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In this episode, Clare talks to Dave Smallwood, Principal Team Teach trainer and Director at SENse Training and Consultancy, about pre-escalation.
Dave shares ways to shape the environment to support individuals and highlights how making adjustments can help build resilience. They also discuss the challenges of only focusing on crisis behaviour and how shifting our attention to pre-escalation can improve outcomes for everyone, through taking a consistent, values-based approach.
Dave has worked in special schools, for both the local authority and the National Autistic Society and has extensiveexperience of supporting young people with complex special educational needs and disabilities.
When he worked as a staff development co-ordinator for the National Autistic Society, Dave developed and delivered training in autism, and equality, diversity, and rights.
You can find Dave on LinkedIn.
He also shares three tips during the episode:
- Investing time into understanding pre-escalation can transform outcomes.
- Empower staff to make the right decisions around behaviour support by sharing ideas and suggestions.
- Be consistent around implementation of plans and hold each other to account.
The Team Teach podcast shares the latest thinking in behaviour, all in handy 15-minute (ish) bite-sized chunks. Eachepisode features a new guest chatting about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips to use in your setting.
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