The term ‘behaviour guidance’ is used throughout these practice notes to reflect current thinking about the most positive and effective ways to help children gain understandings and learn skills that will help them to learn to manage their own behaviour.
After evaluating a child’s behaviour, discussing the situation with parents and the child where appropriate, and trying a range of strategies, the service may wish to consider consulting with and/or engaging support professionals. Parental permission would be needed in this instance.
The physical environment needs to provide developmentally appropriate materials and equipment so that children do not become bored or frustrated , which is likely to result in challenging behaviour.
The educational or recreational program and behaviour guidance strategies that a children’s service develops can assist in ensuring children’s individual and developmental needs are met and help them develop positive behaviour.
It is helpful to review your mission, vision, and objectives to ensure that your strategies are all aligned with the goals expressed in your previous work.
Strategies should also be updated periodically to meet the needs of a changing environment, including new opportunities and emerging opposition to the group's efforts.
Your targets of change include all of the people who experience (or are at risk for) this issue or problem addressed by your initiative. Remember to be inclusive; that is, include everyone who is affected by the problem or issue or whose action or inaction contributes to it. For example, a coalition such the RTR Coalition would want to include all teenagers as potential targets of change, not just adolescents who seem particularly at risk, and parents, peers, and teachers whose actions or inactions might make a difference.
By doing so, you can achieve the following advantages: Taking advantage of resources and emerging opportunities. A more efficient use of time, energy, and resources.
Bringing fans or heaters (if needed) so people will be comfortable. Asking members to escort each other home or to their cars, the subway, or the bus stop if the meeting runs late. Providing refreshments. Never underestimate the power of homemade food, drinks, and other treats.
A good strategy takes advantage of current resources and assets, such as people's willingness to act or a tradition of self-help and community pride. It also embraces new opportunities such as an emerging public concern for neighborhood safety or parallel economic development efforts in the business community.
For example, connecting youth with caring adults might be good for virtually all youth, regardless of income or past experience with the problem. Also, just one strategy, affecting just one part of the community such as schools or youth organizations, often isn't enough to improve the situation.
Remember that the so-called Golden Rule to “treat others how you want to be treated” doesn’t always apply in a diverse professional environment. Instead, it is better to follow what has become known as the Platinum Rule: treat others how they want to be treated.
Katie Reynolds. Written by Hult contributing blogger Katie Reynolds who is a freelance writer based in London. Originally from Michigan in the U.S., she relocated to the U.K. in 2010 to pursue a master’s degree at Hertford College, Oxford.
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