Thanks to the Watertown Public Library for hosting me for a staff inservice on Teen Behavior! Slides, handouts and links, follow after the break.
ICEBREAKER: Things we enjoy about teens
- irreverant sense of humor
- funny
- getting to know them
- enthusiasm
- potential
- interesting
- watching them grow up
- ideas
- keeps me younger
- perspective
- conversations
Slides:
Links: http://www.delicious.com/informationgoddess29/brain
- Myth of the Teen Brain
- Middle Childhood
- Early Adolescence
- Middle Adolescence
- Search Institute
- Teens & Sleep
Exercise: Behavior Situation Solutions
- Several teens discussing a party; older patron complains
- Defend teens if in teen room
- Treat like adults on a cell phone
- Ask to consider audience (friend of parents, police)
- Teen asked to leave at 4 due to disturbance, returns at 7.
- “I think you’re not supposed to be here”
- “We’d love to have you back… just not today!”
- Computer time limit violation after warning
- Personal touch – “What are you working on?”
- State consequences at interactions
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