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Courses
POPARD offers a number of introductory to advanced level courses delivered by our highly skilled team. Currently, courses are being offered virtually. When in-person courses are offered they are held at the POPARD training centre in Delta, BC. We sometimes provide in-person courses in school districts, but these are pre-arranged through the POPARD training coordinator and the district partner.
Introduction to ASD
In this 30–hour introductory course, we cover current research in ASD and evidence-based teaching strategies. This course is suitable for teachers, paraprofessionals, and other educational staff.
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Introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis
In this 30–hour course, we cover current research and evidence-based ABA techniques in educational settings. We begin with a brief review of Autism Spectrum Disorders. This course is offered to teachers, paraprofessionals, and other educational staff.
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Supporting students with ASD in your classroom
This 12-week online course is offered in a flexible format to meet the needs of working teachers. The course consists of a combination of interactive on-demand sessions (completed within a participant’s own schedule) and live online sessions (at scheduled times in a virtual classroom facilitated by an instructor).
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Virtual Flexible ASD Course
The ASD virtual FLEXible course covers the same content as the in-person ASD course but is offered over a 7-week period for maximum flexibility. Participants are given ample time to learn and work with the concepts through a combination of pre-recorded modules, 90-minute Live Zoom sessions scheduled twice a week, and optional weekly small group virtual tutorials. This course is suitable for teachers, paraprofessionals, and other educational staff.
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Severe and Moderate Intellectual Disabilities
This 40-hour course is designed specifically for resource teachers and classroom teachers who work with students (k-12) with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. It will prepare participants to plan and implement meaningful and effective programmes for these students. Participants will become familiar with the foundational principles and current research that guide this work.
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POPARD offers a number of Super Workshops delivered by our highly skilled team. Currently, Super Workshops are offered virtually. When in-person Super Workshops are offered they are held at the POPARD training centre in Delta, BC. We sometimes provide in-person Super Workshops in school districts, but these are pre-arranged through the POPARD training coordinator and the district partner.
Introduction to Social Skills Intervention
Drawing on social motivation theory, this 2-day interactive super-workshop will prepare you to: identify a child's communication stage, interpret assessment results, write measurable goals based on these results, create social skills interventions, devise a plan for monitoring progress, and much more!
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Understanding Challenging Behaviour
This 2-day interactive super-workshop will prepare you to answer many important questions: Why does challenging behaviour occur? What can I do to limit the likelihood of challenging behaviour? By the end of this workshop, participants will be equipped to reduce challenging behaviour in the classroom.
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Self-Regulation SWS
In this 2-day interactive super-workshop, participants will: recognize how common challenges associated with ASD impact self-regulation, become familiar with the 5 Domain Model of self-regulation, apply evidence-based self-regulation strategies as they analyze case studies, create a planning tool and design goals for their students, and much more!
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Communication: Supporting Minimally Verbal Students
This is a 2-day interactive workshop. By the end of the workshop, participants will feel prepared to support communication skills in the areas of interaction, expression, and understanding in individuals along the spectrum, and much more!
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INCREASING STUDENT COOPERATION SWS
This 2-day introductory super-workshop will introduce you to a variety of strategies to increase student cooperation based on research including rapport building, preference assessments, and specific strategies for increasing student cooperation. Participants will walk away having learned how to find and use reinforcers to build rapport and create a plan for students who engage in challenging behaviour when given instructions.
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Functional Skills SWS
This 2-day engaging super-workshop will prepare you to answer questions such as: How do I decide what functional skills my student should be learning? What are evidence-based teaching strategies to teach my student functional skills? What is Behavioural Skills Training (BST)? During this workshop, participants will have hands-on opportunities to practice implementing strategies to assess, plan, and teach functional skills and will be equipped with tools and resources that can be used in the real world.
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Reading & ASD SWS
Learning to read and becoming an engaged reader is an essential life skill that can lead to higher success in life. Reading instruction can be especially challenging for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). How do I teach reading if my student is not interested? How can I support reading comprehension development? What if my student is minimally verbal? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this 2-day introductory workshop.
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Reconstructing the Classroom: Using Principles of Structured Teaching
In this course, we will cover how components of structured teaching might be applied to meet the educational needs of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Planning for Inclusion of all Students
Within this workshop, educators will be introduced to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to plan for inclusive, meaningful education for every student, focusing on students with special needs.
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POPARD offers a number of 1 Day Workshops delivered by our highly skilled team. Currently, 1 Day Workshops are offered as live, online training sessions through POPARD.
Strategies For Coaching Families In Remote Learning
Understanding and managing challenging behaviour is an important area of focus for those who support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This one-day workshop will provide an overview of fundamental aspects of understanding behaviour, as well as basic strategies for preventing, responding to, and teaching replacements to challenging behaviour. An emphasis will be placed on behavioural strategies most applicable to remote-learning situations. Given the role of families in remote-learning, time will be spent addressing ways that school teams can support families via remote coaching. By the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with basic behavioural principles and behaviour management strategies and will have a framework for coaching and providing support to families remotely.
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POPARD offers a number of ½ Day Workshops delivered by our highly skilled team. Currently, ½ Day Workshops are offered as live, online training sessions through POPARD.
Other Professional Development
In addition to courses and Super Workshops, POPARD provides educational teams with customized professional development to build capacity in working with students with autism. We have accommodated requests for mentoring, implementation training, customized workshops, support training in IEP development and safety planning, and in specialized program planning. We are open to tailoring professional development offerings to meet your school team or district needs.
