Coaching Course: How to Praise & Encourage Children

**This coaching course is approved by SkillsFuture Singapore. It combines online learning with face-to-face skills coaching sessions conducted in small groups in Singapore. Singaporeans can purchase this coaching course with their SkillsFuture Credit. Other learners in Singapore (without SkillsFuture Credit) may also purchase this course on their own account.

This programme will help preschool educators and professional caregivers, who are taking care of children from 4 to 6 years old, to understand the importance of using praise and encouragement as positive motivators, and helping the children under their charge build a positive sense of self, so that they grow up feeling loved and develop into happy, competent individuals. Furthermore, they will learn how to teach the children problem solving skills by role modelling, it can be very beneficial for children to watch adults around them make mistakes, admit them, learn from them and then correct them. Face-to-face practice stations are set up for learners to role play and practice their newly learnt skills. They will be introduced to the processes of child development and explore how theoretical perspectives can be applied to a Child's Development and integrated with the flipped learning model.

Who will benefit from this programme?

· Preschool Educators

· Professional Caregivers

You will be able to:

1. Understand that child development is a systemic process by

a. describing how it is organised by domains and how these processes are interrelated

b. identifying and explaining how child development progresses in stages.

c. stating the range of skills and competencies within each domain

d. elaborating on the different theories that further explains the process of child development

2. Relate daily interactions by applying descriptive praise and encouragement,

a. to help children build a positive sense of self

b. to teach children problem solving skills by role modelling

c. through adapting role modelling, to understand the benefits for children to watch you and learn from mistakes, admit them, then correct them