This Canadian Child Care Federation workshop is divided into three 3-hour sessions and recommended to be offered intermittently to enable participants an opportunity to internalize information and apply it to practice between sessions. In determining delivery of sessions it is important that the process of delivery for the three sessions be determined based on level of education and experience of participants.
- Session One will focus on exploring the whys and wherefores of children’s behavior, understanding what children may gain from challenging behavior and your role in assessing the function that challenging behavior plays and examining the effects that challenging behavior may have on the other children in the program and on the practitioner.
- Session Two will identify strategies that prevent or minimize challenging behaviors, recognize anxiety and other early warning signs of challenging behaviors, examine and where necessary, change the practitioner’s approach to challenging behavior and use observation techniques to gain more information about challenging behavior.
- Session Three will identify appropriate behavior strategies, develop, implement and evaluate a plan of action for coping with challenging behaviors, including determining when outside intervention is necessary, working with parents as partners around challenging behaviors, help other children and their parents cope with challenging behavior and reflect on your practice as it relates to challenging behavior.
