COURSE: Early Childhood Education I UNIT C Working with Children

Understand techniques for communicating

COMPETENCY: 7.00 B2 12% expectations, setting limits, and guiding
behavior.
OBJECTIVE: 7.02 B2 7% Understand techniques for guiding behavior.
Essential Question: What guidance techniques are most effective?
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What are the major goals of guiding children?

To promote prosocial behaviors
Examples of prosocial behaviors
To teach self-control
Examples of self-control

What are the two types of guidance?

Direct (involving physical and verbal actions) and indirect (involving outside factors that
influence behavior)
Direct guidance techniques

Use simple language

Speak in a relaxed voice
Be positive
Offer choices with care
Encourage independence and cooperation
Be firm
Be consistent
Provide time for change
Consider feelings
Intervene when necessary
Indirect guidance techniques
Open classroom, good visibility
Close monitoring of young children
Large, open spaces
Bathrooms easy to find and use
Fixtures at childrens levels
 Place to hang up their own coats
Low shelves and sinks to help with cleanup
Designated place for all toys and materials
Cues on shelves to show what is stored there
Marked containers
OBJECTIVE: 7.02 B2 7% Understand techniques for guiding behavior.
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Recommended techniques for guiding behavior

Positive reinforcement
Using consequences
Warnings
Time out
Imessages
Effective praise
- Make praise age-appropriate
- Give praise immediately
- Establish eye contact
- Dont overuse praise

Suggesting
Prompting
Persuading
Redirecting
Modeling
Listening, active listening
Ignoring
Encouraging
Promote a positive self-concept
- Words and actions
- Reactions
- Subtle messages
- Verbal and nonverbal feedback
- Activities that make children feel good about themselves
- Experiences that provide for student success