Guidance begins with the premise that children do well when they can. Join Dr Louise Porter to explore how we can support children to regulate their feelings, adjust program demands to align with children’s abilities and methods to support children to behave considerately and respond to outbursts compassionately. APST 1: Know children and how they learn APST 4: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments Presented by Dr Louise Porter
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In this seminar, Dr Louise Porter will describe two styles of discipline: controlling discipline (which uses rewards to get children to do more of what we want, and punishments to cause them to stop doing something we do not like) and a guidance approach. Guidance believes that children do well when they can. Therefore, if they are making mistakes, it is not because they lack incentives to behave better, but because they lack skill – the main one of which is the ability to regulate their feelings and impulses. In this seminar, we will be focusing on how to adjust program demands so that children are more able to function successfully, and how to meet the children’s needs so that they are more willing to do so. It will then outline methods to support children to behave considerately and respond to outbursts compassionately.
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