Title: Apply developmentally appropriate guidance (e.g., redirection, good planning, and positive reinforcement).
Course: Early Childhood, Education, and Services II (19153-II) > Section: Promoting Physical, Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development

Application includes constructing and implementing

- classroom rules
- classroom management procedures
- direct/indirect guidance skills (e.g., self-esteem, cultural awareness, effective communication)
- positive reinforcements (e.g., verbal encouragement, body language, eye contact).

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Why is it important to have classroom rules?
- What is positive guidance?
- How does practicing positive guidance techniques allow children to learn and grow?
- What communication and guidance techniques are most effective with different age groups?
- What management procedures are important to implement in the classroom?
- What are ways to teach rules and procedures?

Communication

- How should policies regarding positive guidance be communicated to staff, children, and parents?
- How should activities be scheduled to maximize positive experiences for young children?
- What are some verbal and nonverbal methods and techniques caregivers can use to foster positive adult-child communication?

Leadership

- What is the expected outcome when an early childhood setting embraces the theory of positive guidance?

Management

- What are some ways that a child can be redirected?