Transcript Preschool Behavior Support Strategies

Preschool Behavior
Support Strategies
Darcy Burns
Dawn Appleby-Quackenbush
Preschool Behavior Specialist
Regional Special Education-Technical Assistance Center (RSE-TASC)
Objectives
● Understand the importance of dealing with
challenging behaviors in the Preschool Setting
● Understanding elements of a High Quality
Preschool Program
● Gain a broad understanding of strategies that teach
social skills
What is Challenging Behavior?
Challenging Behaviors...
● Interferes with children’s learning, development
and successful play.
● Is harmful to the child, other children or adults.
● Puts a child at high risk for later social problem or
school failures.
From: Challenging Behaviors in Young Children
By Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Raminsky
Sobering Facts…
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Campbell (1995) estimated that
approximately 10-15% of all typically
developing preschool children have
chronic mild to moderate levels of
behavior problems.
Children who are poor are much
more likely to develop behavior
problems with prevalence rates that
approach 30% (Qi & Kaiser, 2003).
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Volume 36, Issue 1,
Children who are identified as hard to manage at
ages 3 and 4 have a high probability (50:50) of
continuing to have difficulties into adolescence.
(Campbell & Ewing, 1990; Campbell, 1997; Egeland et al., 1990).
● Challenging behavior in
preschool is one of the
strongest predictors of
more serious problem
behaviors later in life
(Preschool Policy Brief 12/2007, Issue 16 www.nieer.org)
Young Children with Challenging Behavior:
● Are rejected by peers
● Receive less positive
feedback
● Do worse in school
● Are less likely to be
successful in Kindergarten.
Preschool children are three times more
likely to be “expelled” than children in
grades K-12
(Gilliam, 2005)
Our responses...
● Can shape and
reinforce the
challenging behaviors,
increasing the
behaviors
For a child to unlearn an old behavior and replace with a new
behavior, the new behavior must be repeated on average 28
times (Harry Wong).
What is High-Quality Preschool?
Curriculum
● Comprehensive domains of learning
based on NYS Pre-k Foundations for the
Common Core.
● Clearly defined goals and objectives
● Well-designed learning activities
● Intentional teaching
● Culturally and linguistically responsive
● Individualizes instruction
● Ongoing assessment
Learning Environment
● Well organized, equipped and maintained
● Adequate supplies, materials and equipment that supports
learning
● Welcoming and accessible
Health and Safety
● Promote nutrition and
health of children
Staff
Qualifications
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Qualified knowledgeable and professionally committed
Create enriching learning opportunities
Receive ongoing professional development
Reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity
Leadership and Management
● Establishes policies, procedure and systems to
ensure program functions properly
Relationships
Children
● Program promotes
positive relationships
and
● Encourages individual
worth and belonging
Family
● Program establishes and maintains
collaborative relationships
● Teachers and family members
exchange information
● Families are invited to fully participate
in child’s education
Community
● Establish relationship and
use the resources of the
community
“If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach.”
“If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we teach.”
“If a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we teach.”
“If a child doesn’t know how to drive, we teach.”
“If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we….
...teach? … punish?”
“Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically as we do the other?”
(Herner, 1998)
What to teach?
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Self awareness
Self regulation
Relationships with others
Accountability
Adaptability
(New York State Prekindergarten Foundation for the Common Core
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/pdfdocs/nyslsprek.pdf)
Teaching Social Skills
● Model expected behavior
AND describe it
● Teach social skills, emotions and coping
● Use naturally occurring opportunities to teach
social skills
● Structure activities so social skills are practiced
Tools to use...
● Center on the Social Emotional
Foundations for Early Learners (CSEFEL)
○ I Can Be a SUPER Friend
○ What Do We Do in Circle
○ Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and
Think
○ Solutions Kit
○ Many more
• Head Start Center for Inclusion,University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/hscenter/teacher-tools#build
Other Resources
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http://depts.washington.edu/hscenter/teachertools#build
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—ttp://www.playingwithwords365.com/2012/03/12sites-where-i-get-free-therapy-materials/
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http://considerateclassroom.blogspot.com
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http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu
Darcy Burns
Preschool Behavior Specialist
Jefferson-Lewis-Hamilton-Herkimer-Oneida BOCES
[email protected]
(315)779-7116
Dawn Appleby-Quackenbush
Preschool Behavior Specialist
Capital District/North Country
[email protected]
(518)464-3993