Trainers

Dave Vizard:

Dave, an experienced teacher with over 30 years experience, provides training on Behaviour Management and Teaching and Learning to schools and colleges throughout the UK. For 13 years, as a Senior Manager and Head of Upper School, he has developed a range of initiatives relating to Positive Behaviour Management. For 2 years he has held a Local Authority Advisory Post for Behaviour Management.

Dave has lectured for 6 years on the Foundation degree course for Teaching Assistants at the University of Plymouth. He has also provided ‘train the trainer’ training for the Learning and Skills Development Agency  and has spoken at many National Conferences including those for National Association of Special Educational Needs (NASEN) and Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties Association (SEBDA). He is an affiliated Behaviour Management Consultant for Teach First and inputs to their National Conferences.

He has written extensively on Behaviour Management and has 15 books published to date. Two of his latest are ‘Meeting the Needs of Disaffected Students – Engaging Students with Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties’, and 'Behaviour Solutions: A Guide to Syndromes and Conditions'.

Dave is Chair of the National Association for School Teaching Assistants (NASTA) and Editor of their magazine – Supporting Learning.

Dave runs Behaviour Solutions, an Educational Consultancy which provides a practical and professional service in promoting positive behaviour management and looks to support schools and colleges in developing their own teaching and learning and behaviour management systems.

Fintan O’Regan:   Fintan is a former science teacher and was the Headmaster of the Centre Academy School from 1996 -2002.     He is currently a Behaviour and Learning Consultant and Trainer for a number of organisations both nationally and internationally. He is an associate lecturer for Leicester University, the National Association of Special Needs, Learning Works, the Institute of Education and the Education director of ADDISS.   He has written a number of published articles on the subject of Behaviour and Learning issues and he is the co-author of the T.E.S. award wining book Educating Children with ADHD (2000.)   Other publications include How to teach and Manage Children with ADHD (2001), Surviving and Succeeding in SEN and ADHD: Impact and Intervention: (both 2005), Troubleshooting Challenging behaviour and Challenging Behaviours (both 2006) and The Small Change: Big Difference series Inattention, Hyperactive and Disorganised (2008).