Staff Training Day

The kids were lucky today. They had no school. The teachers had work though. But we were lucky in another way. It was staff training day and the last day for the first half of the term. We started work at 8 instead of 7.30 and since it wasn't an official school day we all got our jeans out of our closets and wore them to work.

First mollel and I arranged our room a little that lasted from around 8 to 10.

During

After

Then at 10 to 12 we had a little seminar/workshop with the manager of Mattson Home - home for special children and autism. The manager and some teachers came to teach us SCIP - Strategies for Crisis Intervention amd Prevention for Aggressive Children. Where we work we face children who sometimes can't control their emotions or get upset and act out. We have to help them and help ourselves as well. So we were taught moves such as

• Touch control
• One/Two person escort
• Arm control by one person or with assistance
• Seated wrap-up
• OneTwo arm release
• Blocking punches
• Front/Back hair pull (what to do when somone pulls your hair)
• Back hair pull release with assistance
• Front choke release
• Back choke release
• Kick prevention
• Two-person take down
• One-person take down
• Bite release
• Back hold underarm release
• Back hold over arms release
• Chair deflection

Practicing the Back hair pull.

Two person take down

Two person take down - face down.
Two person take down -face up

Them from 1 -3 we had the Autism Friendly Classroom Seminar led by one of our own teachers.
It was great as well. Bayu bought the book Autism for Dummies for my birthday and I read it and it really helped me alot. So I wasn't clueless during the workshop. Of course I learned alot of stuff. Everything I learned to day is really precious to me.



I'm really grateful for all these opportunities for more learning. Will try to share what I learned in another post!