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HOW TO DEAL WITH CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR

Although challenging behavior can occur in any classroom, research indicates that some children in urban communities experience conditions that contribute to risk factors for social and emotional delays. In addition, there is a specific need to support children who live in poverty, as children in poor families are twice as likely to be at risk for developmental, behavioral, and social delays as children in families earning 200 percent or more of the federal poverty line. That is, while 10–21 percent of all preschool children show challenging behaviors such as aggression, noncompliance, defiance, tantrums, and property destruction, 30 percent of children who live in poverty exhibit such behaviors (Voorhees et al. 2013). -NAEYC
1. Learn abut children's family
2.Develop and teach expectations
3. Develop and teach empathy
4.Perspective taking
5.Using group time to discuss conflict

Here are 9 kindergarten readiness skills children need to learn.

•Shapes and Colors. Kids love colors
•Cutting
•Writing
•Letter Recognition
•Number Recognition and Counting
•Sounding out Letters
•Reading Readiness
•Following Directions & Paying Attention.
See! it's possible :)