50 Early Childhood Guidance Strategies

Fifty Early Childhood Guidance Strategies presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand positive approach involving the young children themselves in eliminating their inappropriate behavior.  Teachers and student teachers alike will quickly learn what to expect when children first enter the early childhood classroom, how to assess children's behavior, how to redirect it, and how to get children involved in controlling their own actions.  The 50 strategies include appropriate child behavior categories such as communicating feelings and conflict conversion, inappropriate behavior categories such as possession conflicts and power struggles, and teacher concerns such as intervention (how and when) and time-out (using or not using).  Each of the strategies is illustrated by photos taken by the author showing children and teachers engaged in the activities discussed.  Children's art and appropriate books are also included where appropriate.

1.  Assessing Behavior

2.  Attention Span

3.  Attention-Seeking

4.  Behavior, inappropriate

5.  Communciating Feelings

6.  Conflict Conversion

7.  Conflicts, group entry

8.  Conflicts, possession

9.  Crisis, children in

10.  Emergencies

11.  Emotion Modeling

12.  Environment, classroom

13.  Family Involvement

14.  Fault-finding

15.  Friendship

16.  Generosity

17.  Guidance

18.  Helpfulness

19.  Hitting, Biting

20.  Humor

21.  Intervention

22.  Jealousy

23.  Limits

24.  Materials, calming

25.  Moods

26.  Movement

27.  Music

28.  Name-calling

29.  Non-verbal Cues

30.  Other-esteem

31.  Play, dramatic

32.  Paly, super-hero

33.  Power struggles

34.  Praise

35.  Redirection

36.  Reinforcement

37.  Rule-making

38.  Self-esteem

39.  Self-regulation

40.  Sharing

41.  Storms

42.  Stress

43.  Tantrums

44.  Tattling

45.  Tears

46.  Time, use of

47.  Time-out

48.  Turn-taking

49.  Transitions

50.  Trust