This course will help you understand the basic of temperament. You will use knowledge from this course to help address children’s behavior challenges and improve classroom interactions. The course will be a guide for understanding and working with children’s individual temperaments. You will first review how temperament traits combine to affect behavior. Then you will look at age-specific behavior patterns and temperaments in infants, toddler and preschoolers. Lastly you will examine environmental factors that influence behavior in five settings.