Alphabet Soup
Alphabet Soup
6-hour presentation
Audience: Pre-K – First Grade Staff
Short Description:
This presentation will focus on the variety of behaviors that show up in the classroom when teaching 4-7-year-old students. We are seeing more and more behaviors with this age group that typical interventions are not accomplishing the goal of decreasing the disruptions in the classroom. Dr. Riffel will share scenarios from real students around the world and the interventions employed that really worked ameliorate these behaviors.
Long Description:
In 1954, the kindergarten curriculum consisted of the following:
· Knowing colors, numbers, days of the week, seasons, coins, writing first name, counting to 100, and my father’s name.
· Skipping, singing songs, working with clay, cutting with scissors, and using books the right way.
· Coming to school clean, fingernails clean, taking off coat and hanging properly, tying shoes, being polite, being kind, taking turns, being careful with toys and materials, carrying my chair correctly, and eating nicely.
In 1992, the kindergarten curriculum consisted of the following:
· Knowing colors, one to one correspondence with numbers to 100, letter sound correlation, cutting with scissors, knowing coins, and being able to retell a story.
· The remainder of the curriculum was social skills.
2021- The Kindergarten curriculum now comes with the expectation of being able to read, sit for long periods of time, do math computation, and for many students includes an hour of homework each evening.
Dr. Riffel will show participants how to infuse social skills into replacing the targeted behaviors typically seen in 4–7-year-old students. Using her competing pathway chart, she will take typical behaviors and show you how to revise the environment, replace the behavior, and reframe the response to ameliorate the behaviors.
$3000