Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter
Keynote Presentation
"Behaviour Guidance Principles"
In this keynote address, Dr Louise Porter will compare and contrast two styles of discipline: controlling discipline (which uses rewards and punishments) and a guidance approach. Guidance believes that children do not need incentives to behave but instead behave well when they can. Like us, children want to be successful. Therefore, if they are making mistakes, it is because they lack skill – the main one of which is the ability to regulate their feelings and impulses. If we punished them for not know how to do this, we would be punishing them for being children. Instead, we need to teach children skills that allow them to behave considerately.
Workshop Sessions Two and Three
"Behaviour Guidance Practices"
This session will detail how to replace rewards such as praise with acknowledgment. This will not only help children’s behaviour will also safeguard their self-esteem Next, it will outline everyday alternatives to punishments, and how to support children to practise the emotional self-control that they need to act thoughtfully towards others.
Bio
Louise Porter, PhD, MA(Hons), MGiftedEd, DipEd, BA, BIntStuds
Child Psychologist
Dr Louise Porter is a child psychologist with over 35 years’ experience in private practice consulting with parents and practitioners about children’s developmental and social or emotional challenges. Alongside this private work, she was also employed for 10 years in disability and mainstream education settings and then lectured at Flinders University for 13 years in topics relating to early childhood, special and gifted education, and behaviour management. She has a particular interest in how adults can guide children’s behaviour, which was the subject of her doctorate. She has published widely, with her books on children’s behaviour being: Parental guidance recommended, Young children’s behaviour, A comprehensive guide to classroom management; plus a DVD Guiding children’s behaviour. (See www.louiseporter.com.au)
