What's In This Kit?
New and inexperienced teachers often use time out as a guidance and discipline technique without really understanding its purpose and the outcomes that the technique can realistically predict. This training kit focuses on what time out could/should look like. It contains:

• Expected training outcomes
• Preparation instructions
• Training strategies and tips
• Implementation steps
• Follow-up activities for teachers
• Follow-up activities for administrators/directors
• A learning assessment
• A training evaluation/further needs assessment
• A resource list
• The artcle "Time Out: How it is Abused - What it Could/Should Look Like" by Roslyn Duffy
• A training certificate to award to teachers for attendance and participation
• A certificate for the trainer and other presenters

Who's the Target Audience?
This kit introduces beginning teachers to the idea that time out has a place in a cadre of positive guidance and discipline techniques, if it is used appropriately with an understanding of what it can and cannot accomplish.

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preperation time for this kit is from 1-2 hours. Implementation time is approximately 1.5 hours.

Training Outcomes:

1. Teachers will recognize the difference between time out used by teachers in a positive way and time out used by teachers in a negative or inappropriate way.
2. Teachers will understand appropriate teaching strategies to use when applying time out.
3. Teachers will analyze the effects of time out on children and their behaviors.

These training outcomes address the following:

• A-6a; A-6b of the Accreditation Criteria and Procedures of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC, 1998).
• 1 and 4b of NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation, Initial Licensure Level (NAEYC, 2003).
• Standard 1304.52(h)(1)(iv) of Head Start Performance Standards (Federal Register: Nov. 5, 1996, Volume 61, Number 215).

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