Incredible Years

Kei tēnā, kei tēnā, kei tēnā ano. Tōnā ake ahua, Tōnā ake mauri, Tōnā ake mana

Each and every one has their own uniqueness, life essence and presence

About The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme

INCREDIBLE YEARS is a series of programmes for teachers (IYT) and parents (IYP) that are intended to reduce challenging behaviours in children and to increase their social and self-control skills. If you have children with problem behaviour in your classroom, the Teacher Classroom Management Programme will provide you with strategies to help improve the way things are managed in your classroom, help you promote pro- social behaviour in the children in your class and help you reduce a child’s aggression and non- co-operation with their peers and teachers.

Where Incredible Years Came From

Incredible Years was started 30 years ago in the United States by Emeritus Professor Carolyn Webster-Stratton PhD. Since then Incredible Years has been applied in more than nine countries. It has been shown to work across a range of ethnic groups.

How We Know It Works

The Incredible Years Teacher programme has been evaluated using randomised control groups. These have found that teachers use more proactive strategies and less reactive strategies to address problem behaviour in the classroom at course completion. For the children themselves, the programme effectively reduces problematic behaviours and increases social, academic and emotional competencies. These results have been independently replicated in Wales, Ireland and Chicago and there is more research under way. Studies have shown that for the most challenging students, the best outcomes occur when the child’s teacher and parents all participate in the Incredible Years programmes.

About The Parent Programme

The Incredible Years Parent programme gives parents strategies to add to the skills they already have, as well as helping them gain further confidence to manage some of the more challenging behaviours such as aggressiveness, tantrums, and refusing to follow rules. The programme has a very positive focus on relationship development between parent and child as well as home and school.

Time Commitment for IYT

You will need to be able to commit to six one-day sessions held over six months, and a follow-up one-day session three months after you have completed the programme.

Who Can Attend

Incredible Years is for teachers of children aged 3-8 years.

How To Register

Contact your local Ministry of Education, Special Education office. It is ideal to have a minimum of two teachers enrolled from your school/centre for the programme to be most effective.

Financial Support/Costs

• The Ministry of Education will pay your school / centre a teacher release payment of $1,000 for each teacher attending the programme.

• Your school/centre will receive the $1,000 payment after teachers have attended the second session of an IYT program.

• It will be assumed that if the teachers have attended the first two sessions they will attend the remaining four sessions.

• Private schools will be invoiced following confirmation of acceptance onto the programme.

For Further Information Contact:

RTLB in charge of IYT: Claire Hewitt ~ chewitt@cortlb.school.nz