Teachers take training honours

A TOTAL of 92 parents, teachers and special needs assistants in Co Kerry, who completed training to help children with behavioural problems, have been presented with certificates.

The Institute of Child Psychology and Education (ICEP) worked with the Kerry Education Service (KES) to provide blended training courses in the area of autism and applied behaviour analysis.

Each group met face-to-face on a weekly basis over five weeks and discussed topics they had read online during the week. The groups met in their local education service school, facilitated by teachers. One school embarked on a whole school training in the area of behaviour. They used the online course, Supporting and Managing Student Behaviour, as a basis for developing a whole school discipline policy.