Understanding and Adapting to Individual Temperaments in the Infant and Toddler Classroom

Presented By: Sarah Grissom

Objectives:

1. Understand what temperament is.

2. Understand how temperament impacts behavior.

3. Learn techniques and activities to provide responsive and individualized care.

Core Competencies: 

1b: Understand and value each child as an individual with unique developmental variations, experiences, strengths, interests, abilities, challenges, approaches to learning, and with the capacity to make choices. (1 Hour)
1c: Understand the ways that child development and the learning process occur in multiple contexts, including family, culture, language, community, and early learning setting, as well as in a larger societal context that includes structural inequities. (1 Hour)

CDAs: Growth and Development