Positive Guidance Strategies Resource and Report Elcc

Introduction

The word guidance is said to be the equivalent term of “positive discipline” which means leading the children to reach their full potential through the process of moulding their skills and abilities at a very young age. This word may have different roots such as leading, showing the way or directing, still they fall on a single meaning and purpose. Applying the principle of positive discipline doesn’t mean that we will let the children “go free”, make their own decisions, and let them do thing on their own, instead, we serve us instruments to walk with them as they learn how to be independent. Guidance should always revolve on the belief that it should focus on building up a child’s self-regulation and self-esteem rather that controlling them and threatening them to possess the appropriate behaviour. Its goal is intrinsic; it is not a matter of having a good display. As an adult, a teacher, a parent or a guardian, we need to always make sure that we check our own emotions so we can offer the children the best quality guidance they deserve.

II. Value of the strategies

a. As an ELCC Student and Future ECEI believe that these guidance strategies is a great help for me as an ELCC student, because this helps me get ready for a bigger picture, not just a practicum student in a day care but a ELCC professional in the future. I feel so lucky that at this time, I was able to learn the guidance strategies and able to understand it so, when time comes that I’m already an ELCC professional I will be able to apply these strategies.

b. Co-workersIt will be very evident that these strategies would really help all the professionals, staffs, and providers in the field of ELCC to practice our career. These strategies will also help us to bond as we share our thoughts about a certain matter regarding our career. This will serve as a bridge to more understanding and learning from each other’s experience.

c. Parents These strategies will help the parents guide their children in the right path, because these strategies’ objective is to produce independent, self-reliant, and confident individuals in the future.

d. Children I believe, the children will be the most beneficial with these strategies as these mainly focus on making them worthy through leading them on the right track. These focus on moulding them as they reach their full potential until they come to the point that they will be able to make their own decisions.

III. Brief definition & implementation of strategies

1. Use Limits Effectively. This kind of strategy focuses on setting boundaries to children’s action and behaviour but make sure to use this limits effectively.
2. Teach Helpful and Appropriate Behaviour. This strategy teaches the children exhibit helpful and appropriate behaviour.
3. Set-up Practice Sessions and Give “On-the-Spot” Guidance. With this kind of strategy, the children are allowed to practice what they are going to show or tell you. Then the children will be given an on-the-spot guidance wherein they will be reminded about the action or behaviour they have practiced.
4. Give Signals or Cues for Appropriate Behaviour. These cues or signals can be verbal, nonverbal, written or pictorial. This also encourages the children to learn their limits and understand schedules and transitions.
5. Encourage Children’s Efforts to Accept Limits. Helps the children practice new self-encouraging behaviour, it has to be attractive and interesting for them, so they will be eager to do it.
6. Change Something About Context or Setting. Focuses on changing something to create different behaviours and new materials which will more helpful to the children.
7. Ignore Behaviour. The teacher ignores behaviour when he/she doesn’t pay attention to a specific situation, but only when is needed to appropriate to do.
8. Redirect Children’s Behaviour: Distract the Youngest. In this, you are thinking of ways on how to divert the youngest child attention by doing different interesting activities.
9. Redirect Children’s Behaviour Make Substitutions with Older Children. This strategy is a form of redirection which an adult shows how to perform a certain task in order to teach children.
10. 1Deliver I-Messages. The teacher/guardian/parent owns the problem instead of accusing the child.
11. Teach Conflict Resolution. Helps the children solve their own problems instead of adult solving children’s problem. The role of adult is to support and guide them as they go through the process.
12. Prevent Overstimulation & Teach Calming Techniques. Helps the children learn how to calm themselves and control their feelings.

*Real-life Implementation of the Strategy Among all the strategies I have this one strategy which I like most, the strategy where you are giving signals or cues to appropriate behaviour. This is my favourite because I got to encounter this every day, in our home. As I have two cousins, 7-year old girl and 10-year old boy, teaching them the appropriate behaviour is very important, and my auntie is just so creative in teaching them. Our toilet has papers attach saying “Don’t forget to flush me!”, their towels are hanging and there are labels on it which indicate their names with a cue saying “Don’t let me fall, I’ll get dirty!”, in our kitchen a big saying says “Always say PLEASE & THANK YOU!”, and lastly, all switch for lights in our house has a picture showing turning on and off the lights. I truly think that this a very effective strategy as my cousins, even me follow the cues and I am planning to use this too in the future instances like having my practicum and being an ECE.

IV. Potential uses of resource

The visual resource that I created would be helpful to all including parents, ELCC professionals, providers and of course the children. The following are the potential uses of my resource:

1. Awareness

This resource will mainly inform the audience about the guidance strategies, the basic definition in an easy and friendly manner which is easy to understand.

2. Comprehension

The audience will not just be informed about these strategies, but will have a full understanding about each because the resource used words which can easily be comprehended.

3. Application

After viewing the resource and having a full understanding of it, the resource also provide the audience examples so they can apply it in real-life experiences. Through these examples, they can imitate it or develop it more to become a successful parent, or guardian, or teacher, or a provider in the field who leads the path on guiding children towards reaching their full potential as good individuals.

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V. Quotations

“The attention and environment you provide shapes your child’s brain development for life.” – Erik Erikson. This simply tells us that how a parent or guardian had risen his/her child places a great impact in a child’s development in the future. That it is a matter of relationship between the person providing the love and attention, the environment, and the children themselves. “As teachers, we have a vision for our work and a hope for children. We hope them to develop in all domains and to satisfy their inborn curiosity by learning eagerly and joyfully (Marion, 2015)”.