You will learn 7 critical skills to effectively manage behavior in your preschool classroom. This course will help you examine your own thoughts and ideas about discipline in order to create learning spaces that are safe, connected, and open to collaboration.

You will learn the following objectives:

1. Define what discipline with compassion is and how it differs from corporal/physical punishment, lack of choice, and other methods of controlling behavior

2. Identify the primary goals of children's behaviors using the brain state model

3. Examine the core components of discipline with compassion and how they contribute to successful behavior management

This course contains information about managing children's behavior in the early child care classroom. We define Behavior management as the process of shaping another person’s behavior by responding to them in such a way that the person chooses to increase appropriate behaviors and decrease inappropriate behaviors.

The first concept is change, which is the idea that changing and controlling ourselves is possible and has a profound impact on others.

The second key concept is the idea that connectiveness governs behavior.

The second key concept is conflict resolution.

Be sure to check the resources section for a handout to take notes on during the course.