Teaching with Respect

What's In This Kit?
This training kit helps teachers understand why respect is important in the interactions we have with all human beings, including young children who spend much of the day in our classrooms. By reading this article and engaging in the experiences, teachers will understand what it means to teach with respect. Teachers will understand why an environment designed around respect is important in the classroom. They will develop concrete ways to express respect in their everyday interactions with children.

This training kit contains the following components:

• Expected training outcomes and learning objectives
• Training research, models, benchmarks
• Preparation and implementation steps
• Handouts
• The article “Addressing Children’s Challenging Behavior: Teaching with Respect” by Mary Gersten
• References and resources
• Training Certificate for Learner �" Certificate of Attendance and Participation
• Training Certificate for Trainer �" Award Certificate

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audiences for this training kit are beginning and intermediate Learners who are working with young children (birth through 8 years).

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is estimated at 1.0 hour. Implementation and actual training time is 3.0 hours, which includes 1.5 hours of Face-to-Face Training and 1.5 hours of Independent Study and an Applied Activity Project. There is a Bonus Activity in the Group Instruction Face-to-Face Training that can add as much as 1 hour to the training time.

Training Outcomes:

After completing this training, Learners will be able to:

• Understand how teacher expectations/behaviors can contribute to children’s challenging behaviors.
• Learn the difference between praise and encouragement and how to encourage positive behaviors in the classroom.
• Implement conflict resolution techniques in the classroom.

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