People who work with teenagers in college / school - what training do you actually want?

[NorthernGirlie]

I'm sick of shit CPD (questioning techniques from people who've only ever taught degree students when I'm teaching E3 Construction lads blah blah)

On our next college wide CPD day I'd like:

• First aid for knife / acid attacks
• De-escalation training
• Benefits advice for care leavers / those kicked out of home *Suicide awareness *Recognising gang culture *County Lines *Training on helping students deal with grief (especially the loss of young friends)

Because this is what teenss are dealing with and what makes our jobs hard. I'm going to suggest these - what have I missed?

ACE'S - How adverse childhood experiences shape us and your students
Riot Control
The long term effects of drink and drugs - mental and physical
Financial Literacy
Avoiding scams, phishing, issues of the virtual world and how to be digitally savvy
Birth Control and Sexual Health issues
Cooking, as too many will end up in housing with no idea how to cope
Life Skills generally

I would like all people who work with young people to have training on Speech, Language and Communication difficulties, how incredibly common they are, especially in students on the non-academic courses, and the ongoing impact.

We cover a lot of these subjects and more in our personal development which is contextualised depending on who you're teaching.

Prevent is a legal requirement but a lot of our conversations around this include Andrew Tate and toxic masculinity.

Drug and alcohol abuse.

Contracts for work - employee rights etc.

Modern day slavery - signs of this in the workplace.

Sexual harassment.

Budgeting, quoting for work, taxes.

Mental health.

We're also running trauma informed workshops to support teachers with working with refugees.

How about supporting ASD and adhd

First aid should be an essential for everyone working with children and young people. Our school trains every member of staff who is pupil facing.
Deescalation training would be useful
Recognising gang culture and county lines should be included in your safeguarding training?
Financial literacy should be taught in schools in my opinion, but it's a rarity.
I also think that teacher training should include further training on working with children with SEND. I recall a very short section on adapting lessons for those with SEND, but that was the extent in my entire training year!

Mostly just for my job as I work with autistic kids and wish I had.

Critical thinking.

The number of Staff working with young people who don’t know how to think critically is horrifying. no we shouldn’t accept everything put in front of us at face value. big one is unisex loos in school! Just some rudimentary thinking can show just how much of a bad idea this is. Especially for vulnerable kids. But no one did it.

epilepsy training. There’s some free online to access training for schools from epilepsy charities. Epilepsy can start at any age but it’s common in teens and the hormonal chaos of puberty can change seizure patterns even if it was well managed.

employment rights. I’ve meet too many young people taken advantage of by awful bosses and not knowing where to go for help.

We do have training but it's all so dry - computer packages mainly.

Many of our precious students have gone to prison for serious crimes. I've reported concerns to safeguarding for some of those prior to them being arrested. Our safeguarding team to a great job - but we rarely receive real updates on local issues.

Yes to refugee awareness. Lots of our students call into this category

Teaching staff don't do first aid training as standard (there are courses - always non teaching staff because they can be called upon when necessary but we can't)

We have also done bits and pieces of the above but I think like in all education settings: it's no use unless it's shared. There is little point in one staff member only on a team being a teen expert and no one else.

All staff should have deescalation training and ACE training, mandatory.

All staff should get the basics in all sen what they are, what it means and what we should not say.

All staff should be reminded or taught that following the above on sen is the law. It's not optional, it's not down to personal preference, it's the law.

All staff should get motivational training because once we can crack that, we can reach more students.

All staff should be made to log into chat gpt to see what it can do for the good and the bad.

All staff need to be aligned.