Recording: Tackle Behaviors that Challenge: with Joyful Support

Recording: Tackle Behaviors that Challenge: with Joyful Support

ARFF! Let’s face it, acronyms are fun. And the components of this one are key drivers of motivation in your classroom: Achievement, Respect, Freedom, and Fun. Watch the recording to learn more about essential elements of personal wellbeing for everyone in your classroom.

Resources:

• ARFF = Achievement, Respect, Freedom, Fun
• Find your own respect. Your health and wellness is exceedingly important, so start with your own ARFF (Achievement, Respect, Freedom, and Fun). Get in touch with your own needs, so you can then transfer that to your children.
• Respectful directions. To assist you in helping children to redirect themselves to the desired outcomes, simply try rewording the demand or plea to say “You can ….” OR “You may ….” Example: child isn’t in the circle time circle, so try saying: “You may hop to the carpet for circle time.”
• Respect takes time. Head Start is a place where children are learning how to behave as much as they are learning school readiness skills. By giving children respect, you are giving children the opportunity to find their freedom and fun, and to grow!
• Respect feels safe. Establish a classroom / learning space environment that allows children to move around, share their ideas, and engage in the learning process. Meeting emotional needs helps everyone, and everyone will have more fun when they feel safe being themselves.

Joyful Support Presenters:

Dr. Deborah Bergeron served as director of the Office of Head Start from 2018-21. From 2019-21 she broadened her leadership as director of the Office of Early Childhood Development in the Administration for Children and Families. Known as “Dr. B” to former students and teachers, she spent three decades in pre-K–12 public education as a classroom teacher and school administrator and currently serves as deputy director for Community Engagement and Innovation at NHSA.

Nick Young has been sharing the joy and enrichment of interactive music and movement with children for over 30 years. Nick began his career as a preschool teacher and created The Young Music Company—a mobile music school for preschoolers—bringing music into the lives of thousands of children every year.