Team Teach is accredited training designed to equip schools and educational settings with the strategies and techniques to support children and young people with challenging behaviour. Team Teach promotes the least intrusive positive handling strategy with an emphasis on exhausting all verbal and non-verbal de-escalation techniques before physical handling methods are utilised.
The Team Teach approach emphasises positive relationships as being the key element in behaviour support, with physical techniques serving as only one part of an overall approach.
Our Team Teach trainer, Becci Laughlin, is an experienced special school teacher and trainer who delivers accredited Team Teach courses. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to enhance the learning of staff. She is also a trauma-informed practitioner and is passionate about improving outcomes for young people, particularly relating to wellbeing and behaviour. Becci specialises in targeted support for the development of school hubs and integrated resources (IRs).
Team Teach Costs
Team Teach Level One training costs £105 per person and is aimed at anyone who is operating in a low-risk primary or secondary school setting. This one day, 6-hour training offers a grounding in positive behaviour support strategies applicable across these environments.
Participants will learn how to:
- Increase understanding and awareness of behaviour as communication and develop a framework to better respond to reduce risk
- Develop a greater team dynamic in supporting individuals who are distressed, with approaches that have impact and strengthen relationships
- Utilise a toolkit of holistic strategies on de-escalation and crisis intervention, both verbal and non-verbal for supporting with disruptive and distressed behaviours
- Execute simple and safe positive handling techniques including personal safety, appropriate for a low-risk environment (If required by your setting). Our techniques are situated within a respectful, supportive approach to behaviour support strategies which maintains positive relationships
- Following your settings subscription to Team Teach Connect, all attendees will be issued a course completion certificate, valid for 24 months.
Team Teach Level Two training costs £140 per person and is designed for individuals operating in a medium-risk environment and is ideal for those working in special schools, Integrated Resources, Pupil Referral Units etc. This two day – 12 hour training is particularly aimed at those working with individuals whose behaviour foreseeably poses a risk to themselves or to others.
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand the drivers and motivations displayed by individuals who are distressed and may become aggressive and disruptive
- Build a stronger team confidence around supporting behaviour
- Utilise a toolkit of holistic strategies on de-escalation and crisis intervention, including the importance of targeted communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
- Understand and know relevant legal standards and expectations related to use of force, and of the reporting, recording, monitoring and evaluating requirements of incidents involving physical controls and reasonable force.
- Execute simple and safe positive handling and personal safety techniques: including guiding, escorting and holding in standing, sitting and kneeling positions safely, appropriate for your service setting needs, which focus on maximum care -minimum force
- Improve expertise and confidence in staying safe, competence to carry out simple de-escalation strategies, and applying physical intervention in conjunction with a need’s analysis.
- Following your settings subscription to Team Teach Connect, all attendees will be issued a course completion certificate, valid for 12 months.