Enhancing Positive Behavior Skills

							                                  Enhancing
                           Positive Behavior Skills
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 ERF Professional Development
             January 9th, 2009

                Younwoo Lee
                                 Enhancing
                           Social/Emotional Skills

                        Individualized
                           Intensive
                         Interventions


                   Social Emotional
                  Teaching Strategies

           Supportive Environments

     Building Positive Relationships
       with Children and Families
(Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning)
                      Three Stages of teaching
                            social skills



1. Show and Tell
   : Acquisition – new skill or concept
2. Practice Makes Perfect
   : Fluency – the ability to immediately use the skill or
        concept without a prompt
3. You Got It!
   : Maintenance – continuing to use the skill or concept
        over time
   : Generalization – applying the skill or concept to new
        situations, people, activities, and settings
                         Acquisition Stage
                          : Show and Tell




•   Explain concretely
•   Demonstrate
•   Link to other ideas or concepts
•   Examples and non-examples
•   Encourage child when learning
•   Skill or concept can be easily lost at this
    stage…encourage, encourage, encourage
                             Fluency
                    : Practice Makes Perfect




• Offer multiple opportunities to practice
• Help child link concept or skill to others
• Prompt the child to use the skill or concept in
  new situations
• Elaborate on the skill or concept
                      Teaching Strategies




• Adult Modeling           • Songs
• Modeling with            • Prompts
  Puppets                  • Reinforcements
• Working with Peer        • Use of Games
  Partners                 • Use of Children’s
                             Literature
• Fingerplays
                           • Social Stories
• Flannel Board
  Activities
                            Maintenance and
                             Generalization
                              : You Got it!



• Provide opportunities to use the skill or concept in new
  situations or with new people
• Provide opportunities within a variety of activities and
  in new applications
• Comment on the child’s ability to maintain the skill and
  generalize it’s use
                  Promoting maintenance &
                    generalization of skills



• Consistent use of strategies across all
  teachers
• Numerous repetition across daily routines
• Positive descriptive feedback on child’s
  appropriate behavior
• Provide a “fun” atmosphere
                                  Steps to Teaching
                                : Throughout the Day



•   Identify the skill you want to teach
•   Teach the social skills concept –during large group, small
    group and provide individualized instruction for children who
    need it
•   Give children opportunities to practice – role play, prompting
    children through an interaction, embedding instruction into
    daily routines
•   Model the behaviors in everyday interactions
•   Reinforce the behavior in context
•   Involve children in talking about the skills – individually or in a
    group
                                Remember 4P’s!




• Practice - Practice an appropriate behavior or skill
• Praise - Praise or reward the appropriate behavior or skill
• Point Out - Point out the appropriate behavior of other
  children

• Prompt - Prompt when the behavior would be appropriate
      * 4P’s approach by Christophersen & Mortweet, 2003
  Social skills that we picked

Goal 1
• Following directions
• Listening
• Sharing

Goal 2
• Showing Affection
• Knowing your feelings
• Accepting to say no!
• Being First
• Good Manners
• Trying when it is hard
• Saying thank you
         Strategies that we picked



• Model, encourage to use nice words
• Have children choose special friend
• Discuss about how to express feelings
• Practice different emotions with faces
• Post pictures of feelings
• Role play, Finger plays, Songs, Stories,
  Books, Puzzles
• Positive feedback, praises, reinforcement
      Examples of great social strategies
        that we use in our classroom




• Modeling
• Reinforcing positive behavior
• Transition activity (song, listening rap, clapping names)
• Who is ready?
• Calm down activity
• Transition to small group (Riding on a bus)
• Transition during small group
• Taking a turn
• Redirecting behavior
• Understanding consequences
                 Let’s work on maintenance &
                    generalization process




• Each classroom teachers discuss about the ways to
  enhance maintenance and generalization of two
  social skills that already picked.

• Make any changes in sections
   Acquisition thorough show & tell
   Fluency through practicing
   Maintenance & Generalization
              Websites

Center on the Social and Emotional
Foundations for Early Learning
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/

Center for Evidence Based Practice
:Young children with challenging behavior
http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/

Positive Approaches to Challenging Behavior
http://cehd.umn.edu/ceed/projects/preschoolbe
havior/default.html