Professional learning for teachers using a family systems approach

Add-on resource for trained facilitators of the Confident Parent Course

The Confident Teacher Course helps teachers apply the Parent Hope principles in the classroom. Designed as a shorter adaptation of the Confident Parent Course, this resource allows trained facilitators to run a professional learning session with teachers, focusing on what is within a teacher’s control when responding to student behaviour and classroom challenges. This course is purchased and delivered by facilitators to support teachers in their school or education community.

Supporting Teachers with the Parent Hope Approach

Teachers today often feel pressure to manage increasing behavioural and emotional challenges in the classroom. When the focus remains on trying to change the child, teachers can become exhausted and reactive. 

The Parent Hope approach offers a different starting point. 

Using ideas from Bowen Family Systems Theory, teachers are encouraged to shift their focus toward: 

  • The direction of their own energy 
  • The clarity of their leadership and limits 
  • Their capacity to maintain a steady “I position” in the classroom


When teachers become clearer about their role and responsibility, students experience more consistent leadership and greater opportunity to develop independence. 

What Teachers Will Explore

This course adapts key material from the Confident Parent Course into a format suitable for professional learning with educators. 

Teachers will reflect on: 

  • Where is my energy directed in the classroom? 
  • How do I maintain a clear leadership position with students? 
  • How do I promote independence rather than over-functioning for students? 
  • What does steady, principle-based classroom leadership look like? 


Role-play examples and discussion prompts help teachers apply these ideas to everyday classroom situations. 

What’s Included

10 lessons | Approximately 1.5 hours of video material

  • Two-session professional learning course for teachers

  • Video teaching segments and role plays with primary and secondary aged students

  • Reflection pauses and discussion prompts

  • Younger child and adolescent classroom examples

Sign up

For trained facilitators of the Confident Parent Course, get 1 year of access of this resource for use within your school or education context.

Not a Facilitator Yet?

The Confident Teacher Course is designed to be delivered by a trained Confident Parent Course Facilitator.

If you’re interested in bringing this learning to your school or staff team but aren’t trained as a facilitator, you can either train as a facilitator yourself, or invite a trained facilitator to run the program for you.

What's included

Two-session professional learning course for teachers.

    1. 1. The Child as the Project

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. 2. Role Play (Younger Child)

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. 2. Role Play (Adolescent)

    4. 3. Facilitating Growth in Independence

      FREE PREVIEW

    5. 4. Pause & Reflect

    1. 1. Confident Teacher Leadership

    2. 2. Role Play (Younger Child)

    3. 2. Role Play (Adolescent)

    4. 3. Promoting Psychological Atonomy

    5. 4. Pause & Reflect

About this course

  • 10 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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