Understanding and Responding
to
Children's Behavior
A Special Workshop Series
for
Family & Group Child Care Home Providers
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Understanding and Responding to Children's Behavior
Staff Development Series
As fellow child care providers, we are sure that you have experienced instances in your child care home where you observed what seemingly looked like a child or small group of children playing nicely that suddenly morphed into out-of-control behavior. The episode, without a doubt, required a lot of effort to calm the situation and get the child or children back on task. Perhaps with additional strategies and techniques, you could have noticed clues of the impending behavior, redirected the child or children, and spent that valuable time teaching and working with your children instead of solving a possibly preventable behavioral outburst.
The Understanding and Responding to Children's Behavior staff development series is designed to help 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 Managing Challenging Behaviors in Children, Using Appropriate Consequences to Improve Behavior, and "Meltdown" Management.
The combination of these workshops provides you, as a family or group child care home provider, with a comprehensive and inexpensive set of resources for better understanding the nature of children's behavior and the best methods for responding to that behavior. Skills and techniques you can use to establish a more easily managed and positive child care home and learning environment.
Children becoming distracted, getting off-task, and becoming engaged in various inappropriate behaviors are an almost everyday occurrence in today's child care or school classrooms. Unfortunately, as we all know, some of these behaviors escalate into unpleasant, stressful, and frustrating outbursts that can be difficult to handle, and harm student self-image, learning, and achievement.
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. 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.
Importantly, 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 and preschool professionals with a wide variety of skills, strategies, and techniques to reduce the incidence of untimely and disruptive behaviors significantly.
In closing, The Learningtree Network hopes that you take advantage of this unique opportunity to provide you 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
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).
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