Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to,
study in the warning signs within a developmental and
social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and
enhance learning; the integration of
social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular
curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.
A promising direction for future prevention
studies would be to test a combination of the elementary grade interventions used here with middle school
curricula that seek to promote norms against health - risk behaviors such as drug use and to
enhance life skills to resist health - compromising
social influences.3, 6,7,31