This foundational resource for all educators of children from birth through third grade curates articles from NAEYC’s award-winning Young Children journal and Teaching Young Children magazine. The installment features a selection of articles that focuses on challenging behavior, exploring a range of topics that include culturally responsive strategies for challenging behavior; using guidance over discipline; creating environments that support positive behavior; and much more. Understanding what challenging behavior is and how to both prevent it and intervene when it happens is more critical than ever for the field of early childhood education. This collection offers strategies that can be implemented in the short term as well as information that can holistically improve how to address challenging behavior.
Introduction
Charis Lauren Wahman and Janice K. Lee
Becoming a Better Behavior Detective: Applying a Developmental and Contextual Lens on Behavior to Promote Social and Emotional Development
Claire D. Vallotton, Jennifer A. Mortensen, Melissa M. Burnham, Kalli B. Decker, and Marjorie Beeghly
Reducing Challenging Behaviors During Transitions: Strategies for Early Childhood Educators to Share with Parents
Anne M. Butler and Michaelene M. Ostrosky
Culturally Appropriate Positive Guidance with Young Children
Zeynep Isik-Ercan
Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support: The Role of Early Learning Program Leaders and Teachers
Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky
Culturally Responsive Strategies to Support Young Children with Challenging Behavior
Charis Lauren Wahman and Elizabeth A. Steed
Building Meaningful Relationships: Tips for Children Who Display Challenging Behaviors
Cecilia Scott-Croff and Sori Palacio
Responses to Challenging Behavior: Why Some Common Strategies Don’t Work and What to Do Instead
Keri Giordano, Emily Kokkinakis, and Briana Calcagno
Outdoor Recess Matters! Preventing and Reducing Children’s Challenging Behavior on the Playground
Hsiu-Wen Yang, Michaelene M. Ostrosky, Paddy Cronin Favazza, Yusuf Akemoğlu, W. Catherine Cheung, and Katherine Aronson-Ensign
Understanding Young Children’s Play: Seeing Behavior Through the Lens of Attachment Theory
Shulamit N. Ritblatt and Sascha Longstreth
Becoming a Social and Emotional Teacher: The Heart of Good Guidance
Katherine M. Zinsser, Susanne A. Denham, and Timothy W. Curby
Instead of Discipline, Use Guidance
Dan Gartrell
A Three-Step Approach: Promoting Young Children’s Self-Regulation and Language During Conflict
Kyla McRoy, Hope K. Gerde, and Laurie Linscott
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