Targeted Audience: Early Care and Education Professionals. Temperament differs from other individual attributes such as intelligence, motivation or interests. Those describe what people do and why they do it. Temperament refers to how they do it. Participants in this training will receive an overview of the nine temperament traits and the variety of influences on temperament styles. Challenging temperaments including the flexible, fearful, and feisty styles will be discussed. Participants will assess a child’s temperament as well as their own temperament to compare for a goodness of fit. This course is instructor-led and interactive through discussions and assignments in course discussion boards.

Cost: $25.00 for inservice hours, $50.00 for college credit or CEU credit

Note: This course is approved by KDHE for 15.0 hours of inservice, by KACCRRA for 1.5 hours of early childhood CEUs, and by a variety of colleges for 1.0 hours of undergraduate and graduate credit.