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UPDATED User's Manual
The User’s Manual provides you with an overview of the entire contents of the Teaching Tools. This manual presents the steps you will take to use the Teaching Tools materials.
Folder 1 - Getting Started: Tips and Forms
The “Getting Started” guides, tips, and forms assist with the first steps in supporting young children with challenging behavior. They offer ideas for establishing a good foundation in the classroom, gathering information, selecting strategies, and generating a support plan.
- File A – Toolkit Tips
- File B – Communication is Key
- File C - “My Teacher Wants to Know” questionnaire
File C - “My Teacher Wants to Know” questionnaire - File D – My Teacher Has Observed
File D – My Teacher Has Observed - File E – Events and Functions Associated with Problem Behavior
File E – Events and Functions Associated with Problem Behavior - File F – Daily Routine
File F – Daily Routine - File G – Routine Based Support Guide
- File H – Teacher’s Support Planning Sheet
File H – Teacher’s Support Planning Sheet - File I – Sample Rating Scale 1
File I – Sample Rating Scale 1 - File J – Sample Rating Scale 2
File J – Sample Rating Scale 2 - File K – Sample Implementation Checklist
File K – Sample Implementation Checklist
Folder 2 – Buddy System Tips
The Buddy System tip sheet and article about peer buddies provide ideas for using a peer buddy system to support the child with challenging behavior while adjusting to the new setting.
Folder 3 – Teacher Tools
The Teacher Tools folder contains visual representation for common classroom rules and small, medium and large stop signs for helping children know what areas are off limits.
- File A – Classroom Rules
- File B – Stop Signs (big, medium, small)
Folder 4 – Turtle Technique
The Turtle Technique is a method of teaching young children strategies for coping with anger, disappointment, and frustration. This folder contains an article about anger control, visuals (small and large) for the turtle technique steps, and a scripted story.
- File A – Helping Young Children Control Anger and Handle Disappointment (CSEFEL article)
- File B – Turtle Technique
- File C – “Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think” Scripted Story
Folder 5 – Visual Strategies
This folder begins with the How to Make a Visual Schedule tip sheet, a rationale and key points for using the visual strategies. In addition, there are visual schedules, choice boards, cue cards, and activity sequences. A variety of pictured examples are provided to help teachers develop their own visual supports.
- File A – Visual Strategies Tip Sheet
- File B – How to Make a Visual Schedule
- File C – Classroom Visual Schedule
- File D - Centers (choice board, bracelets, necklaces, signs)
- File E – Arrival Mini Schedule
- File F – First-Then Board
- File G – Cue Cards
- File H – Activity Sequence Visual (potty, wash hands)
- File I –Sample Visuals
Folder 6 – Scripted Stories
This folder contains Scripted Story Tips. Scripted stories help children understand a social situation by describing the situation, what the child needs to do, and how others feel when the child exhibits the inappropriate behavior or desired behavior.
- File A – Scripted Stories for Social Situations Tips
- File B – “I Go To Preschool” Scripted Story (car and bus versions)
- File C – “I Can Use My Words” Scripted Story
Folder 7 – Circle Time Tips
The Circle Time folder focuses on visual strategies for helping children understand circle time. This folder includes a scripted story about circle time, rules for circle, and a mini schedule for understanding and predicting the activities of circle time.
- File A – “What Do We Do in Circle?” Scripted Story
- File B – Circle Rules
- File C – Circle Mini Schedule
Folder 8 – Feeling Vocabulary
The Feeling Vocabulary folder contains an article about enhancing young children’s emotional vocabulary. The article provides a variety of strategies to support children around the notion of appropriately expressing feelings. Some of the ideas discussed in the article are provided to you in the files within this folder: visuals depicting a variety of emotions, a feeling wheel, and a feeling chart. The feeling visuals can prompt appropriate emotional expression.
- File A – Enhancing Emotional Vocabulary in Young Children (CSEFEL article)
- File B – Feeling Faces (black and white version)
- File C – Feeling Faces (colored version)
- File D – Spanish Feeling Faces
- File E – Feeling Wheel
- File F – Feeling Chart
Folder 9 – Home Kit
The Home Strategies help link home and school. The questionnaire offers critical information about the child (see “Getting Started” section of this manual). The “Getting Ready for School” visual helps families with the morning routine and prepare for the transition to school. A scripted story is provided to help children with first time transitions to school. “Use Positive Words” offers families guidance for responding to problem behavior by emphasizing what to do versus what not to do.
- File A – Home Kit Description and Contents List
- File B – “My Teacher Wants to Know” Questionnaire
- File C – “I Go To Preschool” Scripted Story (car and bus versions)
- File D – “Getting Ready for School” Visual Mini Schedule
- File E – Use Positive Words
Supplemental Materials
The “Supplemental Materials” folder contains folder labels and binder inserts, should you decide to print the contents of the Toolkits to construct your own kit. The labels and binder inserts provide you with a way to organize the materials.
- File A – Folder Labels (files, folder pockets, kit box)
- File B – Storage Binders
- File C – CD Label (jpeg image, 5824 Avery sticker label)
