Did you see my blog post last week on the importance of early childhood “folk wisdom” for becoming a Transformational Teacher when it comes to challenging behavior and beyond?
If you want to learn more about early childhood folk wisdom or want to pass on some folk wisdom of your own be sure to check out last week’s article and read the comments from the brilliant minds of teachers like you:
transformchallengingbehavior.com/folkwisdom
After I wrote that last week, I realized that last month’s discussion where almost 100 educators shared fun and creative ideas to overcome children’s resistance to mask-wearing was also a fantastic example of recently emerging folk wisdom that came about in response to the pandemic.
Check it out or add to the discussion here:
transformchallengingbehavior.com/blog/masks
Now, what do almost all early childhood folk wisdom strategies have in common?
Singing, puppets, finger plays, games, teaching direction-following with fun songs or games, using superheroes to encourage mask-wearing or letting children decorate masks…
All of these strategies tap into young children’s love of PLAY! They’re play-powered strategies.
Some play-powered strategies are part of the folk wisdom of early childhood...but, did you know that some researched-based challenging behavior strategies are also play-powered?
YEP.
If you’ve been struggling with challenging behavior and nothing you try is working please don’t beat yourself up.
It’s probably because you haven’t received the play-powered folk wisdom of our early childhood ancestors OR your college courses and the training you’ve attended left out the research-based play-powered challenging behavior prevention strategies!
YIKES!
See, without a challenging behavior prevention approach that combines early childhood folk-wisdom from real world classroom teachers and the best research-based play-powered strategies you’ll likely be forever stuck on the challenging behavior hamster wheel or feel like you’re putting out fires.
...and that means you don’t have what you need to truly transform challenging behavior in your classroom and become a Transformational Teacher-Leader who succeeds with even the children who challenges you most (yet)!
But it IS possible.
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