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There are also specialized Guidelines for Teachers to build connection and support students in a virtual classroom environment. Many of these materials are useful to both parents and teachers.

Also please see the Managing Pandemic Stress Toolkit to support caregivers, educators and healthcare providers, or anyone experiencing unprecedented stress during the corona virus pandemic.

There are also guides and tools to help you Prepare Yourself for the Return to School in the Fall. Including support for trauma-impacted children.

Support Children Who Are Home

Modules I-VIII are guidelines to help parents support their children while they are home from school during corona virus (Covid 19). Each module is a different component of support, because you may want to provide this information in smaller organized pieces. Modules are grouped, so please be sure to scroll through longer documents.

Module I:  Structure Through Schedules and Routines
Module II:  Attunement, Increasing the Quality of Adult Attention
Module III: Quiet Time, Solitary Time, Restore and Reset
Module IV: Promoting Positive Actions and Positive Emotions
Module V: Expressing Gratitude and Appreciation
Module VI: Information Control for Children
Module VII: Supportive Communication (Part 1)
Module VIII: Supportive Communication (Part 2)
Related Materials and Links (All Modules)

Please also see: Additional Related Materials/Links for Modules I-VIII

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Materials to support teachers managing virtual classrooms:

Promoting Engagement in a Virtual Classroom
Achieving Social Connectedness While Physically Distant: The Appreciation Journal
Building on Your Student Relationships:  Staying Attuned in a Virtual Classroom
Building on Your Student Relationships: Recognition and Reward
Related Materials for Teachers (All Articles, Guidelines/Links)
Engaging Less Motivated Students: A Checklist of Intervention Options for Virtual Classrooms
Student Performance During Distance Learning – Rating Form

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The Pandemic Stress Management Toolkit for caregivers, educators and healthcare providers.

Stress during this pandemic is like no other stress we’ve experienced before, which is why large numbers of educators and service providers are breaking down and experiencing uncontrolled stress responses. Many of our normal and automatic means of coping are inadequate for this increased demand. We need to be more deliberate in our efforts to reset the stress response ourselves. The following toolkit gives specific instruction to support individuals to interrupt the stress response and reset their brains and bodies.

Go to: Prepare for Your Return to School

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It is common, at the end of the school day, for the teacher to write a note home to parents of selected students to report on the students’ performance during the school day. These notes are narrative, anecdotal accounts. Please also see 2019 article Teacher Guidelines for Parent Feedback (transitioning to numerical rating system)

See also: Episode Data – a Rating Form • Intensity of Behavior • Student Performance During Distance Learning

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Check charts are probably the most familiar behavior management tool to school staff and parents. In response to disruptive behavior, poor work habits, lack of independence and responsibility, inattentiveness, failure to follow the rules, social violations, and many other common childhood problems, teachers and parents have been told to set up a chart…

See Also:
The Green Zone: Basic Guidelines and Reminders for Staff
The Green Zone: Quick Guidelines 
The Green Zone: Performance Rating
For Parents: Understanding the Daily Green Zone Ratings
Why Visual?

Direct document link: Green Zone

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We must give serious thought to the stress and the emotional impact that working under pandemic conditions has created for educators, because they will be returning to the school buildings in the fall and the job cannot be done well by people who are worn out, burdened by stress, scarred by trauma and filled with feelings of guilt, regret and inadequacy.

The pandemic experience has already had a profound effect on educators personally, professionally and emotionally. What can we do right now…

Introduction: Prepare Yourself for Your Return to School
Teachers of the Pandemic
Reflection on the Pandemic
Understand the Adverse Impact
Mitigate the Adverse Impact
Helping Students Feel More Secure
Supporting Trauma-Impacted Students Returning to School
Pandemic Trauma in Students Returning to School Buildings

Related Reference Materials

Please also see: Supporting Our Children and Ourselves During A Stressful Time.

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Related Articles:  Reset Break  Settling Routine  Leisure Break  Settled Scales  Stress Feedback
Please also see:  Taking a Break Comprehension Guide (2019)

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Teacher approval is a powerful therapeutic device; it can be a source of inspiration, a reason to come through the door in the morning and do your best.  Forming close, trusting, caring relationships with troubled students is challenging…

direct link: Important things to remember about relationships

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The BBTIPC Proficiency Scale is used to measure staff competency within and across all fourteen elements and complementary areas. Effective intervention teams will have people with a broad range of expertise across several of these areas. The proficiency scale is used to show who has expertise in specific areas, where proficiency within the team could use more growth, and it can also be used to measure changes in proficiency within and across teams following proficiency development efforts. For more on proficiency development, see the section later in this document, BBTIPC Proficiency Development: Learning Experiences and Activities. 

Please also see: The Level of Community Within Your Therapeutic Team

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Introductory Article
Race To The Finish Independence And Work Habits Program
“I Can Do It” Independence Program
Match The Pace Independence And Work Habits Program
Routine Card Independence Program
Visual Systems to Increase Motivation

Self-Control Programs

• Borrowing Things Without Asking And Failing To Return Them
• Emotional Outbursts When Confronted Or Corrected

Tolerance Extending Contingency Programs

• First/Then
• Work Card
• Progress Meter
• Tolerance Meter
• Calendar Support Visual

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