Positive behaviors are social, emotional, and communicative skills and behaviors used by children that enable them to engage in and navigate their learning and social environments. These include skills to regulate their emotions, solve problems, and develop and sustain relationships. Providing intentional instruction on how to use positive behaviors is a critical part of preventing challenging behavior and supporting children who engage in challenging behaviors. These resources help education staff learn about and use evidence-based strategies and supports to help children learn positive behaviors.
Infants and toddlers rely on supportive relationships to learn how to recognize problems and find solutions. Discuss practical strategies to foster problem-solving and relationship-building skills with infants and toddlers.
Children are born ready to solve problems, and they rely on supportive relationships to learn how to recognize a problem and find a solution. Discuss practical strategies to foster problem-solving and relationship-building skills in preschoolers.
Join us as we explore ways to create learning environments, routines, and activities that engage and promote children's learning and positive behaviors.
In this Teacher Time episode, explore how teachers and child care providers can help prevent challenging behaviors by supporting children’s development of emotional literacy, communication, and self-regulation skills.
Learn ways teachers and family child care providers can use the Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) framework to build relationships with the children in their care.
In this Parallel Play episode, learn ways to support toddlers in their efforts to use and explore materials with one another.
Explore how teachers and family child care providers can support emotional literacy in infants and toddlers. Identify practical strategies for helping infants and toddlers regulate their emotions.
Healthy social and emotional development in the infant and toddler years is foundational to healthy development in all other areas. Research shows that fostering positive relationships is key to healthy development.
Learn positive proactive approaches to challenging behaviors that focus on building social and emotional skills with infants and toddlers.
Learn positive proactive approaches to challenging behaviors that focus on building social and emotional skills with preschool children.