This course includes:
Introduction to the Pyramid Model
An overview of the Pyramid Model framework and its research-based foundations, including prevention science, equity, trauma-informed care, and data-informed decision-making.
2 contact hours
Module 1: Nurturing and Responsive Relationships
Establishing nurturing and responsive relationships within a caring community is the foundation of the Pyramid Model. This training focuses on practices for building relationships with children, promoting relationships between children, relationships with families that affirm family culture and identity, and relationships with team members.
6 contact hours
Module 2: High-Quality, Supportive Environments
This module focuses on the practices for establishing high-quality supportive classroom environments that promote social-emotional skill development and prevent challenging behavior. Practices related to schedules, routines, transitions, promoting engagement, expectations, and rules are addressed in this module.
6 contact hours
Module 3: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills
Promoting social-emotional development is core to the Pyramid Model. This module provides training on the practices for teaching friendship skills, emotional literacy, self-regulation, and problem-solving.
6 contact hours
Module 4: Individualized Teaching of Social-Emotional Skills
This module guide practitioners in how to individualize instruction on social-emotional skills for children who need more targeted supports. Practices that are taught include: teaching systematically, peer-mediated intervention, planning for embedded instruction, and progress monitoring.
2 contact hours
Module 5: Addressing Challenging Behavior
This module provides the practices for understanding child challenging behavior, how to respond to challenging behavior, becoming aware of bias in responding, de-escalating behavior, and the components of developing a behavior support plan for children with persistent challenging behavior.
6 contact hours
Module 6: Overview of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children
In this module, practitioners learn about the steps of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children (PTR-YC) and how PTR-YC is used as a manualized process for conducting a functional behavioral assessment and developing a behavior support plan.
1 contact hours