"Meltdown"
Management
Understanding, Managing, & Preventing
Temper Tantrums & "Meltdowns" in Children
Version 1.0
(1 1/2 Clock Hours/.15 CEUs)
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"Meltdown" Management
The “Meltdown” Management online workshop has been designed to provide child care and school-age child care professionals with a convenient, easy to access, and highly informative workshop focusing on better understanding the phenomenon of temper tantrums in children.
Almost every teacher and child care professional has been in this situation: A child is agitated and acting out, often screaming and entirely out of control, and completely disrupting the classroom. To calm the situation, the teacher needs to determine what caused the outburst to happen, try to soothe the child, and quickly de-escalate the situation to prevent it from getting worse. This workshop focuses on helping a teacher or child care professional to do just that.
Its goal is simple! To help all participants to become more knowledgeable, less apprehensive, and better prepared for responding to tantrum-type behavior that some child development specialists sometimes refer to as “thunderstorms or full-blown hurricanes” in children.
The workshop's primary focus is on increasing understanding and awareness about the causes or “triggers” of tantrums and full-blown meltdowns. Additionally, it reviews the changes in behavior that often precede tantrum-type behavior, various tactics that can be used for calming these behaviors, as well as strategies for reducing and preventing temper tantrums and meltdowns in toddlers, pre-school, and school-aged children.
The workshop is user-friendly, allowing the participant to complete the workshop at their own pace and based on their home and work schedules. There is no time limit for completing the workshop, and a participant can take as many online work sessions as needed to finish the course.
The Learningtree Network, Inc. and its instructors are an approved PA PQAS Trainer, approved Master Instructors, New Jersey Workforce Registry, registered trainers in the New York Aspire Registry for Child Care Professional Development, and Massachusetts Early Education and Care approved trainers. Additionally, all workshop instructors and developers are certified educators and child care professionals with extensive experience in the areas of child care and elementary education, as well as in staff training and professional development.
Participants taking the “Meltdown” Management online workshop receive a Certificate of Completion and one and one-half (1 1/2) clock hours of in-service training. The "Certificate of Completion" automatically becomes available for downloading upon a participant's successful completion of the workshop, and is also emailed to the participant by The Learningtree Network's learning platform.
Course Curriculum
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
Your Instructor
Mr. Jadico, the founder and CEO of The Learningtree Network, Inc., and lead developer and instructor of the "Meltdown" Management workshop, 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.
As a teacher and administrator in the Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, for thirty years, Mr. Jadico was also the founder of and administrator for the school district’s Central Bucks Community School which provided a comprehensive program of enrichment learning opportunities and programs for children and adults in the Central Bucks community. These programs included hundreds of evening enrichment and self-help courses, a Standard Evening High School that allowed adults to complete their high school diplomas, a Driver Education program for high school students, and an award winning school-age child care program, one of the first such programs in Bucks County.
In 1991, Mr. Jadico and his wife, Gail, founded DVCCA, Inc. and its family of KidsCare, KindergartenPlus, 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 hundreds of child care professionals in Southeastern Pennsylvania. 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).