Challenging Behavior: Positive Guidance in Child Care

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Course Overview

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 engaging and popular course offers a deep dive into understanding and guiding challenging behaviors in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Get ready to learn positive guidance techniques that will promote a cooperative and harmonious learning environment!

This course is also offered in Spanish.

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.

Looking for Spanish? Get the Spanish edition (Comportamiento desafiante: La orientación positiva en el cuidado infantil) . ¿Lo quieres para ti en español? Versión en español.

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More about this course: Through relevant content and real-life scenarios, you'll gain invaluable skills to foster a positive and nurturing "yes" environment for young children. This course will teach you how to model appropriate behavior for children and prepare them for new situations. Additionally, you'll learn the issues with using "time-out," and learn how to use "time-in" to help children develop self-regulation. 

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
• 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?

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