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Exploring Self-Regulation With 3 To 5 Year Olds
Presented by Tere Bowen-Irish, OTR/L
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Course: #35164Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Self-regulation for 3–5-year-olds can be quite variable. As we know, self-regulation skills help kids navigate their environments, regardless of age. This course will explore self-regulation for little ones just starting their first school experience. Learning to wait, responding calmly, being able to listen, and direction following are all part of building the foundational skills of self-regulation. Let’s help them get a great start!

Tame Challenging Behavior PAINS, in partnership with Region 9 Head Start Association
Presented by Tonya R. Hayes, MEd, Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
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Course: #32512Level: Intermediate2 Hours
Learn how to implement five powerful strategies that nurturing and responsive teachers use to guide and support children’s behavior. This course is presented in partnership with Region 9 Head Start Association's Training West.

When It Doesn't Go According to Plan...Behavior Has Meaning, in partnership with Region 9 Head Start Association
Presented by Dana Staser, BA
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Course: #32474Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Learn about challenging child behaviors, the possible meaning behind these behaviors, and how to move past assumptions to support children’s social/emotional competency. Receive reflective strategies empowering you to meet children’s social/emotional needs. This course is presented in partnership with Region 9 Head Start Association's Training West.

Creating Connections to Better Understand Challenging Behavior in Children
Presented by Tara Warwick, MS, OTR/L
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Course: #32435Level: Intermediate2 Hours
Learn preventative strategies and accommodations for preventing challenging behaviors, as well as how to teach children effective replacement skills. Also, learn about the cycle of behavior escalation and de-escalation.

Let’s Talk: Emotional Literacy and Social Skills Through Puppetry
Presented by Julia Luckenbill, MA
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Course: #32422Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Explore the use of puppets to teach children social and emotional skills. Learn how to author a short puppet script and link it to your program’s learning objectives for the children.

Understanding Challenging Behaviors and Building Social-Emotional Skills in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers, in partnership with Region 9 Head Start Association
Presented by Jess Bernal, MA, LMFT
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Course: #32219Level: Intermediate1 Hour
This course will increase understanding of brain development and help guide early childhood professionals to use the best interventions to increase brain development and competency in the areas of self-regulation and social-emotional growth while reducing challenging behaviors. This course is presented in partnership with Region 9 Head Start Association's Training West.

Understanding Challenging Behaviors: Practical Tools and Research
Presented by Kelly Gfroerer, PhD, LPC
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Course: #31862Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Better understand and respond to common challenging behaviors of young children. Proactive tools based on theory and research will be shared to help support building a classroom community where children feel belonging and are motivated to cooperate.

Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers: Alternatives to Rewards and Punishment
Presented by Kelly Gfroerer, PhD, LPC
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Course: #31644Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Learn Positive Discipline tools for teachers in early childhood education. Learn how effective discipline, rather than rewards and punishment, results in teaching young children self-regulation, problem-solving, and other important life skills.

You Can Become a Biting Solution Expert!
Presented by Lisa Poelle, MA
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Course: #31794Level: Intermediate1 Hour
Learn about a proven, problem-solving approach to intervening more effectively in habitual biting situations. Learn how to prevent biting through making changes in your own behavior, the classroom environment, and your expectations of the children.

Introduction to FLIP IT! - Transforming Challenging Behavior in Your Early Childhood Program
Presented by Rachel Wagner, MSW
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Course: #31738Level: Intermediate1 Hour
FLIP IT is a strategy that offers a simple, kind, strength-based, commonsense, and effective four-step process to address children’s day to day challenging behaviors. The FLIP IT mnemonic stands for F – Feelings, L – Limits, I – Inquiries, and P – Prompts.

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