View Event: Social Cognition Virtual Workshop featuring Kari Dunn Buron

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Event Description

Social Cognition - A half-day, virtual workshop on How to Teach, What to Teach and How to Create Your Own Resource Library

Note: This training will be followed up with a series of mini-trainings targeting specific levels and needs of students

Keynote speaker, Kari Dunn Buron (author of The Incredible 5-Point Scale) will present:

The Neuroscience of Social Cognition and Emotional Regulation and What That Can Teach Us About How to Teach Social Information.

Learning Outcomes:

Learners will be able to defend the use of a 5-point scale and similar systems to teach social and emotional information.
Learners will be able to name the 7 core skill areas needed to effectively manage one's own emotions.
Learners will be able to describe a highly-systemized learning style.
Learners will be able to list 5 skills in the area of social and emotional development and create a 5-point scale that could be used to teach those skills.

SOESD staff will present:

Using Gender-Inclusive Language and a Neurodivergent-Friendly Approach When Teaching Social Concepts

Agenda:
8:30 to 10:30: Keynote speaker Kari Dunn Buron on The Neuroscience of Social Cognition and Emotional Regulation and What That Can Teach Us About How to Teach Social Information
10:30-10:40: Break
10:40-11:20: Amy Szeliga, SOESD Autism Consultant, on Using Gender-Inclusive Language and a Neurodivergent-Friendly Approach When Teaching Social Concepts
11:20-12:00: SOESD Autism Consultants: Rowan Hill-Walko, Darci Mason, and Lauren Stewart on An Introduction to the Future Training Topics of “How to Create a Social Cognition Library” and “Written Goals and Lesson Plans to Support SEL in Your School”

Future Mini-Trainings will include:

How to Create a Social Cognition Library
Written Goals and Lesson Plans to Support SEL in Your School

About the keynote, Kari Dunn Buron, MS, Autism Education Specialist
Kari taught in the K-12 public school system with students on the autism spectrum for 30+ years and was a founding member of the MN Dept of Education’s Autism Project. Kari developed an Autism Spectrum Disorders Certificate program for educators in the Education Graduate School at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN and sits on the Advisory Board for the Autism Society of Trinidad and Tobago and for the Autism Society of MN. In 2003, Kari received a Self-designed Fellowship that allowed her to spend a year interviewing and working internationally with a number of scientists and researchers in the area of Neuroscience, Social Cognition, Education and Autism with a focus on challenging behaviors.

Kari is the co-author of The Incredible 5-Point Scale (Revised Edition-Revised) and Social Context and Self-Management. She is the author of When My Worries Get Too Big, (Revised Edition and winner of the 2013 Mom’s Choice Award), Adalyn’s Clare, A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control and A 5 is Against the Law! (2008 ASA literary award winner). Kari is also the co-editor of a textbook for educators titled Learners on the Autism Spectrum: Preparing Highly Qualified Educators (2009 ASA literary award winner) and the author of The Social Times Curriculum.

Kari has done volunteer work related to autism in Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Nepal. She has presented her work internationally and in 2012, Kari was inducted into the Illinois State University Department of Education Hall of Fame.

Purchase books and materials here: www.5pointscale.com

Location

ZOOM

Site

Curricular Group

Interdisciplinary

Fee

Free

Contact Information

Dawn Stephens
541-776-8590 x3119
dawn_stephens@soesd.k12.or.us

Session Information

Start: Friday September 30th, 2022 at 08:30 am
End: Friday September 30th, 2022 at 12:00 pm
PDUs: 3.50

Social Cognition Virtual Workshop featuring Kari Dunn Buron