Region A Partnership for Children

Promoting Social Emotional Competence

Worried about children with ongoing and serious behavior problems in your class?

Pulling your hair out over disruption, arguing, and defiance?

Wondering how to improve your class's transitions, compliance with rules, and naptime? Or how you can better communicate with parents?

We offer on-site training and technical assistance to promote positive social and emotional behavior in young children.

In this project, early childhood teachers or caregivers:

* Receive up to four hours training and technical assistance once a week for 6-12 weeks at their classroom or home program;

* Learn how to understand the meaning of specific child behavior in order to prevent or intervene with the behavior;

* Plan and practice teaching strategies to change challenging classroom behavior;

* Apply what they are learning to solve real child behavior problems that occur in the classroom or in training videos;

* Get Divsion of Child Development Contact Hour Credits (CHC) for participation in training.

The Project Consultant spends time on-site, observing children's activity and advising in classsrooms, and providing group training and topical discussion during children's naptime or another convenient time.

He shares materials of the Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL), the Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI), and Zero to Three through printed handouts and visual presentations with video. He also provides technical assistance by demonstrating, modeling, and sharing resource materials that can help teachers in their relationships with children, designing environments, targeted teaching strategies, and individual child interventions.

If you're interested contact Gene Perrotta (gene@regionakids.org), Project Consultant, at 828-293-9183 or 828-506-0961.

Links

Teaching your child to become independent with daily routines article

Intensive Training and Technical Assistance article

The "What to do When..." series:

Helping a Child with Common Routines

Helping a Child to Express Needs or Wants

Helping a Child to Follow Instructions

Helpng a Child to Interact with Peers

Helping a Child to Learn Alternatives to Biting

Helping a Child with Transitions

Communicating with Parents

Managing a Child's Anger or Disappointment

Find many “state of the art” ideas and methods from excellent resources related to healthy social emotional development and well being under Useful Links (right side bar).

Worth Checking Out!
Click on the link for the Center on Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) and check out the six-session series titled "Positive Solutions for Families".

Overview of "Positive Solutions for Families" sessions
The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) has developed an evidence-based, user-friendly parent training series of six sessions to help professionals working with parents to promote positive and effective parenting behaviors in order to promote children’s social and emotional development and address the challenging behavior and mental health needs of children in child care and Head Start programs.

About the Content
The training materials provide information for families on how to promote children’s social and emotional skills, understand their problem behavior, and use positive approaches to help children learn appropriate behavior. The trainings are designed to give parents general information on key strategies that may be used with all children. Sessions are not designed to offer parents specific advice for their child’s individual issues. Facilitators of the training session should be knowledgeable about local agencies and service providers that may be able to assist families who have complex support needs or children with problem behavior that requires the guidance of a professional. In the last session, parents will be offered a routine guide that offers parents advice for supporting their children across common family routines.