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SCMA Childminders: Tears, Tantrums and You
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?
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