What is Team Teach training?

Team Teach is award-winning ‘positive handling’ training which helps staff support people with challenging behaviour. Staff teams that work with students with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties or Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues would benefit immensely from Team Teach. It teaches a range of de-escalation and positive handling techniques which promote positive relationships in schools.

Team Teach training techniques and strategies

The training helps attendees reduce stress, increase security in the classroom and boost staff morale in the workplace. Confidence is key when supporting EBD (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties) or SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health) students and Team Teach training can give you the tools to approach these with assurance.

You will learn with Team Teach training how to:

– Promote the least intrusive positive handling strategy

– Understand how to exhaust all verbal and non-verbal de-escalation strategies before positive handling strategies are used

– Ensure you can respond to disruptive, disturbing or aggressive behaviours in a way that maintains a supportive and respective relationship

– Reduce the number of serious incidents involving physical controls by exhausting behaviour management strategies

– Increase staff awareness concerning the importance of recording, reporting, monitoring and evaluating every incident which involves positive handling

– Ensure a process of repair and reflection is in place for both staff and children

Who can benefit from Team Teach training?

• Schools

• Teachers

• HLTA, TA and LSA

• Specialist staff

• Anyone transitioning from mainstream to SEN

• Anyone who is supporting a person with social, emotional, communication or other difficulties

How can you get involved with Team Teach training?

Our Team Teach trainers are:

• Alison Twomey – Advanced TT trainer
• Sara Muršić – Intermediate TT trainer
• Emily Tobin – Intermediate TT trainer
• Ryan Mason – Intermediate TT trainer
• Matthew Lyons – Intermediate TT trainer
• Richard Hodgson – Intermediate TT trainer
• Lorna Sell – Intermediate TT trainer
• Maria O’Neill – Intermediate TT trainer

The courses we offer include of a mixture of theory and practical elements – course participants will be required to get involved in physical activities, including restraints. Everyone’s health and safety is our top priority. All participants will receive detailed safety information before the training. If you’re interested in discussing Team Teach further, contact our Autism Research and Development Office.

Sara Muršić
Head of Autism Research and Development

Book a meeting: https://calendly.com/sara-mursic

E: sara.mursic@abbotsleaschool.co.uk

T: 01514281161

M: 07903185704