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SCMA Childminders: Tears, Tantrums and You
This badge is awarded to childminders who can demonstrate their understanding on what the appropriate methods for managing challenging behaviour are, within a childminding setting and how they work in partnership with parents of children demonstrating challenging behaviour.
Completing this Open Badge will enable participants to develop their understanding on the importance of managing challenging behaviour within their professional childcare setting. It will take into account appropriate methods of dealing with tantrum triggers and children who bite; and dealing with aggression and identifying strategies for managing challenging behaviour within a childminding setting.
Childminders should be able to demonstrate:
- what the appropriate methods for managing challenging behaviour are, within a childminding setting.
- how they work in partnership with parents of children demonstrating challenging behaviour.
To earn this badge, you will need to:
- Have completed the SCMA Tears, Tantrums and You CPL workshop or completed the SCMA Tears, Tantrums and You eLearning programme
Tell us the following:
- How you prevent and deal with tantrums?
- What you can do when a child behaves aggressively?
- How you work with parents to manage challenging behaviour?
- Tell us how you will use what you have learnt on the course to improve and develop your practice in relation to Tears, Tantrums and You?
This badge does not require you to hold any other badges although you must have completed the SCMA Tears, Tantrums and You CPL workshop or completed the SCMA Tears, Tantrums and You eLearning programme.
Provide a statement, of around 200 words, telling us why you meet the criteria for this badge. Read the criteria carefully before submitting your statement, as your application will be declined if you don’t cover all of it within your evidence. Submit your statement using the badge application form below.
Use each point from the badge criteria as a heading or number your responses 1 – 4. This will help you structure your evidence. Write something for each point in the criteria e.g. if you are asked to work through a learning resource, you might say “I worked through the resource for half-an-hour each day between Monday 1 April and Friday 5 April and spoke to another childminder or professional about my responses to the exercises within it”. Stick to the criteria and don’t mention anything that isn’t relevant to it.
Remember, the evidence you provide will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Please don’t include confidential or private information within your evidence.
Badge issuer
Scottish Childminding Association
The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the only organisation dedicated to supporting childminders in Scotland. Our aim is to promote childminding as a quality childcare service. We do this in part by helping SCMA childminders to be the best they can be.
Submit your application
The SCMA Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SCMA will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge