Audience Category: For Child Care Providers

What is meant by the purpose of behavior and why is important? Find out in this report.

Although most children find it easy to talk, play and work with other children, some need a teacher’s assistance. Through planned social situations children are able to make new friends, which gives them confidence to seek out other social interactions. Discover various strategies in this report.

Children who feel appreciated and enjoyed by the adults in their lives are more likely to try to please those adults. In your classroom, this means that you have a very easy behavior management tool literally at your fingertips. Find some quick and easy strategies in this report.

As a teacher you can help the children in your classroom learn to label emotions and develop this valuable social-emotional skill. This report provides examples of ways to incorporate “emotion faces” into your classroom as well as other strategies for fostering emotional literacy in young children.

By using self managing techniques, children become responsible for their actions and learn to monitor their own behavior. This report provides examples of techniques you can use to facilitate self management in your classroom.

This report contains ideas for activities that you can use to support smooth transitions for children throughout the day.

Learn more about self-management for children and why it’s important in this report.

Do you want to create a class family? Do you want your children to connect with only with you but also with their peers? As teachers we try to build relationships with children in our classroom but we also need to encourage relationships between the children. The simple activities listed in this report will foster… Continue reading Strategies for Promoting Positive Interactions Between Children

What are transitions, why is it important to address transitions between activities and what can you do in your classroom? Find out in this report.

Children who are engaged in activities with materials, a classmate or an adult are less likely to be engaged in challenging behaviors…so classroom schedules and routines should be designed with child engagement in mind. If your schedule is predictable and the children have been taught the daily routines, your classroom will run more smoothly and… Continue reading Strategies for Routines and Classroom Schedules