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When youth are placed away from home, they need to learn skills that will help them find success once they leave a structured program. Find out what skills they need and how to teach them! -
The Teaching Family Model utilizes two methods for teaching self-government concepts: a family meeting and a youth leadership position called the manager. See how they work.
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There are times when all children lose emotional control and become angry. The Intensive Teaching Procedure will help you calm the youth, stay calm yourself, and work through the issue in a systematic and effective way.
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All youth have problems, especially those who are placed away from their family. This problem solving method provides a format for problem-solving that guides the youth to a solution.
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Dont wait for a problem! Teach social skills to youth in a proactive way. Planned Teaching gives you an effective format for doing it!
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Learn two effective ways to address a youths behavior. Praise will increase the frequency of preferred behaviors and Teaching Interactions will decrease the unwanted behaviors. Try it!
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Why? is a frequent question asked by most youth. Tell them why by stating the potential benefits of engaging in positive behaviors.
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Instead of addressing every youth behavior, learn to teach skills to the youth. Skills are a set of preferred behaviors that can generalize to other settings or situations.
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Increase your effectiveness when teaching youth social skills by observing the youth closely and precisely describing his/her behaviors. The youth will be more receptive to your teaching.
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The Teaching Family Model has five teaching procedures to help youth learn new behaviors. Find out how each procedure is used and the steps to the interactions that help youth achieve success.
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Youth behaviors change only when the youth is motivated to learn new, productive behaviors. The motivation systems offer tools to help the youth achieve their goals.
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The Teaching Family Model values the direct care workers and sees them as professionals who have expertise in using the Teaching Family Model. As such, the Teaching Parents are held to high professional standards as outlined in this module.
