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Guiding Children's Behavior (ECED 1300)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
3
Description:
This course will examine the impact of child development, relationships, culture, and the environment on positive behavioral guidance in early-childhood settings. You will explore strategies for interacting with individual children, small or large groups, and developing caring social communities with a focus on developmental approaches that consider self-discipline as an emerging skill and acknowledges collaboration between school and home settings. Must be taken A-F.
Topical Outline:
1. Guidance theories for children
2. Personal belief system about guidance
3. Strategies for involving parents in implementing guidance strategies
4. Strategies for preventing mistaken behaviors
5. Positive strategies for addressing mistaken behaviors
6. Methods and materials for teaching pro-social skills to children and youth
Learning Outcomes:
1. Describe developmentally appropriate positive guidance approaches for individuals and groups that encourage healthy peer relationships, a sense of security and self-esteem
2. Identify positive environments and prosocial teaching tools that support the mental and physical health of all children especially during transitions and routines
3. Investigate culturally responsive positive guidance strategies
4. Consider how personal experiences such as trauma and resilience influence behaviors and design environments that support children’s developmentally appropriate behavior choices
5. Examine ways to establish supportive relationships with children and guide them consistently with families, to enhance learning, development, and well-being
6. Foster each child’s development of self-regulation and social interaction skills within the context of child development
Prerequisites:
A recommended placement into
READ 0200 or
ESOL 0052 or a recommended completion of
READ 0100 or
ESOL 0042.