

• Humor!
• Turn in Journal.  Staple loose-leaf warm-up pages together.  Credit is given for each entry ONLY if all of the following is present: Date, Quote/Question, and Reflection/Response.
• Defensive mechanisms

Behavioral Styles and Defensive Mechanisms (cont.)

Q: What "kind" of person do you enjoy working with least?

• MBTI meanings
• Four Behavioral Styles
• Defensive mechanisms

Behavioral Styles and Defensive Mechanisms

Q: What kind of person are you?

• Energy circle
• Behavioral Styles
• Defense Mechanisms

Revisiting Our "Field Day"

Q: When you think about what you eat, why do you pick the food you do?

• Discussion of yesterday's event
• Recapping last week's events/assignments

Tory Gant is Here!

No quote/question today.  We're meeting with Tory Gant today in the PLC room (room over the student entrance).  Lunch is provided.  Wear comfortable clothes, get your paperwork signed off, and we'll see you there!

Work Day--Getting Better Organized

Q:  From memory, what are the four things you should inform a school staff member about related to abuse?

• Humor!
• With PAL II assistance, please look through our box of resources and organize it.  Please review the contents and see where we are deficient.  We'll discuss this more on Monday.

Substance Abuse

Q: In your opinion, how prevalent is drug abuse in our middle and high schools?

• Take the Drug Wiz Quiz
• Discuss the answers

Referral Resources

Q: Why is reassurance oftentimes a non-facilitative response?

• Making referrals
• Assessing situations
• Situation Assessment Form

Communication

Q:  How much instruction do you need before beginning an assignment?

• Activity: One Way/Two Way Communication
• Application to Stages of Development
• Discuss the handout (in handbook): Comparisons between Effective and Ineffective Groups.
• What are the most common examples of ineffective groups you've seen.  With a partner, identify an example for each of the 8 descriptions for Ineffective Groups (turn in).

Facilitative vs. Non-Facilitative Responses

Q: What is the one thing on which you and your best friend disagree?

• Good things!
• Business
• Activity: Four Corners
• Facilitative vs. Non-Facilitative Responses

Facilitative Responses and Decision Making

Q: What does Johnny mean when he says, "That dumb teacher always picks on me!"

• Humor!
• Listening and Facilitative Responses
• Decision Making

Developmental Stages

Q: At what age did you "grow" the most?  This doesn't necessarily refer to physical growth.

• Developmental stages
• Skit related to developmental ages
• Questions related to each stage

Understanding Behavior

Obj: To determine the behaviors and feelings manifested in various age groups.

Q: Describe the most awkward time in your early or late childhood development.

• Debrief 20 Things
• Stages of Development

Group Dynamics and Building Trust

Q: What is your immediate reaction to two friends/relatives engaged in verbal conflict?  Is there something better you could do?

•  Human knot activity (2 groups)
• Twenty things worksheet

Communication, Listening, and Facilitation Skills

Q: How is the best way to "actively listen"?

• Good things!
•  Finish up Goals of Misbehavior
• Active listening (Activity: Listen Carefully)
• Handout: Facilitative Responses/Techniques

Influences on our Behavior

Obj: To better understand the consequences of our behavior.

Q: Write down the names of two people who have most influenced your life.  One you must know personally.  Why were they so influential?

• Influences on our behavior
• Positive reinforcement (Activity: Positive Reinforcement Game)
• Handout: Encouragement
• Handout: Four Goals of Misbehavior

Emotional Trust

Q: What keeps you from trusting others?

• Activity: Emotional Trust: Sharing Your Feelings
• Handout: Productive Group Characteristics
• Looking inward: self awareness discussion

Communication

Q: What is the hardest thing for you to communicate?  Why?

• Delivering clear messages
• Reading faces

Non-verbal Communication

Q: Is it possible not to communicate?  How?

• Good things!
• Business
• Activity: 100 Wishes
• Non-verbal Communication