"Challenging behaviors are complex to understand and
frustrating to handle. When we make the effort and succeed, even in small
ways, we can be certain that it is making a difference in that child's life
- a difference that can last a lifetime."
-- Fred Rogers
Challenging Behaviors: Where Do We Begin?
We want to help children find healthy ways to express their needs and their
feelings. For some children, this is not easy. Whether the
causes are severe stresses in their lives, lack of good role models to help
them learn how to get the needed attention and nurturing, biological or
other reasons why they "act out"; by helping children learn to manage
themselves, we are helping them to be ready to learn and to be productive
members of society.
Challenging behaviors are difficult for the child who is
exhibiting them, their teachers and caregivers, their classmates, and even
the families of their classmates. These behaviors can exert pressures and
generate strong feelings among many people. They can turn a happy
productive environment into a confused and anxious place. They can create
frustration, anger, and even self-doubt for caregivers. Simply
removing these children is not a good answer. Often a child goes from
facility to facility without ever getting the help they need to learn new
and productive ways to handle self-regulation and expression of feelings.
Caregivers, teachers, and parents face a big job helping children with
challenging behaviors to achieve new ways of reacting to stress and learning
the skills of self regulation, but it is possible to be optimistic about
improvement. Many children do learn new ways supported by consistent
and loving setting of limits and demonstrations of appropriate skills.
This 3 hour workshop from
Family Communications
(the production company for Mr. Roger's Neighborhood) is designed as an
introductory training workshop to help child care professionals understand
more about challenging behaviors in young children, address the strong
feelings this behavior may evoke in the educators themselves, and implement
changes in their approaches which can support young children's growth in
self-regulation and appropriate behavior.
The workshop format includes the use of video segments,
large and small group discussions, lecture, and hands-on activities with
workshop activities and ideas and suggestions that can help providers when
dealing with children’s angry behavior.
This workshop attempts to fulfill three goals:
- Participants will gain greater understanding of
behaviors that we call "challenging".
- Participants will begin to see the child in new ways.
- Participants will learn how to support self-regulation
in children through a variety of strategies.
"With 'Challenging Behavior's: Where Do We Begin?',
Family Communications continues its tradition of offering trainers the tools
they need to help child care providers build on strengths and caring
relationships in even the most difficult of circumstances. Compelling
videos, well chosen summaries of research, a tested workshop outline, and
engaging materials for the participants why trainers as they create a calm,
safe environment; demonstrate respect for caregivers knowledge, skills and
concern for children; and set in motion a process of positive change the
children, families and communities."
-- Emily Fenichel, Zero to Three
If you would like more information about
"Challenging Behaviors: Where Do We Begin", would like to set up a training, or for help in finding
educational opportunities in your area...
contact me
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