Guiding Children’s Behavior explores positive, proactive strategies for supporting children’s behavior and social-emotional development in early childhood settings. Topics include relationship-building with children and families, positive guidance principles, environmental influences on behavior, active engagement, emotional literacy, friendship skills, self-regulation, problem solving, adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and functional behavior assessment. Designed for future early childhood educators and childcare professionals, this book emphasizes responsive relationships, culturally inclusive practices, developmentally appropriate expectations, proactive supports, and individualized behavior support planning to help children build the social and emotional skills needed for success.

Competency 1: Analyze techniques for relationship-building with children and families

Learning Objectives:

Identify how developing nurturing relationships are foundational to social emotional development
Review responsive relationship building strategies with children and families
Analyze adult behaviors and caregiving styles that impact children’s behavior

Competency 2: Identify positive, proactive guidance principles and techniques to support children

Learning Objectives:

Differentiate between types of discipline
Review strategies for supporting developmental progression of self-concept
Reflect on personal actions and family culture
Differentiate between developmentally appropriate expectations and rules
Discuss how descriptive feedback influences behavior

Competency 3: Analyze environmental influences on child behavior

Learning Objectives:

Describe the importance of creating a developmentally appropriate environment and its impact on child behavior
Define indirect guidance in a physical early childhood environment
Identify developmentally appropriate positive guidance strategies for an early childhood environment

Competency 4: Identify strategies that support children’s active engagement in the learning environment

Learning Objectives:

Describe inclusive strategies to engage young children
Develop effective transition strategies
Describe how culturally responsive caregiving routines can be used to promote positive interactions
Label the steps of a routine within a scheduled activity
Review types of visual schedules

Competency 5: Identify strategies that proactively teach emotional literacy and friendship skills

Learning Objectives:

Define emotional literacy and why it is important in early childhood
Recognize the importance of labeling and acknowledging their feelings
Define friendship skills as prosocial skills
Discuss ways to intentionally teach social skills
Describe how adult bias can influence children’s behavior
Recognize there are cultural differences in social behaviors
Reflect on personal emotional literacy and friendship skills

Competency 6: Identify strategies for self-regulation and problem-solving techniques

Learning Objectives:

Define self-regulation
Recognize personal self-regulation strategies
Discuss the connection between self-regulation and problem solving
Analyze problem solving steps for conflict resolution
Analyze self-regulation techniques and strategies

Competency 7: Explain the impact of adverse childhood experiences on social and emotional development

Learning Objectives:

Describe the influences of trauma on brain development and how it impacts behavior
Examine the possible short-term and long-term effects of types of discipline
Review factors that influence behavior
Discuss expulsion rates in children birth-age 8

Competency 8: Develop a behavior support plan based on a functional behavior assessment

Learning Objectives:

Distinguish the continuum of developmentally appropriate behavior
Review objective assessment techniques
Describe the purpose of a functional behavior assessment to analyze behavior patterns of children
Describe the components of a behavior support plan
Identity inclusion strategies based on behavior support plan

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