- In your responses, try to make that important connection you will soon need to make with your coworkers and the families in your facility. Share what you like about their behavioral intervention and what you would do differently or add to their intervention.
PEERS POST:
Howdy, everybody!
My name is Beth. I am from Ohio. I have been married to the same man for 28 years. He is a house dad for a group home. I have one married daughter who has blessed us with a grand Rat (a guinea pig…closest thing I have to a grandbaby!) My 16-year-old son is hilarious! He is my smile. God has given him an incredible sense of humor. I have a 14-year-old deaf cockapoo and shared custody of the classroom guinea pig.
I potty train for a living!! I am an Early Head Start teacher. I work inner city at a non-profit agency. Right now, I have 5 boys and 2 girls in my class. I am incredibly blessed to have an amazing co-teacher! We do our best to redirect. We use several strategies in our classroom. Some of the calming techniques are from Conscious Discipline and some have been developed to help a particular student.
The picture I chose was of the toddler crying. It looks like he is outside. I would sit next to him and try to figure out why he is crying. There are so many situations that it could be…bee sting or bonk as he was running? If this is the cause of the tears, I would give lovin’s, check him over to make sure he is okay, and then ask him to join me in a marching song. If he is mad due to something a ‘friend’ did, we could help him be “Calm like Pooh” this is one of my favorite strategies – using the 100-acre wood friends to help them identify their feelings. Pooh is always calm. We may find the ‘friend’ and have a chat, all of us together. I may have to give the toddlers the words to use, but I would try to encourage them in a conversation. Once we are all better, I would start the We Are the Dinosaurs song to get things moving again.
