Professional Development Evaluation Results

Dr. Laura Riffel: “Positive Interventions and Effective Strategies”

June 10, 2016 at the University of Memphis-Main Campus

Content Area / Overall Score (out of 5)
Overall content / 4.9
Presentation skills of the facilitator(s) / 4.9
Legible and appropriate handouts/PPT / 4.95
Usefulness of meeting to my job/role / 4.9
Overall quality / 4.9

Comments

Most helpful information of the day:

  • The real practicality of the interventions presented and the ease of implementation
  • Interventions for ADHD students
  • Fidget tools
  • Fitbit.com
  • Trigger/Target/Impact
  • Return on Investments= Reinforcement rooms vs. ISS
  • Non-medicated interventions for students with ADHD
  • Real life example, visuals, stories, great training and FREE
  • Wonderful ideas
  • Actual artifacts/products to view instead of just mentioning them
  • The different techniques that can be implemented in order to reinforce good behavior
  • Fiddles are tools
  • Ideas for interventions that can help with those ADHD students who are not medicated
  • The positive effects that our adults can have on individual student’s success/decreasing drop-out rates
  • The practical information and stories were most helpful.
  • Proprioceptive items/input
  • Donoschoose.org info/practical applications for behavior
  • Resources, ideas to help students w/ADHD, etc.
  • Hierarchy of interventions
  • T.U.M.S. and the practical tools Laura gave.
  • Ten things you should know about behavior
  • The website to access all of your resources will be the most helpful.
  • How to target the behavior not the child
  • T.U.M.S.
  • Donors Choose
  • Intervention ideas and use tools to assist students
  • Research tidbits, equal choices, T.U.M.S.
  • Informative
  • Fantastic ideas
  • Equal choices, blurters, and positive bead lanyards
  • All the tools, website information and free ideas
  • Hands on interventions/stories/videos
  • Being mindful of behavior specific praise
  • What gets measured gets done
  • The positive side of behavior management and facts about fidgets/resource guides
  • RO1 information
  • T.U.M.S.
  • The use of sensory tools
  • The T.U.M.S. part of the presentation
  • Ten rules, right side, positive words per hour, vibrating watches
  • She gave so many. Not one stands out. Ex: T.U.M.S., how to greet students daily, beads activity
  • Awareness; where there is a will there is a way (several ways)
  • Advice on dealing with targets!
  • Differences between boys and girls
  • All information was helpful. The examples of things we could use in the classroom were very helpful
  • Thank you. Loads of great ideas
  • Even though I don’t teach, it was an excellent presentation for behavioral issues we deal with on a daily basis. So glad I was able to attend
  • Hands on tools such as rocket pencils
  • Behavior strategies for those to focus (T.U.M.S.)
  • T.U.M.S. and Trigger-Target-Impact
  • The 10 rules of behavior
  • Everyone can learn something
  • Understanding how to deal with a variety of issues with ADHD
  • Research backed best practices; T.U.M.S.; behavior specific praise, speak into child’s right ear; offer 2 equal choices
  • Fidget tools
  • Examples of materials/extended amounts of websites
  • Appreciate having information I can use immediately
  • The most helpful information I learned today is the rules of behavior
  • Will share info and many of the great interventions and strategies with teachers and staff!
  • Very practical and useful info
  • Websites
  • All information was helpful
  • Specific praise
  • Butt cushions were an awesome idea!
  • The specific interventions/ the electronic resources
  • Actual skills to implement

Other Comments:

  • Great training with useful information
  • Great presentation-kept my interest all day! Could use a bit more skills for high schoolers
  • Thank you soo much!
  • Wonderful training! Very enjoyable and informative
  • Excellent meeting, Thank you!
  • Great information
  • Very good session
  • Thank you for exhibiting that hard work pays off when we care for our students
  • I can’t wait to review all the tools you have posted on line!
  • Thank you for your thoughts and actions
  • This workshop was exceptional. Great information
  • Would love to know how to test for ADHD etc.
  • Great job!
  • Great info
  • Wonderful!
  • Life saver; will implement in small steps. I will keep it up. I will let you know the results.
  • Very useful information
  • She was superb. Glad I came. I wish I had had this training when I had a particular student who come to mind I taught in 3rd grade.
  • Usefulness of disciplining data
  • Giving information according to R brain-L brain processing
  • Information on conferences (PBIS)
  • Thank you! I’m looking forward to using your website!
  • The presentation was such an enjoyable and hands on experience. Dr. Riffel is a phenomenal and knowledgeable professional.
  • Fabulous!! Thank you for bringing this to us.
  • It was an eye opener for me.
  • Anxious to try using this information at my school
  • Dr. Riffel was very engaging.
  • Enjoyed that Dr. Riffel was able to show how the methods would look for all grade levels (Elem, Secondary and High)
  • Enjoyed her stories
  • Great training
  • You should talk to Shelby County Schools about running some PD days for all teachers
  • Awesome seminar!
  • Loved the workshop
  • Very informative! I plan to take it all back to my school!!
  • Excellent
  • I love the access to the power points and resources. Also, it is great that they encourage us to take this info back to our schools

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