1. The Intentional teacher
Chapter 4 Social and Emotional Learning
Professor Backlar

2. Young Children’s Development in Social and Emotional Learning
immediate or delayed emotions
Self-awareness
Emotional self-regulation
Socialization-becoming member of the community
Social knowledge and understanding
Appropriate strategies for interacting with others
Social skills
temperament
Social dispositions

3. Teaching and Learning in Social and Emotional Development
Modeling
Coaching
Dividing positive behavior into its components
Providing children with explicit instruction how to perform and sequence
Creating opportunities for them to practice
Feedback
Providing opportunities for practice
Repetition and practice are vital to mastering appropriate behavior
Maybe different from home

4. Emotional Learning Child-guided experiences
Developing a positive self-identity
Teaching Strategies
Support children through separation
Show children they are valued through positive, respectful, attention
Address diversity and differences positively
Provide nonstereotyped materials, activities and role models
Include materials and experiences that reflect different cultures
Encourage family engagement
Establish ties with the community

5. Continued… Feeling Empathy Decentering Teaching strategies
Show concern for children who are upset (modeling)
Encourage children to express their feelings
Introduce perspective taking activities and questions about subjects other than feelings.
Pair children of different ability levels or ages

6. Continued… Adult-guided experience Developing feelings of competence
Having self-confidence to undertake tasks with the expectation success
Teaching Strategies:
Create space and schedule that promotes children’s sense of efficacy and control
Encourage self-help skills that are developmental appropriate
Introduce next level of challenge
Support children’s ideas and initiatives
Acknowledge and encourage children’s efforts and accomplishments
Provide opportunities for children to be leaders
Tune in to the involvement level of the children during large group activities

7. Continued… Recognizing and labeling emotions
Emotional awareness of feelings
Teaching strategies:
Attend to children’s emotional states
Accept children’s full range of emotions
Label children’s emotions and your own with simple words
Point out that other’s have feelings too
Comment conversationally on the emotions you observe children expressing
Plan small group activities that focus on feelings
Discuss with families children’s need to express and label feelings appropriately

8. Social Learning Child-guided experience
Developing a sense of community
Social group with common interest
Teaching Strategies:
Create atmosphere where kindness and supportive of one another is expected
Room arrangement-open spaces and enclosed areas
Establish a consistent daily routine
Call attention to team work happening
Organize activities that foster children’s participation with others
Involve children in larger community

9. Continued… Building relationships Teaching strategies:
Be genuine and authentic in your interactions
Maintain a stable group of children and adults so relationships can build over time
Support children’s friendships
Provide opportunities for children to interact with less familiar people

10. Continued… Engaging in cooperative play
Cooperation is acting together toward a common goal.
Teaching Strategies:
Promote interaction through use of space and materials
Create opportunities for collaborative interaction
Allow children to discover the consequences of their actions
Model cooperative play by partnering with children
When possible, share control in the classroom in other ways, too. (Rotation system)

11. Continued… Adult-guided experiences Engaging in conflict resolution
Problem-solving and guidance-appropriate, nonaggressive strategies to discuss and develop solutions to interpersonal differences.
Teaching strategies:
Establish a safe classroom
Convey calmness
Soothe children who are upset
Observe children’s behavior while mediating conflict-remain neutral
Develop solutions together with children
Help children reflect on problem-solving strategies they are learning at times other than during conflict

12. Continued… Developing a framework for moral behavior
Morality is a system for evaluating human conduct.
Teaching strategies:
Be consistent and fair-minded
Verbalize in simple terms the reasons for your actions and decisions that involve moral matters
Work with children’s families to achieve congruency

13. Resolving Conflicts

14. I was here first!

15. Activity: Conflict Resolution Role-Play
In small groups, review the Six Steps of Conflict Resolution on page 61.
As a group, come up with a skeet about a preschool conflict.
Each group member should have a part in the skit.
Role-play using the Six Steps of Conflict Resolution