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BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS MIBLSI State Conference 2012 MIBLSI State Conference 2012 Wednesday, March 21rst Wednesday, March 21rst Break out Session C-2 Hour Block Break out Session C-2 Hour Block Working with Oppositional & Defiant Students: Working with Oppositional & Defiant Students: Highlighting Prevention & Therapeutic Situational Management Highlighting Prevention & Therapeutic Situational Management Strategies Strategies & Bringing Out the Best in Challenging Home School & Bringing Out the Best in Challenging Home School Partnerships Partnerships Administrators, Educators, Support Staff This presentation will focus on evidenced based classroom management strategies for working with students who present oppositional and defiant behavior. While considering the needs of students with social maladjustment (Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorder) and students with disabilities that manifest in anger management challenges and defiance, strategies will be presented for preventing and diffusing outbursts and developing long term coping strategies and replacement skills. Each participant will receive a CD containing a toolbox of strategies for oppositional and defiant students, as well as resources and strategies for bringing out the best in challenging home school partnerships. Each participant will have an opportunity to perform a competing pathways planning exercise on a defiant student (i.e., resulting in a formal intervention plan outline). In addition, each participant will have opportunities to role play diffusing a defiant student. About the Presenter: Steven Vitto, M.A., CCII., BTC, MAISD. Steve has been a teacher and behavior teacher consultant, working in Muskegon for the past 33 years. Steve has degrees in clinical teaching, administration, and education. Steve is a certified Crisis Prevention (CPI) Instructor, a Certified Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Instructor, a Certified Davereux Personal Emergency Intervention Trainer, a Michigan MIBLISi State Trainer, a Certified Balanced and Restorative Justice Trainer, an RTI Classroom Management trainer, and an Adjunct Professor at Muskegon Community College. Steve recently has been involved as a college instructor for educational staff working in Michigan’s Telamon Migrant Head Start Programs. (This project is a statewide effort to encourage literacy and social skills among migrant and seasonal farm worker children and to stress the enjoyment of reading). Steve is also currently working with Muskegon’s You Turn Program, a specialized program which offers school services to expelled youth. Steve recently developed a training process for with Challenging Home School Partnerships. Steve can be contacted at [email protected] . or 231-767-7277.

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Page 1: Steve Vitto Breaking down the Walls: Strategie for Students with Oppositional Behaviors Presentation at MIBLSI State Conference 2012

BREAKING DOWN THE WALLSBREAKING DOWN THE WALLSMIBLSI State Conference 2012MIBLSI State Conference 2012

Wednesday, March 21rstWednesday, March 21rstBreak out Session C-2 Hour BlockBreak out Session C-2 Hour Block

Working with Oppositional & Defiant Students:Working with Oppositional & Defiant Students:Highlighting Prevention & Therapeutic Situational ManagementHighlighting Prevention & Therapeutic Situational Management

StrategiesStrategies& Bringing Out the Best in Challenging Home School Partnerships& Bringing Out the Best in Challenging Home School Partnerships

Administrators, Educators, Support Staff

This presentation will focus on evidenced based classroom management strategies for working with students who present oppositional and defiant behavior. While considering the needs of students with social maladjustment (Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorder) and students with disabilities that manifest in anger management challenges and defiance, strategies will be presented for preventing and diffusing outbursts and developing long term coping strategies and replacement skills. Each participant will receive a CD containing a toolbox of strategies for oppositional and defiant students, as well as resources and strategies for bringing out the best in challenging home school partnerships. Each participant will have an opportunity to perform a competing pathways planning exercise on a defiant student (i.e., resulting in a formal intervention plan outline). In addition, each participant will have opportunities to role play diffusing a defiant student.

About the Presenter: Steven Vitto, M.A., CCII., BTC, MAISD.Steve has been a teacher and behavior teacher consultant, working in Muskegon for the past 33 years. Steve has degrees in clinical teaching, administration, and education. Steve is a certified Crisis Prevention (CPI) Instructor, a Certified Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Instructor, a Certified Davereux Personal Emergency Intervention Trainer, a Michigan MIBLISi State Trainer, a Certified Balanced and Restorative Justice Trainer, an RTI Classroom Management trainer, and an Adjunct Professor at Muskegon Community College. Steve recently has been involved as a college instructor for educational staff working in Michigan’s Telamon Migrant Head Start Programs. (This project is a statewide effort to encourage literacy and social skills among migrant and seasonal farm worker children and to stress the enjoyment of reading). Steve is also currently working with Muskegon’s You Turn Program, a specialized program which offers school services to expelled youth. Steve recently developed a training process for with Challenging Home School Partnerships. Steve can be contacted at [email protected]. or 231-767-7277.

Scope and Sequence:

Etiology- the origin of attachment problems and social maladjustmentSymptoms- the characteristics of ODD, Conduct Disorder, and Social MaladjustmentThe Competing Pathways Treatment Model (From Functional Assessment to Replacement SkillsSetting Event Strategies Antecedent or Prevention StrategiesTeaching Replacement Skills

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Consequence StrategiesReward StrategiesLife Space InterventionStrategies for Working with Defiant Students

OUTCOMES: Development of Competing Pathways Positive Behavior Support Plan