Challenging Behavior: Positive Guidance in Child Care
Course Description:
Applicable to children of all ages, this course provides insight into children’s challenging behaviors, and describes positive guidance techniques that you can use to prevent and effectively respond to such behaviors. Positive guidance encourages children’s cooperation and getting along with others.
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.
- 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
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.
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Care Courses currently offers over 30 professional development courses and one non-credit training tutorial on the CDA process. All courses offer clock hours and an official online certificate of completion. The free CDA tutorial does not offer clock hours or a certificate.
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To receive the CEUs and Clock Hours for a course, you must adhere to and sign our honor code, follow directions on written assignments and show comprehension of the course content. You must make 70% or better on all course quizzes. Less than 70% will result in trainer review and evaluation. If review indicates the need for discussion, you will be informed that you must speak with a trainer. You will be given a second chance to make 70% or better. Should you fail to do so, you will receive a letter indicating that you did not pass the course and may not retake the course for 12 months.
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