Teachers and Service Providers

Welcome to the TACSEI Teachers and Service Providers Community. Here you will find information and select resources that have been compiled specifically with the needs of teachers, caregivers and service providers in mind. Just as a community changes and grows over time, so will this page as new interactive elements and resources are created and added.

(NOTE: You may need to download the latest version of Adobe Reader for the pdf documents.)

Tools

Creating Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior
This product is made up of a variety of tools including handouts, worksheets, techniques, strategies, visuals and other materials that assist teachers in creating a plan to support young children who are having challenging behavior. Teaching Tools is available for download from this website as a "zip" file, which means that you can download the User's Manual, Routine Based Support Guide, and many handouts, visuals and other materials included in Teaching Tools in one convenient package.
Complete Guide to Positive Behavior Support
Created as a "take-away" tool to accompany the TACSEI Six Steps of PBS (Positive Behavior Support) learning modules, this Word document is a complete reference that outlines the entire PBS process. For your convenience, this comprehensive reference also includes links to all the forms, information sheets and worksheets described in the learning modules as well as websites and resources in easy-to-access sections at the end of the document.

Resources

Scripted Stories for Social Situations: Available from CSEFEL, Scripted Stories for Social Situations are short PowerPoint presentations consisting of a mixture of words and pictures that provide specific information to a child about social situations such as going to preschool, sitting in circle time, staying safe and using words. When children are given information that helps them understand expectations, their problem behavior within that situation is reduced or minimized. These stories can help children to understand social interactions, situations, expectations, social cues, the script of unfamiliar activities, and social rules. Parents, teachers and caregivers can use these simple stories as a tool to prepare the child for a new situation, to address challenging behavior within a setting or situation, or to teach new skills.
Book Nooks: Available from CSEFEL, these easy-to-use guides were created especially for teachers to provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines such as art, singing and circle time. Each Book Nook is comprised of ideas and activities designed around one of the following popular children’s books: Big Al, Glad Monster Sad Monster, Hands Are Not for Hitting, and On Monday When it Rained. Examples of suggested activities include using rhymes to talk about being friends, making masks to help children talk about and identify different feelings, playing a game of what to with hands instead of hitting, and creating art and music using a concept of the day such as sharing. Also be sure to check out CSEFEL's Children's Book List.
Teaching Social Emotional Skills. CSEFEL has compiled a variety of activities, materials and tools to help children promote self-regulation or problem solving. Examples of tools you will find here are handouts that feature emotion faces, the "turtle technique" and feeling charts as well as solution kits to help children come up with solutions around problems such as learning how to share, trade, and ask nicely.

Videos

The videos described below are available on DVD and can be ordered through CSEFEL by completing and submitting this order form.

Promoting Social Emotional Competence was designed to provide a foundation for understanding the Teaching Pyramid as a framework for promoting young children’s social and emotional development and preventing and addressing challenging behavior. This 22-minute video is a perfect way to be introduced to and become familiar with the pyramid framework and is available with both English and Spanish open captioning. View this video online at the CSEFEL website.
Practical Strategies for Teaching Social Emotional Skills. This 28-minute video highlights strategies and approaches that early childhood personnel and families can use to systematically target social emotional supports that build young children’s skills in a variety of areas including making friends, problem solving, asking an adult for help, talking about feelings, and managing their emotions. The strategies rely on a 3-stage approach to supporting young children’s social emotional development by (1) introducing and practicing a skill, (2) building fluency and competency with a skill, and (3) ensuring there is maintenance of a skill. The video provides multiple examples of early childhood personnel demonstrating how to introduce a skill using a variety of tools, practice a skill through planned and unscripted activities, and maintain the skill by recognizing children for using the skill on their own. View this video online at the CSEFEL website.

Web Presentations

Moving Right Along Planning Transitions to Prevent Challenging Behavior
This web presentation, made possible in conjunction with CSEFEL and NAEYC offers a discussion of why challenging behavior occurs during transitions, strategies for planning and implementing more effective transitions, ideas for using transitions to teach social skills and emotional competencies, and a planning process for working with children who continue to have difficulty during transitions. (May, 2008)
View presentation

Websites

TACSEI Pages

Make this Community Yours!

We want to know what you think. Send us your comments and suggestions and tell us what you like and what new features you would like to see added to this community or what topics you would like to see addressed to best meet your needs.

Contact TACSEI

What do you want to do?

What do you want to explore?

Communities to Visit...