Title: Positive Guidance Techniques
1 Positive Guidance Techniques
- Adapted by Dr. Vivian G. Baglien
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2Children believe what we model
3If we model self control they will feel like they
have some control over their day and themselves
4If we take time to hear their concerns and fears
seriously they will come to know we care.
5If we model that learning is fun and engaging
they will come to know that learning is important
6If we listen they learn that we understand them
7If we show compassion and affection they will
come to know that we value who they are
8If we model making good choices they will feel
capable of doing the same.
9If we provide a safe environment they will feel
that they are safe?
10Positive Guidance
- Is based on what we know about the child
- Is based on what we know about child development
- Is administered with the goal of teaching
children self-control and good decision making - Offers children choices
- Leaves childrens self esteem intact
- Employs natural and logical consequences
- Offers consequences known and understood by the
child
- - Employs a system of utilizing the least
confrontational choices whenever and wherever
possible, escalated only when necessary - - Is consistent
- - Takes into consideration situations,
circumstances and individual children - - Is child-centered, capitalizing on a
relationship build on trust and rapport
11Positive Guidance is not
- Punitive
- Administered in anger
- Rigid
- About intimidation, or control for the sake of
control - About being right
12 I have come to the frightening
conclusion that I am the decisive element in the
classroom. Its my personal approach that
creates the climate. Its my daily mood that
makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a
tremendous power to make a childs life
miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture
or an instrument of inspiration. I can
humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
situations it is my response that decides
whether a crisis will be escalated or
de-escalated and a child humanized or
de-humanized. - Haim Ginott
Teachers Oath
13Developmentally AppropriateActivities and
Practices are
- - Based on what we know about how young
children learn - - Relevant to childrens life experiences
- - Based on the childrens current
knowledge and abilities - - Respectful of cultural and individual
differences and learning - styles
- - Responsive to the interests and needs
of the children - - Focused on the learning process, not
the end product - - Thought provoking - stimulating and
challenging the minds of - young children
- - Based on the philosophy that children are
competent and - trustworthy, and can
make good decisions if given the
opportunity
and practice
14 Steps in Problem-Solving
- 1. Have children identify the problem and
feelings - 2. Re-state the problem
- 3. Ask each child for ideas for solutions
- 4. Negotiate until children can agree upon
some sort of compromise - 5. Reinforce