What’s available in October

In this webinar, Corria explains how transitioning from one activity to another is an Executive Function, and a demand in itself.

The workshop will outline how every transition is loaded with demands.

Corrina will look at how we can break down transitions and reduce the number of demands, from getting up in the morning to coming off the Xbox!

Her workshop will help you understand and manage transitions better.

In this session Rob looks at one small sentence that sits underneath a surprising amount of family stress: "but I already told you that." We expect our children to hold on to instructions, routines, rules and skills after being shown a couple times, and when they do not, we read it as defiance or as not listening. What we know about memory says something quite different, which is that forgetting is the normal, expected behaviour of a human brain, and that all of us need reminders and repetition to hold on to anything.

Rob talks honestly about his own path from a by the book classroom teacher who used reward charts, detentions and traffic light displays, to a dad whose daughter screwed her reward chart up and threw it in the bin, and about what changed at home and in his lessons once he stopped expecting recall and started building the reminders in instead. He shares the ripple effect that letting go of those expectations had across the whole family, including on the adults, and finishes with three things to try in the week that follows.

Practical throughout, with plenty of room for questions. For parents, carers and professionals.

Rob Wakeling is a maths teacher of over twenty years, a tutor, the founder of Bow Tie Maths, and a dad to two young people whose PDA reshaped how he parents and how he teaches.

 

Rob and Nicci Wakeling are parents to two children they unschooled - following each child's own interests rather than an imposed curriculum. Their daughter is a PDAer, and that experience reshaped how the whole family thinks about demand, trust and learning.

 

When their children chose to return to mainstream education, the skills were already there: one child went back at eleven with a reading age of seventeen, and the other’s self-built creative portfolio won them a college place in textiles.

 

Rob is a maths tutor and the founder of Bow Tie Maths http://bowtieteacher.co.uk , a low-demand, self-paced GCSE and IGCSE maths app now used by several PDA and neurodivergent learners.

 

Together they bring the parent's instinct and the professional's practice to the same problem.