Learning Opportunity
Educational Assistant Complex Behaviour Cohort
Oct 15, 2024 at 3:30 pm MTN
Webinar will be recorded
Google 
Outlook
Outlook.com
Apple
Yahoo 
Flyer| Facilitator: | April Prescott | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date: | This is a multi-day event.
| ||||||||||||||||
| Cost: |
$100.00 |
||||||||||||||||
| Location: |
Virtual |
||||||||||||||||
| Session Code: | 25-IE-032-CARC | ||||||||||||||||
| Focus: | Inclusive Education |
Target Audience
Educational assistants
About this Learning Opportunity
This series of sessions is focused on supporting educaitonal assistants who work with children who experience behaviours within the classroom setting. Participants will develop an understanding of the underlying mechanisms to behaviour, how to document on behaviour, and theories regarding adaptation and modification for students. Themes will touch on competency in the role related to helping children through behaviours, maintaining and promoting self-care while working with children's big emotions, professionalism through ethics in the role as an EA, and looking at specific diagnoses that can be related to behaviours in the classroom.
This session addresses the LQS competencies
- 2. Modeling Commitment to Professional Learning
- 4. Leading a Learning Community
This session addresses the TQS competencies
- 1. Fostering Effective Relationships
- 2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning
- 3. Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
- 4. Establishing Inclusive Learning Environments
This learning opportunity is being subsidized through funding from Alberta Education.
About the Facilitator
April Prescott
April Prescott is a Certified Canadian Counsellor whose work focuses on children and youth in care across Northern Alberta. Previously, she was the Inclusive Education Coordinator for Aboriginal Head Start in Edmonton for 7 years, a teacher in a PUF program for 10 years, and 5 years as an Educational Assistant across K-12. April also provides educational consultation with on-reserve schools in remote locations in Alberta. Her areas of expertise within the APLC are early learning, mental... Read more »