Describe the meaning of positive discipline in the classroom.
Learn about the meaning of positive discipline in the classroom and discover effective strategies to implement in early childhood education and child care centers. Enhance classroom management and create a positive learning environment using these proven techniques.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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- Describe positive discipline strategies to use in the classroom.
- Describe a classroom management plan that promotes positive reinforcement, clear expectations, and consistent implementation.
- Describe a classroom management plan that promotes positive reinforcement and clear expectations for the school-age setting
- Describe strategies to encourage positive behaviors in the classroom.
- Describe observational techniques and their purpose in the Montessori classroom.
- Describe the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Describe ways to interact with parents that will create a positive experience for both the parents and their children.
- Describe the various ways teachers can address challenging behaviors in the classroom.
- Describe an environment through video observation of a 3, 4, and/or 5 year classroom
- Describe an environment through video observation of a 3, 4, and/or 5 year old classroom
- Describe how sign language can be used as a means of communication with infants
- Describe new methods to increase the positive emotional climate within a childcare program.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Identify common interaction strategies to help promote a positive classroom environment for young children.
- Describe the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Demonstrate understanding of positive alternatives of timeouts and certain disciplining techniques based on best practices.
- Define differentiated instruction in early childhood education and describe how it may look in the classroom.
- Describe how educators can adapt the Montessori classroom to support children with special needs.
- Give examples of positive guidance in the early childhood classroom.
- Describe the process of creating and communicating rules within the classroom.
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