QR1 Positive Guidance Requirements

Quality Rating 1: Positive Guidance

Requirements

Let’s look at the requirements for Developmentally Appropriate Learning and Practice: Positive Guidance: DAP 3.1. Select each hyperlink for the key terms to include in your policy.

Review the requirements that relate to your program type:

Child Care Center

DAP 3.1: Positive Guidance

Staff uses positive behavioral supports and strategies with children that include providing choices and using redirection.

Documentation to submit: Positive Behavioral Practices Policy

Family Child Care

DAP 3.1: Positive Guidance

Provider and any staff uses positive behavioral supports and strategies with children that include providing choices and using redirection.

Documentation to submit: Positive Behavioral Practices Policy

School-Age Only

DAP 3.1: Positive Guidance

Staff uses positive behavioral supports and strategies with children that include providing choices and using redirection.

Documentation to submit: Positive Behavioral Practices Policy

Key Terms

Providing Choices:

Offering choices to children is a proactive behavioral support strategy that gives children a sense of empowerment and control in their environment. At the same time, choices foster children’s development of responsibility and independence. Children need choices throughout the day: meals and snacks, where to play, where to sit, and what materials to use are just a few opportunities for children to make choices for themselves.

Redirection:

Redirection is a positive behavioral support technique where the adult changes the child’s focus or direction from a negative behavior or experience to a positive one. It may involve one of four different types of redirection: verbal, physical, verbal with a visual cue, and redirection of attention to a positive model.