Getting It Right in the Classroom!


Understanding and Responding

to

Children's Behavior



Staff Development Series

for

Child Care, Preschool, & School-Age Child Care Professionals



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Getting It Right in the Classroom!

Understanding and Responding to Children's Behavior

Staff Development Series

As fellow educators, we are sure that you have experienced instances in your early childhood or school-age program where a teacher or caregiver observed what seemingly looked like a group of children learning or playing together that quickly morphed into out-of-control behavior that completely disrupted the entire classroom. The episode, without a doubt, required significant time and effort for the teacher or caregiver to calm the situation, get the child or children back on task, and report the incident to parents. Perhaps with additional training, that staff person could have spent that valuable time teaching and working with children instead of solving a possibly preventable behavioral outburst.

The Getting It Right in the Classroom! Understanding and Responding to Children's Behavior staff development series is designed to help child care, preschool, and school-age child care professionals minimize or avoid those types of incidents.

This workshop series includes three of The Learningtree Network’s most popular staff development workshops, including Using Appropriate Consequences to Improve Behavior, Managing Challenging Behaviors in Children, and "Meltdown" Management.

The combination of these workshops provides child care, preschool, and school-age child care professionals with a comprehensive and inexpensive set of resources for understanding the nature of children's behavior and the best methods for responding to that behavior. Skills and techniques teachers and caregivers can use to establish a more responsive, more easily managed, and positive learning environment.

All teachers and child care professionals have experienced children who become distracted, get off-task, and become engaged in various inappropriate behaviors. It’s an almost everyday occurrence. Unfortunately, as we all know, some of these behaviors escalate into unpleasant, stressful, and frustrating classroom outbursts that harm student self-image, learning, and achievement, as well as teacher morale and classroom effectiveness.

Many times, it’s how teachers and caregivers react or respond to these off-task or inappropriate behaviors that determine whether they are resolved uneventfully or evolve and escalate further into a challenging behavior that is disruptive to the entire classroom or program. And it doesn't matter whether they are caring for a toddler, teaching a preschooler or kindergarten child, or working with a student in an after-school program. These types of behaviors occur in all programs.

It is the "how" of that caregiver's or teacher's response that can either be the soothing and calming touch that redirects a child or group of children or the catalyst or “flashpoint” for a more serious and challenging escalation of the child's or group's behavior. And that "how" is a skill that must be regularly learned and refined by child care and educational professionals.

The need for this type of training led The Learningtree Network to develop this special staff development series. A series of staff development workshops that provide child care, preschool, and school-age child care professionals with a wide variety of skills, strategies, and techniques to reduce the incidence of untimely and disruptive classroom behaviors significantly.

The Learningtree Network hopes that you take advantage of this unique opportunity to provide your child care and preschool staff with this valuable, inexpensive, and highly informative staff development resource.


Staff Development Series

Workshop Course Curriculum


Worksop Lessons

Lesson 1: Challenging Behavior and Young Children

Lesson 2: Developmentally Appropriate Behavior & Young Children

Lesson 3: Common Causes for Disruptive & Challenging Behavior

Lesson 4: Preventing & Responding to Challenging Behavior


Workshop Lessons

Lesson 1: Tantrums and "Meltdowns"

Lesson 2: Why Do Tantrums and "Meltdowns" Occur?

Lesson 3: Handling a "Meltdown"

Lesson 4: Preventing Tantrums & "Meltdowns"

Lesson 5.1: Special Needs Children & "Meltdowns": Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Lesson 5.2: Special Needs Children & "Meltdowns": Anxiety Disorders and Asperger Syndrome


Workshop Lessons

Lesson 1: Why Punishment Doesn't Work

Lesson 2: The Basics of Consequences

Lesson 3: Designing & Using Logical Consequences

Lesson 4: Techniques & Strategies for Using Consequences Effectively in the Classroom


Your Instructor


Richard G. Jadico
Richard G. Jadico

Mr. Jadico, the founder and CEO of The Learningtree Network, Inc., and lead developer and instructor of the Understanding and Responding to Children’s Behavior staff development series, as well as other Learningtree Network online workshops, is a life-long educator and child care professional with over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience in early childhood, elementary, and adult education as well as school-age child care.

With over thirty years experience as a teacher and administrator in the Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Mr. Jadico and his wife founded DVCCA, Inc. and its family of KidsCare, Kindergarten-Plus, and KidsCamp school-age child care programs which provided after-school, before-school, school holiday, kindergarten, and summer school-age child care services to thousands of elementary-aged children in school districts throughout Bucks County, Pennsylvania for over 22 years.

Mr. Jadico has designed and provided staff development and teacher training workshops to thousands of child care professionals in Pennsylvania and throughout the northeastern part of the United States. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children and its local state affiliates, the Association for Early Learning, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the National After-School Association.

He is a member of the National Fire Prevention Association and a certified Community Safety Instructor (National Fire Academy), as well as a Standardized Professional Development Instructor for the Pennsylvania "Keys to Quality" (Pennsylvania’s early childhood source for professional development), a Master Instructor for the New Jersey Workforce Registry (New Jersey's source for early child care and education professional development), a registered Trainer in the New York Aspire Registry for child care professional development, an approved Trainer for the Massachusetts Early Education and Care system, and an approved Instructor for the Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association (OCCRRA).


Frequently Asked Questions


Once I purchase my program's workshop seats, how does my staff register for a workshop?
Once The Learningtree Network receives notification of your organization's "Workshop Group Registration Package" registration, it will be processed and an email with an enrollment code and directions for your staff to use to register for the workshop(s) of their choice will be forwarded to you. This enrollment code should be used by your staff and entered into the “Discount Coupon” box included on the payment page during their enrollment process. Entering this code will allow your staff to enroll at no charge. Please be sure to safeguard this code since it is specific to your organization.
How long are "unused" workshop seats valid?
"Unused" workshop seats are valid for two years after the date of purchase.
Once I complete a workshop, can I re-enter and review the workshop at a later date?
All workshops offered by The Learningtree Network are available 24 hours a day. There are no time limits for completing a workshop, and once a workshop participant has successfully completed a workshop, the participant can re-enter the workshop at any time to review concepts, strategies, and techniques taught in the workshop.
Once I complete a workshop, how do I receive my "Certificate of Attendance"?
A workshop "Certificate of Attendance" will automatically become available for downloading and printing once a participant has successfully completed a workshop. To successfully complete a workshop, a participant must complete each lesson and successfully pass all lesson tests.


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