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Positive Feedback and Encouragement
Providing positive encouragement is a powerful practice for helping children meet behavior expectations. This fact sheet provides ideas for how caregivers can deliver positive encouragement.
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Communication is Key
Providing directions in a positive way is a powerful practice for helping children meet behavior expectations. This resource provides ideas for how caregivers can state directions in positive terms.
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All About My Child (Spanish)
This document is designed to be used to gather information about the children in your classrooms. It will provide teachers with important information to help them build a relationship with each and every child and family.
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All About My Child
This document is designed to be used to gather information about the children in your classrooms. It will provide teachers with important information to help them build a relationship with each and every child and family.
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Re-Connecting and Building Relationships with Infants
Use this tip sheet to help practitioners of infants and toddlers intentionally plan and think about how to reconnect, help children transition back to the classroom, and support children’s social and emotional development after being away from the program.
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Rebuilding the Pyramid: Reconnecting After a Break
Rebuilding the Pyramid: Reconnecting After a Break is a one page tip sheet to help preschool practitioners intentionally plan and think about how to support children’s use of social and emotional skills that are important to re-teach or remind children after being away from a classroom. Areas to focus on include: schedules and routines, supportive…
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Emotional Piggy Bank
Think of all the ways you make connections with children as we make deposits into their “emotional piggy bank.” Playing, giving time and attention, and showing warmth and affection are just a few ways we can make deposits. Fill in the coins on the worksheet with ideas of how you will build responsive relationships with…
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Building Positive Relationships with Young Children
This handout describes the importance of building relationships with young children and contains practical strategies for for building positive relationships with children in the early childhood education setting.
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Hot Buttons Activity
This handout helps practitioners examine how challenging behavior impacts adult-child relationships.
