Marie Delaney is an Educational Psychotherapist,teacher and teacher trainer. She has extensive experience of working with challenging behaviour-both staff and pupils! She has worked on outside school projects- at DYP, a mentoring and education programme in Hackney, London -as well as in schools as a learning support unit manager in Thurrock and then as learning mentor/LSU co-ordinator for primary and secondary schools in the London borough of Havering. She was also trainer and moderator on the National Training for Learning Mentors. She still works as Emotional Literacy Consultant at Bower Park School, Romford, Essex. She has trained teachers in the UK and overseas. She is Director of The Learning Harbour in Cork, Eire.

• Part One: The Teacher (Primary and Secondary)1.what these children do to us2.the way our emotions affect the management of relationships3.conscious and unconscious processes which affect readiness for teaching and learning4.developing skills and classroom strategies5.finding and using supportPart Two: The Child1.why some students are just more difficult to teach2.the effects of loss, separation, neglect and trauma on learning3.ways for a teacher to reach and teach these children

Marie Delaney is an Educational Psychotherapist,teacher and teacher trainer. She has extensive experience of working with challenging behaviour-both staff and pupils! She has worked on outside school projects- at DYP, a mentoring and education programme in Hackney, London -as well as in schools as a learning support unit manager in Thurrock and then as learning mentor/LSU co-ordinator for primary and secondary schools in the London borough of Havering. She was also trainer and moderator on the National Training for Learning Mentors. She still works as Emotional Literacy Consultant at Bower Park School, Romford, Essex. She has trained teachers in the UK and overseas. She is Director of The Learning Harbour in Cork, Eire.

• Part One: The Teacher (Primary and Secondary)1.what these children do to us2.the way our emotions affect the management of relationships3.conscious and unconscious processes which affect readiness for teaching and learning4.developing skills and classroom strategies5.finding and using supportPart Two: The Child1.why some students are just more difficult to teach2.the effects of loss, separation, neglect and trauma on learning3.ways for a teacher to reach and teach these children