Pyramid Model Preschool Module Series Deb Norris July 23, 2024

The Pyramid Model Preschool Module Series is a 7-part series dedicated to understanding, teaching, and providing practices to support the social and emotional developmental needs of preschoolers. The first training module in the Pyramid Model Preschool series is an Overall Introduction to the series. This is followed by Module 2: Nurturing and Responsive Relationships, which is the foundation of the Pyramid Model. This training focuses on practices for building relationships with children, promoting relationships between children, relationships with families that affirm family culture and identity, and relationships with team members. Following that module, participants will then be introduced to module 3, High-Quality, Supportive Environments. This module will focus on the practices for establishing high-quality supportive classroom environments that promote social-emotional skill development and prevent challenging behavior. In Module 4, Teaching Social-Emotional Skills, participants will discover how to promote social-emotional development with practices for teaching friendship skills, emotional literacy, self-regulation, and problem-solving. Module 5, Individualized Teaching of Social-Emotional Skills, will guide practitioners in how to individualize instruction on social-emotional skills for children who need more targeted supports. Practices that are taught include: teaching systematically, peer-mediated intervention, planning for embedded instruction, and progress monitoring. Module 6, Addressing Challenging Behavior, provides the practices for understanding child challenging behavior, how to respond to challenging behavior, becoming aware of bias in responding, de-escalating behavior, and the components of developing a behavior support plan for children with persistent challenging behavior. The last Module, Module 7, Overview of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children, is to teach practitioners about the steps of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children (PTR-YC) and how PTR-YC is used as a manualized process for conducting a functional behavioral assessment and developing a behavior support plan.