Challenging Behavior Tips for Families
Learn and share useful tips for promoting positive behavior during common family activities and routines that can sometimes be challenging.
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Children with Disabilities
Young children vary in their skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and abilities. Effective teaching requires individualized teaching and chances to learn for all children to access, participate, and thrive in early learning settings. Individualizing for children who need more support helps ensure effective teaching for children with disabilities and other special needs across all the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains. Using children’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals is part of effective teaching, individualizing, and creating environments to support children’s positive outcomes.
Individualized Instructional Strategies
Watch these short videos to learn about individualized instructional strategies, such as trial teaching and prompts, to help children with special needs obtain the skills and concepts they are trying to learn.
Discrete Trial
Watch this example of an educator using a discrete trial to teach a child spatial concepts.
Gestural Prompt
In this clip, the educator uses a gesture as a hint or prompt to help the child respond correctly to the educator’s request
Error Correction
See what to do when a child makes a mistake. Watch the educator give additional support to help the child respond correctly the second time
Graduated Guidance
This clip shows an educator using graduated guidance to help a child learn to pedal a bike. Watch how she increases or decreases her level of support depending on what the child needs.
Modeling
In this clip, an educator uses modeling as well as verbal instructions to help a child engage in pretend play.
Time Delay and Expectant Look
Time delay is an effective strategy to help young children use words to request an object or action. Watch how waiting a few seconds with an expectant look encourages the child to talk.
Fragile X Syndrome
Learn about the characteristics and diagnosis of Fragile X syndrome and resources to support children and families with this inherited genetic disorder.
What Instructional Procedures Do You See?
Notice how educators give learning opportunities to individual children during everyday activities and routines.
