This video includes three programs: Developing positive relationships to support young children's social and emotional development (24 min.); preventative practices in the preschool classroom (35 min.); and developing social skills and utilizing positive guidance strategies in managing everyday challenges (34 min.). From Arlitt Instructional Media in association with Purdy Productions. 

Also available:

Math: #8019
Mathematical Thinking: #8043
Language Arts: #8023
Science: #8024
Social Studies: #8025
Art: #8108

Young children need caring, responsive adults who build relationships with them and who provide developmentally appropriate experiences. They need adults who implement individualized strategies for children whose behavior interrupts their optimal development and learning. The July 2011 issue of Young Children focuses on "Behaviors that Still Challenge Children and Adults." Theme articles focus on dual language learners with challenging behaviors, rough play, superhero play, sexual development in young children, positive behavior strategies, and self-regulation. Additional articles discuss standards in kindergarten and promoting young children's prosocial skills.

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The revised edition of this perennial favorite provides new research-based strategies to help preservice and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behaviors. Useful for primary, preschool, and child care educators, this book includes practical tips for responding to children’s needs and helping them know what’s expected. Includes new material on inclusion, autism, culture, and dual-language learning. From Pearson.

This instructional, interactive DVD includes 28 video clips of varying lengths captured in actual early childhood classrooms. The clips are divided into six instructional categories: Prevention in Action, Positive Guidance in Action, Learning Opportunities, Developing Observation Skills, Case Study: Pre-Intervention, and Case Study: Intervention. A 60-page Trainer Guide is included on the disc, with suggestions for using each video clip in training, leading group discussions, and conducting small group activities. From the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative and Video Active Productions.

40 min.

Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD video developed by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) and Video Active Productions in partnership with NAEYC. Training and documentary material help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviors and develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviors to meet their needs.

Disc 1:

–What is challenging behavior?

–Developmentally appropriate behavior

–Why do kids misbehave?

–Parents as partners

–Skill Development Study #1 

Disc 2:

–Prevention strategies

–Behavioral Planning I

–Behavioral Planning II

–Intervention strategies

–Skill Development Study #2

Discs are also available separately. Disc 1: #8014; Disc 2: #8015.

You can watch a clip of this video here.
 

Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD video developed by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) and Video Active Productions in partnership with NAEYC. Training and documentary material help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviors and develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviors to meet their needs.

Disc 1:

–What is challenging behavior?

–Developmentally appropriate behavior

–Why do kids misbehave?

–Parents as partners

–Skill Development Study #1

Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD developed by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) and Video Active Productions in partnership with NAEYC. Training and documentary material help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviors and develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviors to meet their needs.

Disc 2:

–Prevention strategies

–Behavioral Planning I

–Behavioral Planning II

–Intervention strategies

–Skill Development Study #2

Guiding Children's Behavior is a comprehensive guide to classroom management, emphasizing observation as the best way to determine developmentally appropriate interventions. By following a process for observing children, educators will learn how to see beyond children’s manifest behavior to focus on their motivations, needs, and interests. Featuring a series of chapters organized by age, from birth through elementary school, this book helps teachers to individualize discipline practices; offers supportive vignettes and a menu of developmentally appropriate strategies that teachers can choose from; includes a training module to help teachers, administrators, and parents work together to create more consistency between home and school; and provides useful forms. From Teachers College Press. 

Some early childhood programs have adopted no-touch policies, and others allow only a very minimal level of physical contact between teachers and children. Yet touch is as necessary as food or water for young children to thrive and grow physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally. Experiences of touch in all its forms—whether nurturing touch from adults, tactile explorations of the environment, or physical interactions with peers—are essential to high-quality early care and education. From this book, practitioners will learn just why touch is essential to young children’s development and how it can be incorporated safely into early childhood settings, from the infant program to the primary classroom.

To view the table of contents and chapter 1, click on Preview Content.

Spanish version of "Building Circles, Breaking Cycles—Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: The Early Childhood Educator's Role" (DD2). This brochure helps early childhood educators realize they have a role in preventing—not just reporting—child abuse and neglect. Empowers educators to use their knowledge and skills to support families in a variety of ways to help prevent harm to children. A companion discussion guide is available here (pdf). NAEYC members can receive up to 50 copies of this brochure for free.