Team Teach About Us
For over 25 years, Team Teach has been a pioneer in behaviour support training across Education, Disability and all Human Services.
Our mission is to support individuals and organisations in moving beyond behaviour management; using strategies that lower risk, build relationships, minimise physical intervention, and create positive environments.
Team Teach has developed strategies to move beyond behaviour management.
These strategies promote team building, personal safety, communication, and verbal and non-verbal de-escalation techniques. These techniques support behaviours, reducing risk and minimising the need for physical restrictive practices.
We believe that understanding behaviour triggers and recognising all behaviour as a form of communication is key, and in some settings, where appropriate, offer safe, respectful and minimal physical restrictive practices intervention skills as a last resort, with an emphasis on de-escalation strategies being 95% of our focus.
A whole-setting approach to behaviour support
We see this as just one part of a whole-setting approach to behaviour support and help services develop acceptable, appropriate, authorised responses to distressed and dysregulated behaviours. These responses maintain positive relationships and ensure safety for all. As such, our framework is entirely compatible with Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) approaches for people with a disability and Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL, PB4L, and UBRS) in education services.
Additionally, all training emphasizes the importance of recording, reporting, monitoring, and evaluating of all incidents.
Our Accreditations & Support
Since 1997, we have taken immense pride in equipping over 300,000 individuals and 13,000 organisations across 28 countries with the necessary tools to transform the lives of the children, young people and adults they support and work with.
Our courses keep your staff up to date with guidance and legal changes, ensuring you receive the highest standards of training.
The Institute of Conflict Management
Team Teach is proud to hold the Institute of Conflict Management (ICM) Quality Award Centre certification, a nationally recognised accreditation for delivering training in the prevention and management of challenging behaviour.
As a not-for-profit, independent organisation, the ICM works to reduce and eliminate the risks associated with behaviour across all sectors. Our accredited Train-the-Trainer courses comply with ICM quality assurance procedures for the prevention, management, and support of vulnerable individuals in education, disability services, aged care, and healthcare settings.
All Team Teach physical techniques undergo a regular medical review carried out by independent medical experts, as required by the Institute of Conflict Management.
Inspection bodies and the Health & Safety Executive have also commented favourably in their reports on the positive impact that the Team Teach training framework has had when adopted by leadership, management and a whole-setting holistic approach.
CPD Certified
The course materials for our positive behaviour training programmes have been independently assessed and accredited by the CPD Accreditation Service.
Team Teach Training can often be used for Professional Development (PD) hours that are required to maintain professional status with relevant professional bodies. For some jurisdictions, this is recognised as accredited PD hours but where this is not the case it can still often be used for elective PD hours. Please check with your relevant professional body as to the whether Team Teach training hours can be recognised and how it can be recognised.
