Tears, Tantrums and You – Managing challenging Behaviour
“Regulating emotions does not mean suppressing emotions but expressing emotions effectively and appropriately for safety, getting one’s needs met and socialising… Parents and practitioners have an important role to support young children through these testing times.” Building the Ambition 2014.
The aim of this course is to improve the quality of managing challenging behaviour within a professional childcare setting. It includes discussing how to prevent tantrums whilst exploring their triggers and why some children bite.
This course aims to give childminders the support needed to:
- Identify strategies for managing challenging behaviour.
- Consider appropriate methods within a childminding setting.
- Support a personalised development plan for every child..
Key learning during this course includes understanding and explaining:
- Ensure that a childminding setting promotes positive behaviour.
- Be responsive to children’s emotions and experiences and actively encourage children’s parents and their families to be involved in decision making about your childminding environment.
- Organise resources for children to access.
- Plan activities that are inclusive and available to all children.
- Help children to identify the boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in themselves and others.
- Value diversity.
Course outcomes:
When you have completed this course, your core knowledge and understanding will include:
- How to demonstrate respect and value for children’s capabilities and strengths.
- The recognition of developmentally appropriate behaviour.
- How to improve the quality and provision of outdoor play.
- How to increase your confidence in offering outdoor play in your childcare setting.
Training Provider Overview
We help childminders build on their Continuous Professional Learning. This includes interactive learning courses, e-Learning courses and access to webinars, network meetings, conferences and complimentary courses Taking part in these opportunities enables childminders to take responsibility for both their professional development and that of their childminding service – focusing on children, to help them achieve their full potential. We actively encourage childminders to take the opportunity to build on their knowledge, skills and professional growth throughout their career. SCMA is proud to be a SQA Approved Centre, which means that in addition to providing our own, bespoke learning opportunities, the Learn with SCMA team can also deliver SQA qualifications. The SQA qualification that we currently deliver is the Complete Childminding Learning Pathway - a Work Based Award, which is credit rated at Level 7 on the Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework (SCQF).
Training Provider Contact Details
Provider Name: Scottish Childminding Association
Contact Name: Learn with SCMA
Telephone: 01786 445377
Quality Assurance
SCMA are commited to ensuring that on-going quality improvement is an integral part of our organisation. The Learn with SCMA team aims for continuous improvement in the quality of all aspects of its work as part of its determination to help Learners achieve the highest possible standards.
Our Quality Assurance Policy is in place to ensure such continuous improvement through a process of self-evaluation and action planning. The Quality Assurance Policy and associated procedures involves all employees, Learners and collaborative partners such as the Care Inspectorate (CI), Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and Skills Development Scotland (SDS). The quality assurance policy is managed through the existing organisational structure. The quality assurance procedures are founded in a process of regular self-evaluation by teams and internal and external audits and observations, in addition to Learner feedback and local training needs.