Professional Development

"I CAN DO IT "

October  11, 2008

Free to all PCACT Members

OEA Building

"I Can Do It" is an exciting classroom management system that offers educators a systemic way to improve classroom management.

The purpose of I Can Do It! is to help teachers in grades K-12, as well as other staff, improve their instruction and classroom behavioral management skills.

The curriculum provides the necessary foundations for classroom management skills on which other instruction and behavior projects must build: communication skills, interventions for difficult behavior, creating an effective climate, rules and routines. The training involves teachers in activities directly related to planning, maintaining, and implementing effective classroom management strategies.

Participants in the cadre-training program will participate in a task analysis of the curriculum that will train teachers directly. The curriculum itself demonstrates the model training that can be implemented in a school’s professional development program. Learning materials include a teaching manual that covers eight (8) modules:

(1)  Creating community

(2)  Planning and teaching rules and procedures

(3)  Reinforcement

(4)  Behavior management hints

a.  signals

b.  sponges

c.   transitions

(5)  Communication skills

(6)  Home & school communication

(7)  Intervention strategies for difficult behavior

(8)  Partnering