Families
Welcome to the TACSEI Families Community. Here you will find information and select resources that have been compiled specifically with the needs of familes 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.
Resources
Positive Solutions for Families
This four-page brochure provides parents with eight practical tips they can use when their young children exhibit challenging behavior. Each tip includes a brief explanation and an example to show parents how they might use the specific approach with their own family in everyday life. This product is also available in Spanish.
Teaching Your Child to: Identify and Express Emotions
Young children deal with many of the same emotions adults do. Children get angry, sad, frustrated, nervous, happy, or embarrassed, but they often do not have the words to talk about how they are feeling. Instead, they sometimes act out these emotions in very physical and inappropriate ways. This four-page handout describes specific steps and strategies adults can use to help children express themselves in ways that are appropriate. (CSEFEL Resource)
Teaching Your Child to: Cooperate with Requests
Young children can learn to follow adult expectations, including performing simple chores, if the expectations are developmentally appropriate (meaning they match what can be expected for children at that age) and are taught to the child. This four-page handout provides information on what you might expect from your preschooler and some tips for helping your child learn and follow your requests. (CSEFEL Resource)
What Works Brief 15: Using Choice and Preference to Promote Improved Behavior
Offering choices to children involves allowing them to indicate their preference at specific points in time and throughout their day and then giving them access to the items or activities they choose. This Brief explains why it is important to provide children with choices and provides examples of how teachers, parents, and other caregivers can do so to help children improve their behavior. (CSEFEL Resource)
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What Works Brief 16: Fathers and Father-Figures: Their Important Role in Children’s Social and Emotional Development
There are several ways to conceptualize fathers’ impact on children. This Brief provides one way that emphasizes three areas to consider when thinking about father involvement: engagement and interaction; availability and accessibility; and day-to-day care. (CSEFEL Resource)
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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.
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.
Web Presentations
- Moving Right Along Planning Transitions to Prevent Challenging Behavior
This web presentation 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)
Websites
- National Head Start Association (NHSA)
- Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER)
- Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children (DEC)
TACSEI Pages
- Learn About the Pyramid Model
- Challenging Behaviors Links
- Early Childhood and Early Intervention Links
- Improving Outcomes for Children and Families Links
- Family Support and Parenting Links
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