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Webinar Recording – Reaching Our Diamonds in the Rough: Seeing beyond the behaviour

Click here to view the transcription of this webinar.

Click here to view and download the webinar slides.

About the webinar:

Through real-life stories and experiences, this presentation will cover the strategies and philosophies required to teach students who have been labelled formally and informally as behavioural. They can be the most challenging but most rewarding group to teach. Students who are considered behavioural can bring on anxiety and a quick burnout in educators.

As educators, we can become the catalyst that gives these often misunderstood students drive and belief in themselves. We can become the advocate that allows other educators to see them as they deserve to be seen; children with immense potential.

The goal for this presentation is to ultimately rejuvenate educators and to lower their apprehension about having a student with behavioural challenges in their classroom. To see them as not something to overcome but as an opportunity to make an immense difference in their lives, their family’s life and the society they will impact someday.

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Click here to view and download the handout for this presentation.

About the presenter:

Mariem Farag is a primary teacher and Special Education Specialist with the Toronto District School Board who has been involved in special education classrooms for 10 out of her 14 years of teaching. She has been assigned classrooms that were in crisis and turned those rooms into warm and safe places. Mariem has taught in the Home School Program and Intensive Support Programs (ISPs) for learning disabilities and mild intellectual disabilities. She has served as a Methods and Resource Teacher (MART) on her School Support Team for 4 years.

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