Every impactful practice starts with reflection. Check in on how you’re using evidence-based social-emotional practices, celebrate your strengths, and highlight opportunities to nurture young learners where they need it most.
Find out where your temperament matches or doesn’t match with your child’s temperament and get ideas to support healthy family relationships.
Explore scenarios and create an action plan to address feelings of isolation, burnout, and frustration.
Click the ‘X’ to begin, then click the county to reveal Early Intervention programs, Early Learning Resource Centers, and Family Support Programs throughout the state.
In addition to understanding general reinforcement, it is key to understand the difference between positive and negative reinforcement. We recommend that you review “Reinforcement” prior to exploring this “Bit” in order to better understand the positive and negative aspects of reinforcement. You may be surprised by what you discover!
The word “punishment” can bring strong images to one’s mind. Images that often involve personal memories, angry adults, and crying children. Behaviorally speaking “punishment” is none of these things. In this “Bit” you will identify what punishment is and how it impacts behavior.
Just like reinforcement, punishment comes in positive and negative forms. We recommend that you review “Punishment” prior to exploring this “Bit” in order to better understand the positive and negative aspects of punishment. You may be surprised by what you discover!
The best teaching occurs wherever children are engaged. This set of videos provides strategies for teaching social skills across the day, and in different settings.
This is a practice that involves focusing your reinforcement on one specific behavior and withholding reinforcement from another specific behavior. We recommend you review “Positive and Negative Reinforcement” prior to exploring this “Bit.”
