2024 Guiding Children's Behaviour in Outside School Hours Care (National)

Guiding Children's Behaviour can be one of the hardest challenges in My Time Our Place framework within the Outside School Hours setting.  This course is designed to give Educators an understanding of factors which impact on children's behaviour and simple strategies which support effective communication and response strategies to reduce the number of challenging behaviour situations within the services program.  

The course will introduce information and response strategies which can be used by Educators to develop management plans and processes within the Outside School Hours Care setting. 

The learning outcomes of this course include:

• Understanding Guiding Children's behaviour in OSHC
• Identifying normal childhood behaviours and an introduction to autism and ADHD;
• Duty of care implications;
• Understanding the impact that parents and family have on children's behaviour;
• Impact of sleep on children's behaviour;
• The impact of food and dehydration on a child's behaviour;
• The implementation of strategies to effectively implement boundaries for children's behaviour;
• Identifying tantrums and meltdown;
• Practical application of the RAVES behaviour management cycle;
• Practical application of self defence and vocalisation drills for employees;
• Improve and standardise workplace incident reporting and communication;
• The effective use of chill out areas.

This course assists services meet National Quality Standards - Quality Areas 5,6,7

Quality Area 5 – Relationships with children

Quality Area 6 – Collaborative partnerships with families and communities

Quality Area 7 – Governance and leadership

Course duration: 45 MINS

Pre-Requisites: Nil

Learning Assessment: Multiple choice questions through the course.  No further study or assessment.

Certificate: Available for download at the time of successful completion of the online learning.

IACET CEU’S –  (In Safe Hands Educators In Safety are currently making application for IACET accreditation.  On successful attainment of this accreditation this course will carry 0.2 CEU)

Cost:  Individuals cost $45.00  If you are part of a Service / Centre please contact us for multiple course discount.

Support: For questions or support surrounding the content of this course or purchasing the course please go to the Support page or Contact Us page.