For courses in Classroom Management for Young Children, Guiding Young Children, and Managing Behaviors of Young Children.
Fifty Early Childhood Guidance Strategies presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand positive approach involving the young children themselves in eliminating their inappropriate behavior. Teachers and student teachers alike will quickly learn what to expect when children first enter the early childhood classroom, how to assess children's behavior, how to redirect it, and how to get children involved in controlling their own actions. The 50 strategies include appropriate child behavior categories such as communicating feelings and conflict conversion, inappropriate behavior categories such as possession conflicts and power struggles, and teacher concerns such as intervention (how and when) and time-out (using or not using). Each of the strategies is illustrated by photos taken by the author showing children and teachers engaged in the activities discussed. Children's artifacts and appropriate book titles are also included where appropriate.
1. Assessing Behavior
2. Attention Span
3. Attention-Seeking
4. Behavior, inappropriate
5. Communciating Feelings
6. Conflict Conversion
7. Conflicts, group entry
8. Conflicts, possession
9. Crisis, children in
10. Emergencies
11. Emotion Modeling
12. Environment, classroom
13. Family Involvement
14. Fault-finding
15. Friendship
16. Generosity
17. Guidance
18. Helpfulness
19. Hitting, Biting
20. Humor
21. Intervention
22. Jealousy
23. Limits
24. Materials, calming
25. Moods
26. Movement
27. Music
28. Name-calling
29. Non-verbal Cues
30. Other-esteem
31. Play, dramatic
32. Paly, super-hero
33. Power struggles
34. Praise
35. Redirection
36. Reinforcement
37. Rule-making
38. Self-esteem
39. Self-regulation
40. Sharing
41. Storms
42. Stress
43. Tantrums
44. Tattling
45. Tears
46. Time, use of
47. Time-out
48. Turn-taking
49. Transitions
50. Trust