This course includes:
Module 1: Building Relationships and Creating Supportive Environments
Content Includes:
- Understanding the Relationship between Challenging Behavior and Social Emotional Development
- What is social emotional development?
- Considering the foundation nature of early relationship experiences.
- Forming and maintaining relationships with your young children, families and co-workers.
- Identifying responsive care giving strategies adults can use to support infants and toddlers.
- Examining Our Attitudes about Challenging Behaviors
- Designing the Physical Environment
- Schedules, Routines, and Transitions
- Planning Activities that Promote Engagement
- Giving Directions and Teaching Classroom Rules
- Ongoing Monitoring and Positive Attention
6 hours
Module 2: Social Emotional Teaching Strategies
Content Includes:
- Identifying the Importance of Teaching Social Emotional Skills
- Identifying ways a high-quality supportive environment can promote social emotional development in infants and toddlers.
- Targeted strategies to enhance social emotional well-being of infants and toddlers.
- Understanding the positive impact of responsive caregiving routines
- Developing Friendship Skills
- Enhancing Emotional Literacy
- Controlling Anger and Impulse
- Developing Problem-Solving Skills
- Individualizing Instruction
- Partnering with Families
6 hours
Module 3: Individualized Intervention: Determining the Meaning of Behavior and Developing Appropriate Responses
Content Includes:
- Overview of Positive Behavior Supports
- Reviewing the dimensions of communication: Form and function
- Considering behavior, including challenging behavior as communication
- Providing an introduction to Functional Assessment
- Understanding the development of Behavior Support Planning
6 hours