Trainers and Technical Assistance Providers
Welcome to the TACSEI Trainers and Technical Assistance Providers Community. Here you will find information and select resources that have been compiled specifically with the needs of T and TA 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.
Resources
DEC Toolkits?
Training Modules Supplements
Program-wide adoption training
De-escalation procedures training
Training Materials
The following presentations were created for individuals to use in their own programs.
Impact and Prevalence
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Developed by Matt Timm and Lise Fox
This presentation discusses the prevalence of social emotional issues and challenging behaviors in preschoolers as well as the impact that these issues have on children later in life if left untreated.
Accompanying Handouts for Trainers:
Linking Social Development and School Readiness to Behavior
Challenging Behavior Fact Sheet
Effective Practices for Preventing and Addressing Young Children's Challenging Behaviors
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Developed by Mary Louise Hemmeter
Accompanying Handout for Trainers:
Program Practices for Promoting the Social Development of Young Children and Addressing Challenging Behavior
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 availalable 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.
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)
Resources
- Positive Beginnings Training Modules
Six modules that offer inservice and preservice educators materials to provide training to early interventionists, early educators, and related service professionals in the Positive Behavior Support process. - CSEFEL What Works Briefs
Summaries of effective practices for supporting children's social-emotional development and preventing challenging behaviors. The Briefs describe practical strategies, provide references to more information about the practice, and include a one-page handout that highlights the major points of the Brief. - CSEFEL Training Modules
Available both for preschoolers or infants and toddlers, these modules were designed based on input gathered during focus groups with program administrators, T/TA providers, early educators, and family members about the types and content of training that would be most useful in addressing the social-emotional needs of young children. The content of the modules is consistent with evidence-based practices identified through a thorough review of the literature. - CSEFEL What Works Brief Training Kits
Based on CSEFEL's popular What Works Briefs, The What Works Brief Training Kits are short training packages that include PowerPoint slides with accompanying note pages, activities, and handouts which provide a trainer with the materials needed to conduct a short staff development program on a focused topic.
TACSEI Pages
- Learn About the Pyramid Model
- Locate Training Opportunities
- Positive Behavior Support
- Child Care Technical Assistance Network Links
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