Preschool Teachers: What Tweaks Are You Making?

What tweaks are you making to your activities, daily schedule, and interactions with children for the upcoming school year? 

WAIT, what!? You haven’t yet planned any changes? Fear not! It’s not too late. 

I know you’re busy. Perhaps tired. And maybe your classroom already runs like a well-oiled machine. But no matter how experienced, educated, and successful you are  (and even if you don’t get a brand new group this time of year) the sense of a new year is in the air and it’s the PERFECT time to make even just a few manageable tweaks so that you can be more successful in preventing challenging behavior before it even starts.

This month, in our Transform Challenging Behavior Teachers’ Club we’re focusing on making simple yet powerful changes in 5 key areas:

  1. Arrival Time

  2. Center Time

  3. Clean Up Time

  4. Circle Time

  5. The Transition from Lunch to Nap (oh, boy!)

What additional proactive support could YOU offer throughout the day to prevent challenging behavior before it even starts? 

I can’t offer you all the information, tools, and strategies that I shared in my TCB Club August Training (too much to cover in an blog, plus, that wouldn’t be fair to our paying members :))  But what I will do is encourage you to take even 5 minutes to ask yourself:

What could I proactively do more of in order to help children be settled, soothed, self-regulated and supported during each of the 5 times of the day listed above? 

Hint: do more of what works! Less of what doesn’t. Try something new. Tweak. 

Let us know one tweak you plan to make in the COMMENTS below.