ECE II
Objective 6.02
Infer response strategies for
behavior problems
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• What are some general guides for
responding to problem behaviors?
• What response strategies should be used
for specific behavior problems?
6.02 Learning Log
• Close your eyes and think back on a time when you
got caught misbehaving.
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What did you do?
How was the misbehavior handled?
Did the response teach you not to do it again?
Did the response teach you to think about what you did?
• Share and discuss.
• Note that the response a child receives when he/she does something
“wrong” helps determine whether the child understands what was done
wrong and will repeat the behavior.
General Guides for Responding to
Inappropriate Behaviors
• Appendix 6.02A
• Directions:
– Use this graphic organizer to take notes about
what each of the general guides for responding
to inappropriate behaviors means.
– Record key phrases and examples as well as
your own paraphrasing and questions.
General Guides for Responding to
Inappropriate Behaviors
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Ignore minor misbehaviors
Offer choices
Coach appropriate behaviors
Distract and redirect
Response Strategies for Specific Behavior Problems
Response Strategies
Behavior Problems
Negativism
 Accept negative behaviors except those that violate health
and safety rules
 Communicate in words and tone that you expect
cooperation
 Give the child time; avoid hurrying him/her
Stealing
 Remember that preschoolers do not understand mine and
yours
 Avoid lecturing or asking why the child took something
 Make the child return what was taken
 Set a good example by respecting others’ property rights
 Minimize opportunities for stealing
 Consider a policy that toys may not be brought from
home
Anger
Biting
Discourage hurting behaviors
Stop young children immediately who try to hit
one another
Hold the child’s hand while you say why you are
doing so
Ignore outbursts if there is no threat to anyone’s
safety
Redirect anger through activities such as fingerpainting
Provide noise outlets (drums, music) to relieve
strong feelings
Keep playtime simple for children who bite
Limit the number of children who play with those
who bite or isolate biters
Respond quickly and use comments to prevent
biting
Never allow children to bite back
Tattling
Ignore tattling whenever possible
Encourage tattlers to tell other children what they
need to say
Provide daily one-on-one time for listening
Exploring the
body
Do not shame children; guide them away from
public displays
Firmly tell child in private that behavior is
inappropriate
Thumb-sucking
Give the child a pacifier
Avoid pulling the thumb out of the mouth
abruptly; accept and ignore it
Fear
Understand children’s fears and take steps to help
them be less afraid
Ignore negative words and actions when they are
the result of fear
“Handling Inappropriate Behavior”
• Study the information in Section 11-2 “Handling Inappropriate
Behavior,” Child and Adult Care Professionals to prepare to
discuss meanings of four general guides for responding to
inappropriate behavior:
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Ignore minor misbehaviors
Offer choices
Coach appropriate behaviors
Distract and redirect.
• Take notes in Appendix 6.02A, “General Guides for
Responding to Inappropriate Behaviors.”
• Volunteer to role play the scenarios in Appendix 6.02B: “Role
Play Responses to Inappropriate Behaviors.”
– After role playing, identify which response to inappropriate behavior was
being role played and draw a logical conclusion of why they thought the
response was appropriate for the child’s misbehavior
“Responses to Inappropriate
Behavior Timeline”
• Using Appendix 6.02C, talk with parents/other adults
about ways they were disciplined as children.
• On each flag, record the year the person was born
and most frequent response to inappropriate behavior
used with them as children.
• The next time in class, we will discuss parents’
comments, cut out flags, and make a timeline to
display in chronological order.
– Discuss how responses to inappropriate behavior have
changed over time and possible reasons for this.
Let’s review
• What are the 8 behavior problems
introduced in 6.01?
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Negativism
Stealing
Anger
Biting
Tattling
Exploring the body
Thumb-sucking
Fear
Role Play Responses to
Inappropriate Behaviors
• Appendix 6.02B
• Directions:
– Have volunteers for each role
play meet to read through the
scenario and be sure they
understand it.
– Take a few minutes to plan the
role play.
