Course Summary
This course will help you navigate challenging classroom situations by focusing on emotional intelligence, connection with students, and stress management. Learn how to manage your own emotions and model healthy coping mechanisms when responding to student distress. Discover the causes of challenging behaviour and explore proactive strategies for teaching responsibility instead of relying on punitive measures.
The course covers key emotional intelligence attributes, including active listening, empathy, and self-awareness, and provides practical tools for stress management. You’ll also learn preventative strategies to create a positive classroom environment and develop personal response strategies and de-stressing toolkits.
You will learn:
- The importance of emotional intelligence in behaviour management, emphasising attributes such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management
- Effective communication techniques, including active listening and empathy
- Methods to establish a culture of respect, clear behavioural expectations, and consistent reinforcement
- To recognise the impact of stress on behaviour management and help develop of self-awareness and practical destressing techniques
- Early intervention, relationship-building, and teaching stress management
- Development of a toolkit for in-the-moment stress relief, incorporating items like stress balls and fidget toys.
Course time:
About 30 to 45 minutes - perfect for after work or during a spare period. You will have ongoing access via your user dashboard.
Alignment to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards:
All of our courses are mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and your completion can be logged as relevant, teacher-identified professional development activity with all Australian state teaching regulatory authorities. To do this, grab your certificate of completion from your personal dashboard once the course is complete.
- 4.3.2 Manage challenging behaviour.
- 4.4.2 Ensure students’ well-being and safety within school by implementing school and/ or system, curriculum and legislative requirements.
Certificate of completion:
You will get a Cool.org certificate when you finish to prove that you have completed this course. You can access this certificate (and your course progress!) anytime via your personal dashboard.
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Course Content
How To Manage Behaviour In The Heat Of The Moment
Course Instructor
Your instructor Hayley Sommeling-Farrugia is an experienced Early Years Educator, Primary School Teacher, and Instructional Designer for Cool. Hayley is an expert at developing content that considers the educational journey from start to finish, as she knows first-hand the experiences, knowledge and challenges of the educators.
This course has been designed in consultation with experts in education and wellbeing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I log this PD with my State's teaching authority?
Yes! All of our courses are mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and your completion can be logged as relevant, teacher-identified professional development activity with all Australian state teaching regulatory authorities. To do this, grab your certificate of completion from your personal dashboard once the course is complete.
- 4.3.2 Manage challenging behaviour.
- 4.4.2 Ensure students’ well-being and safety within school by implementing school and/ or system, curriculum and legislative requirements.
How long will this take to complete?
About 30 to 45 minutes - perfect for after work or during a spare period. You will have ongoing access via your user dashboard.
Will I get proof of completion?
You will get a Cool.org certificate when you finish to prove that you have completed this course. You can access this certificate (and your course progress!) anytime via your personal dashboard.
Is this course accredited?
All of our courses are mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and your completion can be logged as relevant, teacher-identified professional development activity with all Australian state teaching regulatory authorities. To do this, grab your certificate of completion from your personal dashboard once the course is complete.
- 4.3.2 Manage challenging behaviour.
- 4.4.2 Ensure students’ well-being and safety within school by implementing school and/ or system, curriculum and legislative requirements.
Who are the instructors?
This course is designed by Cool.org's team of education specialists, in consultation with teachers, principals, psychologists, counsellors, and scientists.
Our team continually reviews and refines our resources to align with changes to the Australian Curriculum and best educational practice, so you can be sure your learning is at the cutting edge of education theory.
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