Understanding Behaviour Management by Occupational Therapist

Name: Understanding Behaviour Management by Occupational Therapist
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Learn how to understand children and their behaviour

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Created byLisa Shchyhel

Last updated 12/2023

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What you'll learn

First we will identify the major milestones of children from 2 to 5 years old
Learn about behaviour and behaviour theory
Types and Examples of Challenging Behaviours
Learn about Behaviour Management and their Approaches
Understand which approach can help you to face a child having behaviour difficulties
Understand why children behave the way they do

Course content

4 sections • 16 lectures • 1h 2m total length

Introduction1:49
Explore milestones for children aged 2 to 5 and uncover causes of challenging behavior, then apply practical behavior management approaches and therapist-led techniques.
Milestones in Children from 2-3 yr3:19
Explore motor, visual, cognitive, and social-emotional milestones for 2-3 year olds, from stair skills and ball throwing to threading, drawing lines, turn-taking, and early language development.
Milestones in Children from 3-4 yr3:32
Explore motor, cognitive, emotional, and language milestones of 3–4 year olds, including stair skills, color naming, counting, pretend play, following three-part commands, and growing independence.
Milestones in children from 4-5yr2:47
Explore 4–5 year old milestones across motor, language, and social development, including drawing shapes, tying shoes, alphabet recognition, counting, following multi-step commands, time concepts, and understanding make-believe.
Recap of Milestones

What happen when children have social, emotional, and or verbal difficulties?2:33
Explore how children aged 2 to 5 may experience social, emotional, and verbal difficulties, including echolalia, trouble making friends, and following rules, influencing behaviors.
Behaviour1:19
Explore the concept of behavior as actions shaped by thoughts, feelings, and environment, and use the iceberg metaphor to uncover underlying causes, needs, and emotional states.
Behaviour Theory1:11
Explain behavior theory by showing how rewards reinforce repetition and sanctions reduce it, and how consistency influences outcomes. Note that more attention from teachers, parents, or therapists can increase repetition.
Challenging Behaviour4:40
Identify what makes classroom behavior challenging and view it as signaling underlying needs. Consider home, school, and therapy contexts, plus sensory and social factors, to adapt teaching.
Types and Examples of Challenging Behaviour1:20
Examine types of challenging behaviour, including bad language, disruption, ignoring tasks, aggression, and self-injury, and consider sensory difficulties, mood, and pressures at home or school.
Why Children Behave the Way that They Do?3:15
Understand why children behave the way they do by considering development, family experiences, self-image, relationships, and needs to support effective behaviour management.

Behaviour Management4:56
Explore behavior management by examining various approaches, prioritizing positive techniques that motivate children, understand their perspective, and balance sanctions to foster independence in classroom, home, or therapy settings.
Reward System8:27
Explore how rewards and reinforcers shape children's behavior, highlighting the need for immediate, achievable, fair, and consistent incentives, and applying token, social, tangible, and activity rewards to individual interests.
Behaviour Management Approaches4:19
Learn non-verbal behavior management, including stop signals and teacher presence, and reinforce positive behavior through praise, rewards, and teaching what students should and shouldn't do.
How Do we Praise?6:01
Discover how to use praise as immediate, value-driven reinforcement after the desired behavior, tie it to effort, encourage peer praise to foster independence, and model positive behavior in classroom settings.
Different Approaches10:52
Establish ground rules with student ownership, explain the benefits of positive behavior, and reinforce clear expectations through visible rules and regular, constructive discussions with students, parents, and carers.

Requirements

You will learn everything you need to know about behaviour and different approaches as well as understand better why children behave the way they do, and what we can do about it.

Description

Behaviour is how someone acts. It is what a person does to make something happen, to make something change or to keep things the same.

Behaviour is a response to things that are happening:

internally - thoughts and feelings

externally - the environment, including other people.

Observing behavior is the easy part. It is understanding why someone does what they do that is much more complicated.

At the end of this course, you will understand how important is to try to find the techniques that work best for you. If you come across ones that are effective or you like, adopt them yourself and see if they can work for you as well.

Finding out their individual needs, their strengths and weaknesses, their likes and dislikes, and so on, can help inform your decision-making when implementing behavior management into your classroom.

Challenging behavior is when someone interferes with learning or safety in the classroom. This includes students, staff, parents, and carers.

Every school can define challenging behavior differently. But, generally speaking, it's when a student disrupts a lesson.

It can lead to a decrease in productivity, emotional distress, or frustration. It's important to know that challenging behavior isn't a 'problem.' The student also isn't doing anything 'wrong.' Rather, it's a sign that there's something wrong with your style of learning, or in the child's personal life.

If you manage it well, then you can minimize any issues and create a happy classroom environment. However, it takes patience, care, and attention to get right.

We will be checking and learning the most important milestones for our little ones, and slowly understand their abilities in different ages and areas up to the point to face what is behavior and what are approaches works in different situations.

Who this course is for:

New teachers
Occupational Therapists
Educators
Support staff who teach whole class
Parents
Therapist who are in need to know about behaviour

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 11min

Behaviour6 lectures • 14min

Behaviour Management5 lectures • 35min

Finishing of the Course1 lecture • 2min

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