– Students who are not
presenting role plays should
look through their notes to
better familiarize themselves
with the four ways to respond
to inappropriate behaviors
• Scenario 1
– “Ignore minor misbehaviors”
• Scenario 2
– “Offer choices”
• Scenario 3
– “Coach appropriate
behaviors”
• Scenario 4
– “Distract and redirect”
Responses to Inappropriate
Behaviors Timeline
• Appendix 6.02C
• Directions:
– Interview your parents or two other adults.
– Find out what years they were born and write each
year on the wide end of one of the flags.
– In the middle of the flag write the method of discipline
that was used most frequently with them when they
misbehaved as children.
– Cut your two flags apart and be prepared tomorrow in
class to report on the comments you received from
this interview and to post your flags by year in
chronological order in the class timeline.
Inappropriate Behavior Cards
• Appendix 6.02D
• Directions:
– Volunteer to choose a card at random and act
out the meaning of the word/term without talking.
– The student who guesses the word/term
correctly will act out the next term.
– Continue play until all words have been used.
“Inappropriate Behavior”
• Review meanings of terms by
using the cards in Appendix
6.02D & E to play a game of
Charades with the words and
terms.
Response Strategy Organizer
• Appendix 6.02F
• Directions:
– Paired with a partner, you will discuss each
specific behavior problem, record response
strategies in this organizer.
– Place the organizer in your notebook to use
for future study and activities.
“What’s Your Conclusion?”
• Appendix 6.02G
• Directions:
– The class will be divided into 4 groups.
– Read each scenario and solve the problem on
each cap by using response strategies for
behavior problems you have learned.
– Write solutions beside or on the back of each
cap.
– Be prepared to report to the class as a group
on two assigned scenarios.
Boxes for Problem Behaviors
• Appendix 6.02H
• Directions:
– For each set of response strategies grouped
around each box, write the specific behavior
problem on the line in the box for which the
strategies are appropriate.
– Write beside each strategy one conclusion you’ve
drawn about why each response strategy works
for that behavior.
Write It and Act It Out
• Appendix 6.02J
• Directions:
– Write a brief scenario on the “page” below about
a child who displays a problem behavior.
– In the scenario, show how the parent or other
caregiver responded to the behavior, and what
happened next.
– Be prepared to have other class members help
you act out the scenario and then draw their
own conclusions about whether the response of
the caregiver was appropriate, and why or why
not.
ECE II
Objective 6.02
Response Strategies for Behavior
Problems
Key Terms -15
Use fill in the blank handout
General Guides for Responding
to Inappropriate Behaviors
minor misbehavior
• Behavior that is not very bad
Choices
• The act of choosing; selection
coach appropriate behavior
• Guide correct behavior
distraction and redirection
• Distraction is best for infants one object is
given to help them forget about something
that is unsafe.
• Redirection is for preschoolers.
– It involves steering a child’s behavior to a
different more acceptable activity that still meets
the child’s basic needs.
Response Strategies for
Specific Behavior
Problems
Violate
• To disregard or fail to respect
property rights
• Being entitled to, or able to expect, the
right to own something and be able to
decide how and when it is used
Tone
• A quality of a person’s voice that can
change the meaning of words the person
speaks
Lecturing
• Talking to a person, rather than talking and
listening alternately, often to criticize or
give directions
ignore
• To pay no attention, to act as though
something is not there
outburst
• A sudden, unexpected behavior, action, or
words
Outlet
• A vent for an emotion or strong feeling
Pacifier
• An object used to satisfy the urge to suck
in infants; often used to keep infants
content and to minimize thumb sucking
physical discipline
• Any form of discipline that affects a child’s
body
– Biting
– Shaking
– Pushing
– Shoving
– Pinching
– Kicking
– Withholding food
corporal punishment
• Any form of physical discipline that injures
or inflicts pain upon the body of a child
– Spanking
– slapping, etc.
physical restraint
• Any method used to keep a child in place
– Tying
– Binding
– Locking in a room
– Putting in high chair, crib or play pen
1 Sample Test Question
Two-year-old Todd is hitting a fourteen-month-old
baby with a stuffed animal, and the baby is crying
loudly.
What should the teacher do?
A. Hold Todd’s hand and explain to him that he is
scaring the baby
B. Make Todd sit in a corner until he can behave
himself
C. Nothing, because a stuffed animal will not harm
a baby
D. Tell Todd to go play with older children and stay
away from the infants
Answer: A