I think that timeout is something that a lot of educators use but they don\u2019t think they\u2019re using it because they don\u2019t have that specific timeout chair. But that\u2019s not really how I identify timeout. I identify timeout as asking a child to do something they don\u2019t want to do so that if they\u2019re engaged in the block area and they hit a child in the block area and they\u2019re knocking over all the blocks and you say to them, \u201cYou need to go look at a book. You need to calm down. Go look at a book.\u201d Or \u201cYou need to calm down why don\u2019t you go to the quiet area or why don\u2019t you draw.\u201d Why do we expect this non-compliant child to go, oh ok. I don\u2019t really want to be here and I\u2019ll just trot off to the book area. So now what do you do? Do you spend 20 minutes convincing him that he needs to go to look at a book? Or do you ignore him when he says no and just forget about it because you don\u2019t want to engage in that kind of battle? Or do you pick him up and move him? And either way, what are you really teaching the child? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I think teachers really need to recognize the difference between if the child is engaged in that kind of play in the block area that they say to them, you know, \u201cI think you\u2019re having a hard time here. Why don\u2019t we go look at a book?\u201d Or \u201cWhy don\u2019t we see what markers we have in the drawing corner?\u201d So that it\u2019s something that he\u2019s being supported in and then once you\u2019re there and he\u2019s calm and you have a teachable moment, because you\u2019ve got to remember the importance of teachable moments, then you can say to him, \u201cWhat happened there? How are you feeling? What else can you do?\u201d and you can help identify whether or not that behaviour was a result of not getting, you know, wanting something that he couldn\u2019t obtain. Or wanting not to do something that his friends were asking him to do or maybe just wanting to make it more exciting and change the level of stimulation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think that timeout is something that a lot of educators use but they don\u2019t think they\u2019re using it because they don\u2019t have that specific timeout chair. But that\u2019s not really how I identify timeout. I identify timeout as asking a child to do something they don\u2019t want to do so that if they\u2019re engaged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1778\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}