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Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education 8th Edition George S. Morrison

Chapter 12

Guiding Children’s Behavior

Developed by:

Kevin M. Dartt

Walden University

Joyce E. Myers

University of Texas Arlington

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Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education, 8e George S. Morrison

Learning Outcomes

Identify why it is important for you to know how to guide children’s behavior.
Explain the key foundational practices of guiding behavior in a community of learners.
Describe the Social Constructivists approach guiding children’s behavior.
Summarize the twelve steps for guiding behavior.

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Why Guide Children’s Behavior?

Help children learn to guide their own behavior

Lays the foundation for lifelong responsible and productive living

Intervention for future behavior problems

Culturally and socially meaningful accomplishment

Develop self-regulation

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Key Foundational Practices
of Learning Communities

Cooperative living and learning

Morning meetings

Greet each child each day

Respect for children

Time and opportunity to talk about behavior and develop strategies for guiding their behavior

Character education as a means of promoting responsible behavior

Civility

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The Social Constructivist Approach:
Piaget and Vygotsky

Children construct or build a set of behaviors

Guide behavior in the zone of proximal development

Scaffolding applied to guiding behavior

Adult/child discourse in guiding behavior

Private speech and self-guided behavior

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Essential Steps to
Guiding Children’s Behavior

Step 1: Plan

Step 2: Be explicit

Step 3: Model behaviors

Step 4: Role play

Step 5: Develop classroom rules

Step 6: Reinforce

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Twelve Steps for Guiding Behavior

Step 1-Use constructivist guidance guidelines
Scaffolding
Class discussion
Adult-child discourse
Step 2-Guide the whole child

Step 3-Know and use DAP

Step 4-Meet child’s needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Essential Steps to
Guiding Children’s Behavior

Step 5-Help build new behaviors
Locus of control
Verbal and non-verbal
Step 6-Empower children
Responsibilities
Choices
Support
Step 7-Establish appropriate expectations
Set limits
Rules

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Essential Steps to
Guiding Children’s Behavior

Step 8-Arrange and modify classroom environment
Step 9-Model appropriate behavior
Step 10-Avoid problems
Step 11-Partnership with parent, families, and others
Step 12-Use and teach conflict management

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Positive Reinforcement

Tangible reinforcement
Activity-based reinforcement
Token reinforcement
Social reinforcement
Natural reinforcement

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