Guides: Education Support and Childcare: Managing Student Behaviour

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Collaborative Intervention in Early Childhood When young children are showing signs of difficulty, parents, childcare providers, and teachers often approach practitioners for guidance on how to best support healthy development. Whether providing consultation in early education programs and elementary schools, or assisting children and families in clinics or private practice, these practitioners need a sophisticated understanding of early childhood issues combined with a down-to-earth approach to intervention.
Supporting Positive Behaviour in Intellectual Disabilities and Autism This highly practical book is an accessible and grounded handbook for addressing challenging behaviour in children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including autism. It recognises that challenging behaviour does not appear out of nowhere and is meaningful for the person exhibiting it. Behaviour can be communicative and an important signifier of underlying sensory or environmental issues. Focusing on a person-centred approach throughout, the book has advice and strategies for working with the client's families, support staff and professionals.
Talk to the Elephant What do you do when your learners know what to do but still aren't doing it? In the last few decades, the fields of psychology, behavioral economics, and other behavioral sciences have brought an enormous amount of scientific research into helping people with behavior change. Only a fraction of that research has made its way back into learning design. Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change shows you how to add critical tools to your learning design toolbox to affect behavior change. You'll find out how to use frameworks and strategies from behavioral science to help you research and analyze challenges, feel more confident that you're solving the right problem, and design and test solutions that can help people with difficult behavior changes.

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Extended Notes: Extending Learning Beyond the Classroom After school programs can easily incorporate social-emotional and leadership activities for students that will help them learn how to identify and work through their emotional responses rather than act out. At ExtendEd Notes, our tools will help you include these kinds of activities in your after school curriculum, along with team building exercises that teach valuable communication and inter-personal skills. Through some simple strategies, social-emotional development can be enhanced in any after school program.
Student Behaviour in Public Schools Procedures Refer to the policy supported by this procedure.

Online Videos

Child Anger - School Age Children They get SO MAD! And sometimes we just don’t know why! You expect meltdowns from toddlers who are just trying to figure out their big feelings. But what about your school-age child? Is their anger normal or is there something more going on? Are there other intense feelings that your child is struggling with?
Eye Openers Are Mind Openers: Attention Exercises for the Classroom Stress and distractions are major obstacles to learning at any class level. For the elementary classroom, specialized exercises called Eye Openers have been shown to dramatically improve focus and awareness among students. This program follows Dr. Martha Eddy—a widely respected educational consultant, founder of the Center for Kinesthetic Education, and the creator of Eye Openers—as she puts her movement and body coordination strategies into action.
Problem Solving in the Moment Teachers can use the problem solving approach of this in-service suite with children in their classrooms. It helps children resolve social problems as they arise “in the moment.” This video is part of a series of 15-minute in-service suites on Engaging Interactions and Environments.
Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly Childcare expert Laura Amies takes on the tears and the tantrums as she teaches toddlers how to listen, have self-control, obedience and good manners.

Dr Louise Porter, Child Psychologist DVDs

Gifted children meeting their needs In three chapters, this live recording: describes the signs of giftedness and examines how to identify intellectual giftedness; examines the emotional and social needs of gifted learners and how to meet these; focuses on meeting the children's learning needs, including gifted-learning disabled students, and collaboration between parents and teachers in schools
Guiding children's behaviour Contains sections on Guidance versus control, Alternatives to rewards, Responding to disruptive behaviour , Questions and answers

Books in the Library

A comprehensive guide to classroom management Behaviour management in the classroom can be one of the most challenging aspects of teaching, but with the right approach it can be rewarding and enriching for both student and teacher. A Comprehensive Guide to Classroom Management provides a systematic overview of the major theories and styles of discipline in schools.
Constructive Guidance and Discipline This book presents guidance and discipline concepts within a framework of child development, developmentally appropriate practices, and constructivist education to give early childhood educators the best approaches available for nurturing children for success. Focusing on what is best for young children, rather than merely presenting an impartial overview of various approaches, the authors stress helping adults to effectively assist children's moral development using the coercive approaches of punishment or behavior modification.
The Zones of Regulation The "Zones" concept and learning activites help children and adults manage their emotions and sensory needs while also addressing executive functioning skills and "Social Thinking" concepts. The "Zones" teaches students and clients how to identify their levels of arousal and/or sensory need, which calming strategies work for them. The "Zones" strategies are applicable to elementary regular education and all levels of special education students (early childhood through high school depending on congnitive abilities and maturity level).
Young Children's Behaviour : Guidance Approaches for Early Childhood Educators (4th edition) Outlines the beliefs and values that underpin the guidance approach to managing the behaviors of children from birth to eight years of age.

Online Journals / Article

Classroom behaviour management strategies in response to problematic behaviours of primary school children with special educational needs: views of special educational needs coordinators Children identified with special educational needs (SEN) and behavioural difficulties present extra challenges to educators and require additional supports in school. This paper presents views from special educational needs coordinators (SENCos) on various strategies used by educators to support children identified with SEN and problematic behaviours.
The kids who fear school Retrieved from ABC News 30 April 2024
My students taught me the importance of being a firm teacher and managing student behaviour Posted 31 July 2024
Parents say 'good girl' and 'good boy' all the time. Here's why you should try and say something else Parents, relatives and teachers say these phrases all the time and mean them positively. They may use it when a child puts on their shoes when asked, when they draw something interesting, or get a maths question correct. But this kind of language may not always be healthy or helpful. One issue is it doesn’t actually give children clear feedback on what they just did or said. What could you say instead?
Programming for Social and Emotional Learning in Outside School Hours Care Outside school hours care (OSHC) presents a great opportunity to develop the social and emotional learning for the children who access this care.
What is 'school refusal' and what can I do if my child struggles to get to school? Retrieved from ABC News 30 April 2024

Toy Library Resources

Anxiety Solutions for Kids Fifty cards with simple, fun activities for children who experience worry or anxiety from time to time - and that's every child! Especially for children between 3-14 years and teachers, parents, psychologists, counsellors, early childhood educators, health workers, family workers, foster carers and...anyone who cares for children. Based on clinically-proven techniques used for many years by consulting psychologist and clinical nutritionist, Selina Byrne M.A.P.S. including: mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy, brain research, positive psychology. Help children manage anxious thoughts, create well-being and build resilience ... 50 laminated, full-colour cards, plus a 48-page booklet with ideas for using the cards at home, at school or within professional settings. Book includes references and links to research.