Promoting Social and Emotional Development 

Course Description: Participants will explore how to set up a classroom environment that promotes the development of positive social and emotional skills and share their strategies on how to encourage and promote self-regulation and self-concept in children. Participants will analyze the assessment tool they are currently using and reflect on how that impacts their curriculum planning.  We will also consider how to implement strategies to promote cooperative social behavior that balance both individual and group needs. Attention to high needs children will be embedded throughout conversation.
Objectives:
1.Share their understandings of social and emotional development and articulate the ways they promote social and emotional  development in their own classrooms.                                 2.Summarize the concept of the CSEFEL pyramid and explain the ASQ definitions of social and emotional development.
3.Demonstrate that they understand the link between their assessment tool and the classroom environment.
4.Describe how each area of the classroom and playground can contribute to the development of social and emotional skills.
5.Practice using an observation tool developed by instructor that requires them to categorize their questions about a child’s behavior in terms of the social and emotional skills they are assessing and in the context of the classroom environment.                                                                                      6. Create strategies to reinforce social/emotional skills based on their observations.
7. Analyze case studies as a vehicle to understanding the difficulty of balancing individual and group needs. Be able to discuss strategies and possible adaptations.

More Information

EEC Training Hours: 5

CEU: 0.5

Core Competency Alignment: 2: Guiding and Interacting with Children and Youth

QRIS Standard Alignment: Curriculum and Learning: 1B. Teacher- Child Relationships and Interactions

This training is funded in part by the Department of Early Education and Care              

and sponsored by the Southeast Education Professionals Partnership

Lead Agency - Child Development and Education, Inc.