Peoria Building Blocks
Tier One: Building Positive Relationships with Children and Families and Creating Supportive Environments
Topics:
Introduction
to SocialEmotional
Development
& Challenging
Behavior
Building
Positive
Relationships
Designing
Supportive
Environments
Need to Know Training Materials:
Module 1: Promoting Children’s Success: Building Relationships and
Creating Supportive Environment
PowerPoint
 http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/training_preschool.htm
l#mod1 (click on the PPT link under ‘Presenters Presentation:
PowerPoint’ to download & view the training)
Handouts
All handouts can be found by clicking on the following links:
 Article: The Pyramid Model
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module4/handout7.pdf
 Activity: Hot Button Activity
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout2.pdf
 Activity: Reframing Activity
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout3.pdf
 Handout: Some Starters for Giving Positive Feedback and
Encouragement for Effort, Thinking, and Problem Solving
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout7.pdf
 Activity: Positive Attention Data Sheet
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout6.pdf
 Handout: Super Friend Award
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout8.pdf
 Article: Building Positive Relationships with Young Children
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout5.pdf
Nice to Know Supplemental Materials:
What is The Pyramid Model
 The Pyramid Handout
http://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/resources/documents/py
ramid_model_handout.pdf
 TACSEI Complimentary Materials
http://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/pyramid_model.htm
Video: Pyramid model Overview (11 min.)
http://challengingbehavior.vidcaster.com/7Gry/pyramid-model-overview/
Schedule-Making Materials & Icons (2 websites)
http://www.dotolearn.com/picturecards/overview.htm
http://depts.washington.edu/hscenter/teacher-tools#regulation
Checklist: Building Positive Relationships - See handouts on the hoiuwsb6
wiksipace
Metaphor: Positive Relationships & A Piggy Bank
 Pig and Coin Cut Outs – See handouts on the hoiuwsb6wiksipace
CONT. Tier One: Building Positive Relationships with Children and Families and Creating Supportive Environments
Topics:
Introduction
to SocialEmotional
Development
& Challenging
Behavior
Building
Positive
Relationships
Designing
Supportive
Environments
Need to Know Training Materials:
Module 1: Promoting Children’s Success: Building Relationships and
Creating Supportive Environment CONT.
Nice to Know Supplemental Materials:
Video
All videos can be viewed with QuickTime by clicking on following
links:
 Promoting Social Emotional Competence (22min.): Overview
of the Pyramid Model
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/social_emotional_com
petence.html
 Adult Child Conversation (3.40min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_1.MPG
 Transitions to Centers (1.07min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_2.MPG
 Providing Individualized Transition Cues to Gabby (0.52min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_3.MPG
 Circle Activity (1.57min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_4.MPG
 Stop/Go Teaching Rules (0.56min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_5.MPG
 Children Demonstrating Classroom Rules (3.49min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_6.MPG
 Positive Attention (3.00min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/presentersppt/V1_7.MPG
Individual Evaluation Tool
 Inventory of Practices for Promoting Children’s Social Emotional
Competence
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module1/handout4.pdf
TACSEI Resources
 Handouts, Tools & Articles
http://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/resources/tacsei_resourc
es_all.htm
Tier Two: Social and Emotional Teaching Strategies
Topics:
Why, When,
What, How
of Teaching
SocialEmotional
Skills
Social
Strategies
Emotional
Strategies
Need to Know Training Materials:
Module 2: Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies
PowerPoint
 http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/training_preschool.html
#mod2 (click on the PPT link under ‘Presenters Presentation:
PowerPoint’ to download & view the training)
Handouts
All handouts can be found by clicking on the following links:
 Activity: Embedding Friendship Opportunities into Daily
Schedule
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout2.pdf
 Article: You’ve Got to Have Friends
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout3.pdf
 Handout: Using Books to Support Social Emotional
Development
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout4.pdf
 Activity: Using Children’s Literature to Support Social Emotional
Development
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout5.pdf
 Article: Enhancing Emotional Vocabulary in Young Children
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout6.pdf
 Article: Helping Young Children Control Anger and Handle
Disappointment
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout7.pdf
 Activity: Pulling It All Together
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/handout8.pdf
Nice to Know Supplemental Materials:
Teaching Social Emotional Skills (Also available in Spanish on website)
 Feeling Chart
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/2006/feelingchart.pdf
 Feeling Chart
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/2006/feelingchartflower.pdf
 Emotion Faces http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modulesarchive/module2/handouts/5.pdf
 Turtle Technique http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modulesarchive/module2/handouts/7.pdf
 Problem Solving Steps
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies/problemsolvingb
oy.pdf
 Solution Kit
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/2006/solutionkit.pdf
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/2006/getatimer2006.pdf
 Solution Kit Cue Cards http://hoiuwsb6.wikispaces.com
Scripted Stories for Social Situations
 Brief & Descriptive Stories to Give Information Re. Social Situations
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies.html#scriptedsto
rie
CONT. Tier Two: Social and Emotional Teaching Strategies
Topics:
Why, When,
What, How
of Teaching
SocialEmotional
Skills
Social
Strategies
Emotional
Strategies
Need to Know Training Materials:
Module 2: Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies
Videos
All videos can be viewed with QuickTime by clicking on following links:
 Practical Strategies for Teaching Social Emotional Skills (28 min.)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/practical_%20strategies.
html
 Children Playing (1.39min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_1.MPG
 Play Organizing Skills (0.23min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_2.MPG
 Sharing Skills (0.29min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_3.MPG
 Being Helpful/Team Player (0.21min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_4.MPG
 Giving Compliments (0.09min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_5.MPG
 Using Puppets (0.15min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_6.MPG
 Friendship Art (0.56min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_7.MPG
 Friendship Book (1.24min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_8.MPG
 Super Friends (1.38min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_9.MPG
Nice to Know Supplemental Materials:
Book List
 Books to Support Social-Emotional Development
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/documents/booklist.pdf
Book Nooks
 Embed Social Emotional Skill Building into routines with these
ideas & activities designed around popular children’s books
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies.html#bookno
ok
The Professional Resource for Teachers and Parents
 http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/
CONT. Tier Two: Social and Emotional Teaching Strategies
Topics:
Why, When,
What, How
of Teaching
SocialEmotional
Skills
Social
Strategies
Emotional
Strategies
Need to Know Training Materials:
Module 2: Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies
Videos (CONT.)
All videos can be viewed with QuickTime or Media Player by clicking
on following links:

Emotional Literacy Activities: Happy, Sad, Mad & Scared
(1.31min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_10a.MPG

Emotional Literacy Activities: Happy/Mad (1.02min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_10b.MPG

Emotional Literacy Activities: Book (1.26min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_10c.MPG

Hands Are Not For Hitting (0.51min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_11.MPG

Glad Monster/Sad Monster (5.24min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_12.MPG

Turtle Technique (2.08min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_13.MPG

Solution Kit Example (3.18min)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_14a.MPG

Solution Kit Example (2.00min)
Nice to Know Supplemental Materials:
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/modules/module2/presentersppt/V2_14b.MPG
Tier Three: Individualized Intensive Interventions
Topics:
Nice to Know Supplemental Materials:
Intensive
Individualized
Interventions
What Works Briefs
 Numerous summaries of effective practices for supporting S/E
development
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/what_works.html
What Works Training Kits
 Based on What Works Briefs topics, provided are short training
packages that include PowerPoint, note pages, activities and handouts
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/training_kits.html