Describe positive discipline strategies to use in the classroom.
Discover effective positive discipline strategies to encourage and reinforce positive behaviors in the classroom. Learn essential techniques to create a supportive learning environment in early childhood education and child care centers.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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120 hours courses
12 CEUsRelated Outcomes
- Describe the meaning of positive discipline in the classroom.
- Describe a classroom management plan that promotes positive reinforcement, clear expectations, and consistent implementation.
- Identify strategies to facilitate learning in the early childhood classroom using various methods.
- Identify common interaction strategies to help promote a positive classroom environment for young children.
- Identify guidance and discipline strategies to use with various behavior problems.
- Describe new methods to increase the positive emotional climate within a childcare program.
- Identify strategies for the child care provider that will promote successful child development. Identify strategies for working with children with special needs
- Describe the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Describe an outdoor classroom in action.
- Identify and use strategies for effective communication with community and colleagues.
- Describe the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Describe strategies and experiences to promote collaboration between child and youth care professionals and programs and other professionals involved in the care and education of all children and youth.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Describe strategies to incorporate mathematics into teaching practices.
- Give examples of positive guidance in the early childhood classroom.
- Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement.
- Explain effective strategies to guide children’s technology use and combat the media’s influence.
- Demonstrate understanding of positive alternatives of timeouts and certain disciplining techniques based on best practices.
- Define differentiated instruction in early childhood education and describe how it may look in the classroom.
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