Course 01: Fight, Flight, Freeze No More! Pretend You Are A Light Switch!® Explore how typical brain development impacts a child’s ability to learn social, emotional, and behavior regulation skills in early childhood. Learn an evidence-based strategy to teach children behavior regulation.
Course 02: De-Escalation Techniques For Early Childhood And Beyond Learn how to capitalize on the power of your behavior when teaching behavior regulation. Use silent positive guidance strategies to teach listening the first time and other skills designed to prevent a child’s challenging behaviors. Visually scan and monitor the early childhood environment to anticipate and redirect potential misbehavior using silent strategies. Recommended prerequisite: Course 01
Course 03: Teach Social Skills To Prevent Or Replace Unwanted Behavior In The Group Setting Inability to perform appropriate social skills is a common reason why toddlers and preschoolers display challenging behaviors in the group setting. Learn how to respond to unwanted behaviors while minimizing the potential that the child learns new unwanted behaviors. We review the common reasons for unwanted behaviors in the group setting. Identify six pivotal social skills to teach children aged 18 months to 5 years old, and an experiential method for teaching the social skills to children in the group setting. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01 and Course 02
Course 04: Prevent Burnout! Strategies To Remain Calm In The Face Of Classroom Chaos Increase awareness of the stressors that occur in the classroom and their impact on your ability to show up as your best self to teach. Create a learning environment that is predictable and responsive. Analyze, evaluate, and improve your interactions with children to promote positive behavior. This is a level 3 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 05: Promote Autonomy And Self Regulation By Teaching Children To Make Choices Break down the skill of making a choice into teachable steps for infants to school-aged children. Identify natural teaching moments during routine interactions with children in the group setting. Help children learn and use positive social skills and make appropriate choices. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 06: Strategies For Including Parents In The Management Of Their Child’s Unwanted Behavior Talking to parents about unwanted behavior their child displays in the classroom can be challenging. Recognize the importance of children’s relationship with their family and support parent’s emerging competencies. Support and reinforce parent and family strengths, emerging competencies, and positive parent-child interactions. Suggest strategies to help families envelop children into busy lives, teach skills, and find pleasure in parenting their child. This is a level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 07: Assessing Patterns Of Avoidant Behavior In Children Learn how children use their unwanted behavior to delay, avoid, control or get out of something they would rather not do or something that is difficult for them. Identify and record examples of avoidant behavior. Describe to others on the assessment team a child’s performance on tasks and activities. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 08: Teach Self-Regulation And Combat Impulsivity – Teach Children To Wait And Accept No Learn how to anticipate and avoid challenging behaviors using positive guidance strategies. Recognize natural opportunities to teach children to wait and accept “no” for an answer. Learn how to teach children to accept alternatives when their requests are not immediately available. This is a level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 09: Teach Children To Stay Busy When Adults Are Busy Learning to play independently, get dressed by oneself, and generally stay on-task at meal time, circle time, while washing hands, etc. throughout the day are important skills to teach children to ensure the classroom runs smoothly and predictably. Facilitate a child’s increasing sense of autonomy and independence by consistently providing a secure base from which to explore. Learn how to use your attention to provide a learning environment that is predictable and responsive while teaching independence. This is a level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 10: Teach Children To Listen The First Time Discover strategies to assist children in following simple rules, routines, and directions. Discover age-appropriate expectations for following directions. Implement proactive supports to teach children to follow directions the first time they are given. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 11: Teach Children To Transition Successfully In The Group Setting Transitioning between activities is a pivotal social skill that ensures a classroom runs smoothly. Learn how to break down the task of transitioning into teachable components. List at least 3 social skills that are prerequisites to successfully transitioning between activities. Recognize routine activities and transitions as teachable moments. Describe how to help children learn to make appropriate choices. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 12: Teach Infants Skills To Prevent Unwanted Toddler Behaviors Discover skills to focus on teaching infants before they develop unwanted patterns of behavior as toddlers. Help children use gestures to express feelings, needs, and desires. Understand the importance of infants developing independence in play and sleep. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 13: Develop A Plan To Address Avoidant Behavior In Children Reflect on observations of children’s unwanted avoidant behavior and respond quickly to support newly developing skills. Use observations to plan meaningful teaching opportunities to teach newly developing skills. Communicate plans to teach new skills to family members based on assessment results. This is a Level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02, Course 03 and Course 07
Course 14: Bridge The Behavioral Gap Between Home And School Recognize children learn new skills more quickly when taught in the group setting and at home. Acknowledge that teachers are a key factor in communicating missing social and emotional skills to parents. Discover the 6 key components necessary for successful skill development in the group setting that can also be practiced at home. Develop a plan to communicate the missing skills to families and troubleshoot difficult communication situations. Learn how to most effectively model skills for families to work on at home. This is a level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 15: Address Sharing, Turn Taking, Tattling, And More By Teaching Advanced Social Emotional Skills In The Group Setting Teach advanced social-emotional skills to children for success in group settings after acquisition of basic social skills. Learn our method for intentionally teaching social skills such as turn taking, sharing, and more! This is a level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 16: That Behavior Came Out Of Left Field! Children are efficient with their behavior in early childhood. They rarely engage in unwanted behaviors for no reason. Learn the common reasons children engage in unwanted behavior. Learn the basics of functional behavioral assessment. Practice using an assessment tool to identify the reason(s) a child may be engaging in unwanted behavior in the group setting. This is a Level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02, Course 03 and Course 07
Course 17: Set Your Classroom Up For Success With Behavior Management Develop proactive routines to welcome new children into your care. Anticipate and prevent challenging behaviors using positive guidance strategies during routines. Discover strategies to improve cooperation with classroom routines and expectations for children whom display unwanted behavior during routines. This is a level 2 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03
Course 18: Evaluate And Continuously Improve Your Behavior Guidance Strategies Explore vignettes of behavioral and classroom management challenges reported by teachers or observed in the early childhood setting. Discuss what do to next time to prevent challenging behaviors using strategies recommended in previous prerequisite courses. This is a level 3 course. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02, Course 03, Course 05, Course 07, Course 08, Course 09, Course 10 and Course 11
Course 19: Implement A Successful Nap Routine In The Group Setting Prevent chaos at nap time by creating positive routines that will promote sleep. Review information on early childhood sleep norms. Discuss several examples of challenging behaviors that present at nap time. Learn and understand the skills that children need in order to be successful napping in the group setting. Develop plans to prevent challenging pre-nap behavior. Recommended prerequisites: Course 01, Course 02 and Course 03