Building Resilience in Young Children: Early Care and Education Tip Sheets

Course Instructor

Andrea Heil Author

Course Description

Our everyday interactions with young children have the power to build something essential within them – resilience. This course offers simple, meaningful strategies to help children grow to become emotionally strong, confident, and capable people.

Participants will begin with learning that resilience is a child’s ability to cope with stress, recover from challenges, and keep going – even when things are hard. Then the course takes early care and education professionals through the five resiliency tip sheets designed in collaboration with NorthKey and EC LEARN with funding from the Kentucky Early Childhood Regional Collaborative in Boone, Campbell, Kenton, and Pendleton counties.

Lessons in This Course

Welcome to the Course!
- Welcome/Start Here!
- Introduction to the Tip Sheets
5 Ways to Help Children Feel Safe
- 5 Ways to Help Children Feel Safe
- Tip #1: Have a Consistent Routine With a Visual Schedule
- Tip #2: Partner With Families
- Tip #3: Use Transition Strategies
- Tip #4: Attend to Children’s Feelings and Needs
- Tip #5: Have Developmentally Appropriate Expectations
- Summary: 5 Ways to Help Children Feel Safe
- Check Your Knowledge Activity: Helping Children Feel Safe
5 Ways to Build a Positive Relationship with Children
- Positive Relationships Matter!
- Tip #1: Create a Climate of Warmth
- Tip #2: Help Children Identify and Express Feelings
- Resources to Help Children with Feelings
- Tip #3: Build Personal Connections
- Tip #4: Catch the Good
- Tip #5: Get to Know Families
- Summary: 5 Ways to Build a Positive Relationship with Children
- Building a Positive Relationship with Children Reflection
5 Ways to Encourage Children
- Introduction: 5 Ways to Encourage Children
- Tip #1: Be Specific and Point Out Effort, Hard Work, and Individual Progress
- Tip #2: Enthusiastically Acknowledge Children’s Effort and Feelings
- Making the Shift From Generic Praise to Specific Feedback
- Words Matter!
- Tip #3: Catch ‘Em in the Act!
- Tip #4: Offer Hopefulness with Learning New Skills
- Tip #5: Point Out Children’s Individual Strengths
- Summary: 5 Ways to Encourage Children
- Check Your Knowledge Activity: Encouraging Children
5 Ways to Help Children Be Creative
- What is Creativity?
- Tip #1: Provide Open-Ended Materials
- Tip #2: Provide Adequate Time For Free Play
- Tip #3: Activate the Senses
- Tip #4: Engage in Physical Movement
- Tip #5: Encourage Children to Explore Their Interests
- Summary: 5 Ways to Help Children Be Creative
- Encouraging Creativity Reflection
5 Ways to Help Children Cope
- What is Coping?
- Tip #1: Be Present With Children
- Tip #2: Help Children Identify and Work Through Big Feelings
- Tip #3: Encourage Children to Keep Going in Difficult Moments
- Tip #4: Encourage Children in Finding Solutions
- Tip #5: Teach Regulation Skills
- Summary: 5 Ways to Help Children Cope
- Helping Children Cope Reflection
Wrapping Up
- Summary: Building Resilience in Young Children
- Check Your Knowledge Quiz
- Course Evaluation & Wrapping Up
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