Team-Teach Information

1. What is Team-Teach?

Team-Teach provides training to staff groups in education, social and health service settings in behaviour supports and interventions. There are 6 Principal and 12 Senior tutors delivering training through franchise agreements. Over 3,000 employers tutors deliver training to employees for whom their employer has a direct health and safety responsibility. They are able to deliver 6 and 12 hour courses, accounting between them for approximately 500,000 people in the U.K receiving training since 1997.

2. What are the Learning Objectives?

Following training improved performance would be demonstrated by course participants in:

recognising the importance of and using de-escalation techniques and working as a team when managing challenging behaviours.
applying an understanding of the legal implications of positively handling.
using a gradual and graded response to managing challenging behaviours and the use of positive handling as a last resort option by applying an increased awareness of the need for documentation for the recording and reporting of incidents.
using active listening skills and participating in a process of debriefing, repair and reflection.

3. What do you expect trainees to learn during the training?

The aim is to achieve knowledge, skill and understanding related to the following areas:

To understand and work within the key principles and values that underpin practice.
To develop a range of responses: non verbal, para-verbal and verbal de-escalating and calming strategies, including a Help Script & Help Protocol when faced with challenging behaviour.
To develop an understanding of causes and signs of aggression and conflict.
To improve staff self awareness and self control whilst managing difficult behaviour.
To understand the typical stages of crisis behaviours and appropriate staff responses.
To appreciate the importance of recording and reporting including risk assessment and behaviour management plans and the value of a process for monitoring and evaluating.
To develop a gradual and graded range of personal safety and positive handling techniques, including standing and seated responses.
To understand their involvement and entitlement to a post Incident support and de-briefing framework for all involved in serious incidents.

4. Who Supports & Accredits Team-Teach?

Team-Teach is accredited by British Institute of Learning Disabilities, received letters of support from the teacher unions: National Union of Teacher, National Association of Schoolmasters & Union of Women Teachers, is the preferred stated approach (See their respective web sites) of the Social Emotional Behavioural Difficulties Association and the National Association Head Teachers. Team-Teach courses are recognised by the National Control and Restraint General Services Association and have received favourable comments from Inspection Bodies such as Ofsted, Health & Safety Executive, Care Standards, etc.

5. How widely and in what service settings is the training framework being used?

Team-Teach training is used across a wide range of service settings, age ranges, local authorities & Health Care Trusts. As a training package with a core and modular training approach, it provides service settings with the flexibility to identify the relevant skills & strategies that reduce the particular risk within the service settings concerned. Presently, the training is being used in playgroups / nurseries, primary & secondary mainstream, children s homes & special schools of all types of described special need, including secure & psychiatric units, health care trusts & adult respite care settings.
Team-Teach Ltd was established in 1997, since this time it has become the largest provider within the U.K. Having trained over 2,000 tutors who between them have trained 400, 000 people in over 85 Local Authorities in the U.K. Team-Teach has been successful for the following reasons:

it is child centred
it is based on defined procedures and therefore offers a common language
it is not a power over techniques
it emphasises the need for documentation's: behaviour policy
handling policy
handling / care plans
use of IEP's
incident reports
emphasises the need for monitoring and evaluation
accessible to ALL staff
emphasis on protecting and promoting positive relationships
sets use of physical techniques within legal context
stresses need for follow up / learning to take place after physical intervention takes place
explains conflict spiral and the strong emphasis on de-escalation
compliments existing non physical behaviour interventions
states that physical intervention should not be used in 95% of conflict situations
protects staff by showing safe practises for both themselves and students
uses non pain techniques " emphasis on risk assessment
philosophy applicable to all establishments concerned with the care of young people
uses a holistic approach to behavioural management - physical only one of many tools available to us
emphasises need for staff to stay in control of their feelings
course good team builder and generates feeling of unity and awareness of each others strengths and limitations online.

To take a Team Teach course please see Team Teach Training

Feedback from the Axcis Team-Teach Training

Hi Susanna,

I just wanted to write to say thanks to you and Jon for the 'Team Teach' course last Thursday and Friday. The prospect of working with special needs children made me feel like I may just be out of my depth, but after the course I feel confident that I'll be able to handle any situation where a child is in, or approaching, a state of crisis.

I also have to say I enjoyed the ethos behind the content. I found it very positive and constructive, and that it rang true with the early childhood teaching techniques that I studied at university. The optimism of your and Jon's mentality toward teaching is often lacking in mainstream education, which is a shame. I also feel that the issues you dealt with such as the '6 stages of crisis' are applicable to all students, not just special needs kids. Sure, this would be on a much smaller level, but I feel they are stages all kids go through. It has given me some food for thought with regards to my instrumental teaching, so thank you.

Thanks again and I look forward to hearing from you soon regarding school placement in September.

Best regards,

Tom

Dear Susanna and John

Please can I thank you both for such a wonderful two days. I have learned so much from you both and also from the people that I met at the course. I feel much more confident in my approach to difficult situations. Your ability to share your knowledge in such an honest, succinct and humorous way acknowledged and underlined the care, dedication and love that you have for the children you work with and made me feel more and more assured that this is the work that I, also, love and want to continue. I look forward to future work and I thank you both for the inspiration you give to others to go further, to learn more and to improve the quality of care we are able to give to those who ask it of us.

Very best wishes.

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