Challenging Behavior: Positive Guidance in Child Care

6 Clock Hours / 0.6 CEUs / $40.00

Course Description

This course applies to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

This course provides insight into children’s challenging behaviors and describes positive guidance techniques that you can use to prevent and effectively respond to these behaviors.

Positive guidance encourages children to cooperate and get along with others. Includes information on time-out, time-in, and how to model appropriate behavior. See the learning outcomes and topics below for more information on what is covered in this course.

Course formats

This course is offered in both our coursebook (with required online component/testing) and our fully online format. 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?

Prerequisites

Must be able to fluently read and write English.

Instructional methodology

Read written material, view videos, listen to audio segments.

Assessment methods

Multiple choice quiz and written assignments.

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