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Using Positive Guidance Strategies to Teach More / Punish Less
   Sidewalk Chalk Bullet  Using positive discipline strategies to teach more and punish less begins with 3 key questions: What do I need to change about myself and my behavior? What do I need to change in the environment? How can I help the child change? Remember that a child's temperament, culture and developmental history will influence his behavior.
Show real media video. What should one do with a persistent challenging behavior? Introducing the concept of successive approximation.  MS Word File(transcript)
Show real media video. Responding to temper tantrums.  MS Word File(transcript)
One view of a Head Start class room.
  
   Sidewalk Chalk Bullet  Prevention strategies can be less direct (modeling, creating classroom rules) or more direct (redirection, coaching, teaching new skills, natural and logical consequences).
Child sticking tongue out at teacher.
Show real media video. Maria Boykin talks about how disconnected teenagers begin being disconneccted in early childhood.  MS Word File(transcript)
Show real media video. Ed Greene on a systematic approach to challenging behavior.  MS Word File(transcript)
Show real media video. Time out as a prevention strategy not a teaching strategy.  MS Word File(transcript)
  
   Sidewalk Chalk Bullet  Modeling:  Adults can begin to teach by modeling problem solving ("You both want the shovel - that's a problem! Let's search together for something else that would work in the sand"); adults can model respect ("I'm frustrated when I have to ask you so many times not to shout. Please use a calmer voice."); accountability for their actions ("My angry voice upset you, and I am sorry.")
Show real media video. Strategies for dealing with a child who excludes himself from the group by throwing things or hitting.  MS Word File(transcript)
Show real media video. Strategies for dealing with unwanted "copying" behavior.  MS Word File(transcript)
Teacher talking with child who wishes to be somewhere else.
  
   Sidewalk Chalk Bullet  Redirection is often the best first strategy to try, especially with young toddlers. Redirection means providing explanation and suggesting a more positive alternative ("Maxine, You could slip on the wet tile if you run near the water table. You will be safer if you walk.")
Child avoiding teacher's reach.
Show real media video. All prevention strategies are ways to teach.  MS Word File(transcript)
Show real media video. Using redirection to teach.  MS Word File(transcript)
  
   Sidewalk Chalk Bullet  Coaching is a good way for the adult to help two children who are trying to "work things out" ("Joey your tears tell me you are feeling sad -can you tell Jane what you are sad about?").
Show real media video. Adult support of self regulating behavior.  MS Word File(transcript)
 
  
   Sidewalk Chalk Bullet  Consequences are the things that happen following a child's actions and should be linked to those actions. So to a child who has been aggressive on the climber: "Brian, if I can't trust you to be safe on the climber, you'll need to choose another place top play."
  
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