Jo Anna Cary Lougin taught in general education and special education, specializing as a learning handicapped teacher, special day class teacher , Resource Specialist and a teacher of the emotionally disturbed in centers, elementary, middle and high schools. She served Oakland Unified in Special Education as a Program Specialist of grades K-12, Manager of Programs for Middle School Programs, and a Coordinator of Middle and High School Programs, Adaptive PE, Vocational Education, 18-22 Severely Handicapped Programs and the Mental Health Enriched Programs. Jo Anna also served as adjunct staff for Holy Names University, University of California at Sacramento, and University of San Francisco at Santa Rosa providing instruction to graduate students in special education credential programs and general education teachers on Introduction to Exceptional Children.

    Topics:
  1. Recognizing Symptoms of Behavior Disorders in general education classrooms.
    Focus: Looking in depth at behaviors that may be the cause of disruption in the classroom and the types of interventions a teacher can use to target change in a proactive manner.
  2. Interventions for Improving Behavior in the general or special education classrooms
    Focus: developing a bank of interventions that can be used in the general education and special education classrooms that helps all the students with behavior and supports the teacher without being labor intensive.
  3. Writing Effective Behavior Plans
    Focus: Writing Behavior plans for general education, SST, IEPs' and for Disciplinary Actions.
  4. My class is falling apart and It's His Fault-- How Do I work with ____?
    Focus: Regaining control of your classroom when working with ADD, ADHD, Conduct Disorders Defiant, OCD, BiPolar Children, ect. children that are members of my regular classroom.
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