Title: Designing a professional development program for a school
Due date: 2nd June, 2016
Assessment task link to unit learning outcomes: The assessment task is related to the unit objectives 1 to 7.
Details of task: You are an expert on PBS and have been asked by a school to deliver a professional development program on Positive Behaviour Support. Incidence of challenging behaviours has increased substantially during the last few years. The principal is finding it difficult to convince the staff to adopt PBS practices in school. He is aware that unless everyone in the school is on the same page, little progress can be made in reducing the challenging behaviours. He is wanting to change the school culture. He is particularly keen for you (as the PBS expert) to offer a PD program that will achieve two key objectives. First, he would like all staff to believe that PBS is a sound practice to adopt in addressing challenging behaviours. Second, he is keen for you to cover information on any one PBS strategy that the school can start using as soon as possible.
The assignment requires you to develop the professional development program. You need to produce the material for the school and submit it to the Moodle site. You can either use PowerPoint slides, Prezi or any other form of presentation (e.g. create a DVD). You should also supply notes for each slide/key idea presented. You can be as creative as possible to do this assignment. One of the most should also supply notes for each slide/key idea presented. You can be as creative as possible to do this assignment. One of the most critical criterion to assess your assignment will be to determine if your presentation will allow the principal to achieve the two objectives (school adopting PBS practices and them being able to use at least one PBS strategy). We are hoping that some of you will be able to present your presentation in the last face to face sessions of the course.