Challenging Behavior: Positive Guidance in Child Care
Training to help you understand and guide children’s challenging behaviors with positive, practical strategies.
This course applies to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Explore the art of managing children's challenging behavior while becoming an expert in positive guidance. Aimed at empowering childcare professionals, caregivers and educators, this popular course offers a deep dive into understanding and guiding challenging behaviors in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
Choose a course format (online or coursebook) to start this engaging and practical course. Get ready to learn positive guidance techniques that will promote a cooperative and harmonious learning environment!
This course is also offered in Spanish.
Welcome Video
Welcome to Challenging Behavior: Positive Guidance in Child Care! Watch the welcome video from the course:
Through relevant content and real-life scenarios, you'll gain invaluable skills to foster a positive and nurturing "yes" environment for young children. Our course teaches you how to model appropriate behavior for children and prepare them for new situations. Moreover, discover the issues with using "time-out," and learn how to use "time-in" to help children develop self-regulation.
Course formats
This course is offered in both our coursebook (with required online component/testing) and our fully online format. The online format of this course includes audio narration in most course sections. Click here to learn more about Care Courses' training formats.
Acceptance information
This course is accepted for child care professional development training requirements in most states and for the CDA credential and for CDA renewal training requirements.
Learning outcomes
After completing this course, you will be able to describe the meaning and benefits of positive guidance; explain how positive guidance fulfills children’s needs and helps them reach their full potential; identify negative discipline techniques and how they affect young children; identify positive guidance techniques that help prevent challenging behaviors; describe positive guidance techniques that encourage cooperation; discuss positive guidance techniques that empower young children to resolve social conflicts appropriately; and explain how modeling appropriate behaviors and paying the right kind of attention provides children with positive guidance.
Topics covered
- The meaning and benefits of positive guidance
- Positive guidance for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
- Positive guidance for children with special needs
- Positive guidance and self-regulation
- Children’s needs
- What children don’t need
- Prevention is better than intervention
- Preparing children for new situations
- A “yes” environment
- Making sure children know the rules
- Giving meaningful choices
- Understanding a child’s perspective
- Getting along with others
- Modeling behavior
- The right kind of attention
Want to learn more? Read our blog: What is Wrong with Time-Out?
What our students say about Challenging Behavior: Positive Guidance in Child Care
“Thank you for reaching out with all of that helpful information. Everything went well with the online course I ordered. I had no trouble activating or maneuvering through the course. The course itself was very thorough and informative. I appreciate the valuable service you offer.” - San Antonio, Texas
"Everything was perfect for my course enrollment. I live in Quebec, Canada and every year, I am required to do 6 hours of professional improvement courses. Where I live, the courses are available in French only and that is how I started some courses through distance learning to have them in English. I am an Early Childhood Educator of 43 years and am quickly approaching retirement. I have enjoyed these courses as a “refresher” of what I have studied but have found that there definitely is a different approach to dealing with behavior. I will be able to apply this new knowledge in my last year on the work force. I thank you for all of the support and hope to see this type of distance learning continue. Early Childhood is an important career and our performance in the classroom is the foundation of each child’s future! - Quebec, Canada
"I recently completed the Challenging Behavior class. By far this is one of the best classes I have taken in 5 yrs. Agreed by another coworker. Pleased to note that the teachers I work with this year are in tune with the suggestions and teachings offered. Thank you." - Portland, Oregon
“This course will change how I work completely. I am recommending the courses to my staff, family, and friends. Also am thinking of other incentives for those who take your courses.” - Upper Marlboro, Maryland
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Course Details & Support
Prerequisites
- Language: Fluent reading and writing in the language of instruction (English or Spanish).
- Technology: Internet access and a web-enabled device (computer, smartphone, or tablet).
Access & Completion Deadline
- This training expires 12 months from the date of purchase.
- To receive a certificate of completion, you must successfully finish the course before the expiration date.
Learning Methods
- Read instructor-written material
- Watch videos
- Listen to audio segments
Assessments
- Multiple-choice quizzes
- Written assignments
Requirements for CEUs and Clock Hours
To earn CEUs and Clock Hours for a course, you must:
- Agree to and acknowledge our Honor Code & Policy
- Follow all instructions for written assignments
- Demonstrate comprehension of the course content
- Achieve the passing score specified in your course.
Quizzes and Assessments
- If your score falls below the passing mark, a trainer will review your work. If needed, you may be asked to speak with a trainer.
- You will have a second chance to retake any quiz or assessment.
- If you do not pass on your second attempt, contact us at info@carecourses.com. We will review your course and follow up directly.
- All quizzes are open book; all answers are found in the course material.
Certificates
- Official Care Courses certificates of completion record your clock hours and CEUs.
- Certificates are available in the My Courses area of your account.
- Please note: All course and certificate dates and times are on Eastern Time.
Getting Started
- See how our training works on the training process page.
- Watch our course navigation video for a quick tour of the online portal.
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- Phone: 1-800-685-7610 (Mon–Fri, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern)
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About Care Courses
- Care Courses offers over 50 professional development courses and one non-credit training tutorial on the CDA process.
- All professional development courses include clock hours, CEUs, and an official online certificate of completion.
- (The free CDA tutorial does not offer clock hours or a certificate.)
Tuition & Bundles
- Course tuition entitles one person to receive the clock hours and CEUs granted upon successful completion.
- Bundle pricing covers tuition for all courses included in the bundle.
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