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Length: 12 hour/s (2 days)
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Cost: $375.00 members
$425.00 non-members
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Number: DIS119
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Description: This course is designed to ground you in the essentials of
promoting social and emotional development in classroom settings and understanding the
basic principals of the social-emotional domain and how it relates to children
and their families. Topics covered are: Participants will examine attitudes, learn how to
find the relationship between challenging behavior
and social emotional development, create classroom environments including
designing physical environments, designing
routines and schedules, creating activities that promote engagements, giving directions,
understanding the concept of following
rules and directions and using positive feedback that promotes children's
social and emotional development. Participants
will explore the teaching strategies by identifying
teachable moments, building positive relationships
with young children, understanding friendship
skills, fostering emotional literacy and teaching
anger management and problem solving. This session is broken into two stages: Determining the meaning of challenging behavior and developing a behavior
support plan. First, participants will learn how to identify
challenging behaviors, understand PBS (Positive Behavior Support) and its
process, understand and utilize functional assessment observation by
determining the function and understanding hypothesis development. Second, participants will learn how to view a problem, understand the
importance of PBS, understand the components a behavior support plan, how to
build the plan, how to respond to problem behavior, how to setup effective
teams and teams logistics and how to monitor outcomes.
Prerequisite: None
Learning Objectives: Upon completion, you will be able to:
· Understand ways in which your own perceptions and experiences influence
how you interact with children with challenging
behaviors
· Understand how to develop a system for collecting data, and then using it
to develop strategies that capitalize on children’s
strengths and needs
· Understand how to identify when and how to seek appropriate supports
within the program and within the community in an
effort to fully integrate children with challenging
behaviors into their program
· Understand how continuing professional development offers strategies that
supervisors can use to help staff apply new skills and
extend their learning
Target Audience: This course is designed for Mental Health, Disabilities, Teaching and
Education staff. All Head Start staff working with
children will benefit from this course.
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