Practicing Positive Guidance Assignment (This assignment is worth 30% of your final grade)
This assignment is based primarily on Chapter 10 of your textbook. Please read Chapter 10 carefully
before attempting this assignment. You will also find Chapter 7 useful.
Objective: To use the techniques of positive guidance to guide children toward age-appropriate
behavior.
This assignment will consist of three scenarios. Please respond to each of the three scenarios.
Scenario 1:
You teach in a preschool classroom. You have created a wonderful new centre meant to inspire
dramatic play with dress-up clothing and various toys that could be used in many imaginative ways.
Five minutes after you have introduced the center to the children, two children are using long, thin
dolls as swords with which to fight. Using the dolls as swords is certainly imaginative, but the rowdy,
unsafe behavior is not what you had hoped to happen.
Your Immediate
Response:
Record exactly what
you would say and do
to guide the children
into safer behaviour.
When possible, use
positive requests
rather than negative
commands
Marks /2
DAP:
List at least two
specific DAP strategies
to prevent behaviour
like this in the future
Marks /4
Self-Evaluation:
Describe and justify
how your guidance
techniques would
improve teaching and
learning in the
scenario.
Marks /2
APA:
Use at least one quote
from the textbook or
other reputable
resource to support
your decisions.
Include a correct APA
in-text citation.
Marks /2

Scenario 2:
You operate a dayhome and you care for a five-year-old child with Down’s Syndrome named Jake
who has a limited expressive vocabulary that is difficult to understand. One day as you prepare the
after-school snack, you overhear two of your after-school children making fun of the way Jake speaks.
Your Immediate
Response:
Record exactly what
you would say and do
to guide the children
into kinder behaviour.
Marks /2
DAP:
List at least two
specific DAP strategies
to prevent behaviour
like this in the future.
You may also consider
ways to include Jake
more fully in social
play after school.
Marks /4
Self-Evaluation:
Describe and justify
how your guidance
techniques would
improve teaching and
learning in the
scenario.
Marks /2
APA:
Use at least one quote
from the textbook or
other reputable
resource to support
your decisions.
Include a correct APA
in-text citation. Please
see Chapter 6.
Marks /2

Scenario 3:
You are in the toddler room, and you observe a conflict between two children from across the room.
Before you have a chance to intervene, Saba grabs Sarah’s favourite toy. Sarah bites Saba. Both
children are now crying.
Your Immediate
Response:
Record exactly what
you would say and do
to guide the children
into safer behaviour.
Marks /2
DAP:
List at least two
specific DAP strategies
to prevent behaviour
like this in the future.
You may consider
strategies to prevent
conflicts over toys
and/or strategies to
reduce biting.
Marks /4
Self-Evaluation:
Describe and justify
how your guidance
techniques would
improve teaching and
learning in the
scenario.
Marks /2
APA:
Use at least one quote
from the textbook or
other reputable
resource to support
your decisions.
Include a correct APA
in-text citation.
Marks /2