| The foci of preschool curricula should not be limited to teaching children basic colors, shapes, numbers, and letters of alphabet. Also, it should not be limited to teaching children to play nicely. Ability to attend a task and to stay on task is equally important as other skills such as social skills and pre-academic skills. A multiple baseline across participants design was used to investigate the effects of a self-management procedure with video self-modeling as a training tool to teach preschool children to monitor their task engagement behaviors. The effects of the self-management procedure on these children's transition behaviors, social interactions with peers and/or adults, and aggressive behaviors were also examined. The results showed that children as young as three years and a half, through the use self-management procedure as training, can be taught to monitor their behaviors. Additionally, video self-modeling in the training component can be used to in self-management to attain better task engagement behaviors results in a general education setting for preschool children. |
