Audience: Child Care Center Providers & Child Development Homes

This training focuses on how to incorporate classroom practices to reduce challenging behavior in early childhood classrooms. It will introduce strategies for classroom staff to develop sound, universal practices for engagement and trauma-informed prevention, instruction, and reinforcement based on Prevent, Teach, Reinforce for Young Children (second edition) by Dunlap, Wilson, Strain and Lee. Topics will include: Behavior Basics, 5:1 Ratio of Positive Attention, Using Predictable Schedules, Establishing Routines Within Routines, Directly Teach Behavioral Expectations, and Directly Teach Peer Related Social Skills.

An i-PoWeR account is required to sign up. Click the link above.

Registration is a 3-step process

• Step 1: Start the process by clicking the link under the training above to request to enroll in i-PoWeR.

• Step 2: Watch for an email from i-PoWeR confirming enrollment upon approval within 24 hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00-4:30 only. Any registrations requested outside of that time will be approved on the following business day.

This approval does not give you immediate access

to the course. You must receive the email in Step 3. 

• Step 3: Watch for an email confirmation from CCR&R for access to the course material within 24 hours of the confirmation email from i-PoWeR.

If you are not receiving the email in Step 2 and Step 3, check your spam or junk folder in your email. For further assistance, contact ccrrpd@midsioux.org.  

Funding provided by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services through the Child Care and Development Fund