Tip Sheets
These tip sheets are for early childhood and special education professionals working with young children in preschool, child care, and early intervention settings to assist teachers and parents in providing the best possible educational opportunities to students in their homes and classrooms.
Infant and Toddler
Definition
of Infant Mental Health
Guidelines for Referral: Red Flags
Questions About Kids: Additional resources on a variety of infant/toddler topics for parents and caregivers
Preschool
Challenging
Behavior and Children's Mental Health
Inviting and
Containing Techniques
Positive
Behavioral Support Plans
Recognizing and Coping
with Signs of Distress in Young Children
Relationship-Based
Teaching: Challenges and Benefits
Early Childhood Behavior Project Tip Sheets
The tip sheets below are available on the Early Childhood Behavior Project Tip Sheets web page.
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice-making
- Collaboration
- Communicative Alternatives to Challenging Behavior
- Functional Behavioral Assessment of Young Children
- High-Probability Request Sequences and Embedding
- Preferred Item as a Distractor
- Rejecting
- Request a Break
- Request Assistance
- Tolerance for Delay in Reinforcement
Additional Tip Sheets
These tip sheets were authored by Kareen Smith while employed as a graduate research assistant on Grant #H029K20171, Special Project to Provide Technical Assistance, Inservice Training, and Site Development for Positive Behavioral Support Strategies for Students with Disabilities, from the U.S. Department of Education, to Scott McConnell, Principal Investigator, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota; Carolyn Elliott, Principal Investigator, Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning; and Kathie Wolff, Project Coordinator, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota.
- Print all tip sheets listed below (75 pages)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
- Behavior Modification
- Contingency Contracts
- Cooperative Learning
- Cuing
- Defiance and Verbal Aggression
- Hostile Aggressive Behavior
- Modeling Behavior
- Passive Aggressive Behavior
- Peer Tutoring
- Physical Restraint
- Positive Classroom Environment and Student-Teacher Rapport
- Positive Programming
- Positive Reinforcement
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Social Contracts
- Bibliography
Positive Behavior Support Tip Sheets and Resources
The St. Paul Public Schools Early Kindergarten and Early Childhood Special Education Programs developed Positive Behavior Support resources (in whole or in part) with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education, using federal funds, CFDA 84.027A, Special Education - Grants to States. We are pleased to include these resources on our web site.
- Multilingual Behavior Articles for Families
- Multilingual Fridge Tips
- Data Collection Forms
- Lists and Poster
- Articles
- Action Plans
- These Action Plans were developed through a collaboration of the St. Paul Public Schools ECSE Program, University of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Department of Education.
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St. Paul
Public
Schools
Early
Childhood
Special
Education
Action Plan
for Positive
Behavioral
Support--Revised
1.22.09.
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St. Paul
Public
Schools
Early
Childhood
Special
Education
FAMILY
Action plan
for Positive
Behavioral
Support, May
2008.
Healthy Child and Youth Development Tip Sheets
by Martha Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
- The Three Cs:
Critical Ingredients for Healthy Child and
Youth Development
- The Three Cs:
Strategies for Parents of Children Ages
Birth to 4
- The Three Cs:
Strategies for Parents of Children Ages 5 to
11
- The Three
Cs: Strategies for Parents of Children Ages
12 to 18
Related Resources
- Questions About Kids: Additional resources on a variety of infant/toddler topics for parents and professionals