Track 2
Teach Me What To Do! Promoting Young Children’s Social Emotional Competence and Addressing Challenging Behaviors (CSEFEL)

Amanda  Quesenberry, PhD
Assistant Professor Illinois State University

These sessions will be built around the Center of Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning’s (CSEFEL) Teaching Pyramid, (Fox, Dunlap, Hemmeter, Joseph & Strain, 2003) which is a framework for understanding effective practices related to supporting young children’s social and emotional development and addressing challenging behavior.

For more information: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/

The sessions in this track will address promotion, prevention and intervention strategies related to preschool-aged children’s social and emotional development and challenging behavior. The model includes a focus on:

• Building relationships with children, families and colleagues
• Designing environments that support young children’s social and emotional development
• Strategies for teaching social skills and promoting emotional development
• A systematic approach for addressing challenging behavior when it is persistent and not responsive to developmentally appropriate guidance procedures

These sessions will provide both a conceptual basis as well as specific strategies for supporting preschool-aged children’s social emotional development and addressing challenging behavior

Who should attend? Early childhood practitioners working with preschool age.

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