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6.1 Signature Assignment: by Estela Hernandez Fresno Pacific University

The document discusses positive strategies for helping children cope with their feelings and communicate appropriately, including redirecting, ignoring, and encouraging efforts. Redirecting involves distracting a child from inappropriate behavior using verbal, physical, or visual cues. Ignoring only focuses on the behavior, not the child, and can be used when the behavior is not dangerous. Encouraging efforts involves praising a child's attempts to accept limits and behave helpfully through physical and verbal praise.

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6.1 Signature Assignment: by Estela Hernandez Fresno Pacific University

The document discusses positive strategies for helping children cope with their feelings and communicate appropriately, including redirecting, ignoring, and encouraging efforts. Redirecting involves distracting a child from inappropriate behavior using verbal, physical, or visual cues. Ignoring only focuses on the behavior, not the child, and can be used when the behavior is not dangerous. Encouraging efforts involves praising a child's attempts to accept limits and behave helpfully through physical and verbal praise.

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6.

1 SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT
BY ESTELA HERNANDEZ
FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
OVERVIEW
• POSITIVE STRATEGIES OPEN SUMMARY
• STRATEGIES TO USE
• STRATEGY 1: REDIRECT
• WAYS TO REDIRECT
• STRATEGY 2: IGNORING
• STRATEGY 3: ENCOURAGE EFFORTS
• QUOTE
• SUMMARY
• REFERENCES
POSITIVE
STRATEGIES

•CHILDREN OFTEN NEED INDIVIDUAL


NEEDS FROM ADULTS AND IF THOSE
NEEDS ARE NOT MET IT MAY CAUSE
NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS.
•CHILDREN AT A YOUNG AGE DO NOT
UNDERSTAND HOW TO CONTROL THEIR
EMOTIONS AND MAY BEHAVE
INAPPROPRIATELY TO EXPRESS THEIR
FEELINGS.
•AS EDUCATORS, WE HAVE TO
CONTINUOUSLY THINK ABOUT HOW WE
CAN HELP THOSE CHILDREN BY
VALIDATING THEIR FEELINGS BUT HELP
GUIDE THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSES TO
THEIR FEELINGS.
STRATEGIES TO USE

• REDIRECT
• IGNORING
• ENCOURAGE EFFORTS
REDIRECT

•REDIRECT IS A STRATEGY THAT WORKS AS A DIVERSION.


IF YOUR CHILD IS STUCK ON A SITUATION, “REDIRECT IS A
FORM OF WHICH AN ADULT IMMEDIATELY DOES
SOMETHING TO DISTRACT A CHILD FROM THE FORBIDDEN
OR DANGEROUS ACTIVITY.” (MARION 2019)

•IN AN AUTISM CLASSROOM, WE USE A VARIETY OF


VISUALS TO REDIRECT. FOR EXAMPLE WE HAVE CHOICE
BOARDS OF REINFORCERS AND ASK, “WHAT ARE YOU
WORKING FOR?”. SOMETIMES WE NEED A STRONGER CUE
AND USE A “FIRST, THEN” VISUAL THAT HELPS THE CHILD
STAY ON TASK FOR THEIR REINCFORCER.
WAYS OF REDIRECTING

•VERBAL- GIVE SIMPLE INSTRUCTION TO


DISTRACT THE CHILD FROM INAPPROPRIATE
BEHAVIOR
•PHYSICAL- GENTLE TOUCH TO PREVENT
THE CHILD’S BEHAVIOR
•CUE OR GESTURE- PAIR A VISUAL TOOL
WITH THE INSTRUCTION TO SHOW THE
CHILD WHAT TO DO
•ATTENTION- INVOLVES A CHILD NEAR BY TO
SHOW THE APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR
IGNORING BEHAVIOR

(ONLY WHEN IT IS
APPROPRIATE TO DO SO)
• IGNORING AN INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR IS TRICKY. YOU WANT TO
IGNORE THE SPECIFIC BEHAVIOR, NOT THE CHILD IN GENERAL.
• FOLLOWING CATEGORIES TO IGNORE
• WHINING OR ARGUING
• EFFORTS TO DISTRACT
• EFFORTS TO PULL YOU IN ARGUMENT
• EFFORTS TO MAKE YOU ANGRY (MARION, 2019)

• ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE TOOLS WE USE IN AN AUTISM CLASS IS


THAT WE GIVE CALM DOWN TOOLS IN A CALMING AREA WHEN THEY
ARE BEING AGGRESSIVE. AS LONG AS THE BEHAVIOR IS NOT
DANGEROUS OR HARMFUL TO ANYONE, WE PLAN IGNORE. MEANING
WE ARE PLANNING TO GET THE CHILD BACK TO A CALM STATE.
• CESFEL HAD GREAT TOOLS FOR FEELINGS TO POST IN A CALMING
AREA.
•“CHILDREN NEED MORE THAN LIMITS- THEY ALSO NEED ENCOURAGEMENT
FOR THEIR EFFORTS TO ACCEPT LIMITS AND TO BEHAVE IN A PROSOCIAL
WAY, COOPERATIVELY OR HELPFULLY” (MARION, 2019)

ENCOURAGE •CHILDREN ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DO NOT OFTEN UNDERSTAND “GOOD


EFFORTS JOB”. IN MY CLASS, WE DO A LOT OF PHYSICAL AND VERBAL PRAISE TO
SHOW THEM THEY ARE DOING WELL. REPEATING THE TASK THEY DID WELL
WITH A HIGH FIVE OR A CHEERFUL GESTURE HELPS THE CHILD UNDERSTAND
THAT THEY DOING THE CORRECT TASK OR BEHAVING APPROPRIATELY.
SUMMARY

THERE ARE A VARIETY OF POSITIVE STRATEGIES THAT CAN BE USED TO HELP A


CHILD LEARN TO COPE WITH THEIR FEELINGS AND LEARN TO COMMUNICATE
APPROPRIATELY. OUR JOB AS EDUCATORS IS TO HELP GUIDE THEM THROUGH
DIFFERENT STRATEGIES AND THEORIES. NOT ONE CHILD IS THE SAME AND
THEY DO NOT ALL RESPOND TO EVERY STRATEGY THE SAME WAY, HOWEVER,
KNOWING THERE ARE DIFFERENT TACTICS TO USE WE CAN FIND THE ONE
THAT WORKS FOR EACH OF THEIR NEEDS. ESTABLISHING A RELATIONSHIP
WITH OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND THEM
BETTER. WHEN GIVEN THESE SITUATIONS WE SHOULD SEE THEM AS
OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND GROW.
REFERENCES
MARION, M. (2019). GUIDANCE OF YOUNG CHILDREN (10TH EDITION). BOSTON,
MA: PEARSON
CSEFEL: CENTER ON THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL FOUNDATIONS FOR EARLY
LEARNING (N.A) RETRIEVED ON MARCH 31, 2020 FROM
HTTP://CSEFEL.VANDERBILT.EDU/
REDIRECTING BEHAVIOR (2015). USGOVACF. RETRIEVED ON MARCH 30, 2020,
FROM HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=SSAPGGJOAWM
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OF CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS: TOOLS YOU CAN
USE IN THE PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM (2012) TEACHING
STRATEGIES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. RETRIEVED ON
APRIL 2, 2020, FROM
HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=5E_U6JIMON0
BIBLE VERSES FOR KIDS (2015). RETRIEVED ON APRIL 9, 2020, FROM
HTTPS://WWW.BIBLESTUDYTOOLS.COM/TOPICAL-VERSES/BIBLE-
VERSES-FOR-KIDS/

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