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Using Appropriate Consequences to Improve Behavior

The Learningtree Network designed the Using Appropriate Consequences to Improve Behavior online workshop to provide child care and school-age child care professionals with a convenient, easy to access, and highly informative workshop. The workshop’s main focus is to help participants better understand the use of appropriate consequences to effectively persuade children to choose and engage in acceptable and appropriate behaviors in child care, early childhood, and elementary classrooms.

Every teacher and child care professional has experienced the stress, frustration, and difficulties in responding to children exhibiting inappropriate behavior, whether it be a toddler in our child care center, a preschooler or kindergarten child, or a student in our school-age child care program. In fact, for most teachers, it happens almost daily.

This workshop intends to help all participants to become more knowledgeable, more skilled, and better able to use consequences as an effective classroom management tool for managing their classroom, and minimizing and reducing incidences of inappropriate behavior in their classroom.

Workshop objectives focus on helping participants to become more aware about why punishment doesn’t work, develop a better understanding of the basics of natural and logical consequences, learn how to correctly design and use logical consequences as an effective classroom management tool, and learn specific strategies and techniques for imposing logical consequences in their classrooms.

The workshop is user-friendly, allowing the participant to complete the workshop at their own pace 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 successfully completing the Using Appropriate Consequences to Improve Behavior online workshop receive a Certificate of Completion that can be downloaded and printed upon the successful completion of the workshop 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: 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 Using Appropriate Consequences to Improve Behavior 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).



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