Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Settings: Creating a Place for All Children

• understand the needs of individual families and foster strong partnerships with them
• design classrooms with customized supports for children with challenging behaviors, from establishing schedules and setting limits to developing curricula and designing the classroom space
• address specific behavioral challenges during selected times in the daily schedule—group, nap, play, lunch, and more
• pinpoint each student's challenges and needs and develop appropriate informal interventions
• decide if and when a formal intervention plan is needed and collaborate with other members of the team—including therapists, administrative personnel, parents, and classroom aides—to develop and implement the plan
• evaluate the intervention plan for consistency, ease of use, acceptability, and effectiveness, making revisions if necessary
• plan for a crisis and decide whether to seek outside support

Filled with classroom-based strategies for working with students with or without disabilities, realistic vignettes, and checklists that help readers assess their current practices and implement the suggested strategies, this book gives early childhood teams invaluable guidance on working with children with challenging behavior and building positive relationships with their families.

• Language Development: Understanding Language Diversity in the Classroom
• Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing and Responding Effectively (4th Edition)
• The Exceptional Child: Inclusion in Early Childhood Education
• Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Birth to Age Eight (7th Edition)
• To Teach: The Journey, in Comics
• Rethinking Early Childhood Education
• Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
• How the Brain Learns Mathematics
• Science Stories: Science Methods for Elementary and Middle School Teachers