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Objectives. Identify the Social Emotional Development KDIs Identify teaching strategies to support these KDIs. KDI 7: Self-Identity Children have a positive self-identity. Children:

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  1. Objectives • Identify the Social Emotional Development KDIs • Identify teaching strategies to support these KDIs

  2. KDI 7: Self-Identity Children have a positive self-identity Children: • Are aware of the characteristics that make up their identity, such as gender, ethnicity, culture, and abilities. • Perceive their uniqueness and develop a healthy self-image.

  3. Self-Identity Teaching Strategies • Focus on children throughout the day. • Address diversity and differences positively. • Provide non-stereotyped materials, activities, and role models. • Encourage family members to become involved in the program. • Establish ties with the community.

  4. KDI 8: Sense of competence Children feel they are competent Children: • Make discoveries and solve problems with an expectation of success. • Believe they can acquire the knowledge or skills they need.

  5. Sense of Competence Teaching Strategies • Encourage self-help skills consistent with children’s abilities and developmental levels. • Scaffold learning by introducing the next level of challenge when children are ready to move on. • Support children’s ideas and initiatives. • Acknowledge children’s efforts and accomplishments • Provide opportunities for children to be leaders.

  6. KDI 9: Emotions Children recognize, label, and regulate their feelings Children: • Identify and name their emotions, and recognize that others have feelings that may be the same as or different from their own. • Regulate the expression of their feelings.

  7. KDI 10: Empathy Children demonstrate empathy toward others Children: • Understand the feelings of others by drawing on their own experiences with the same emotions. • Respond empathetically by sharing the happiness of others and offering assistance when they see that others are emotionally upset or physically hurt.

  8. Emotions and Empathy Teaching Strategies Emotions: • Accept children's full range of emotions as normal. • Pay attention to facial expressions, words and gestures. • Name or label children's emotions as well as your own. • Call attention to the feelings of others • Incorporate discussions about feelings in daily events. Empathy • Model caring behavior using spoken language, facial expressions, and body language. • Acknowledge and label the feelings that children have in common. • Encourage children to help one another throughout the daily routine. • Present opportunities for children to look at things from a different perspective.

  9. Balloon Game

  10. KDI 12: Building relationships Children build relationships with other children and adults Children: • Relate to others. • Refer to teachers and peers by name. • Develop friendships, seek out others, and engage in give-and-take interactions.

  11. Teaching Strategies for Building Relationships • Interact with children in a genuine and authentic manner. • Maintain a stable group of children and adults. • Support the relationships that children establish with one another. • Provide opportunities for children to interact with others with whom they are less familiar. • Refer children to one another.

  12. KDI 13: Cooperative play Children engage in cooperative play Children: • Involve adults and peers in their play. • Engage in cooperative play with others by sharing materials, space, conversation, and ideas.

  13. Teaching Strategies for Cooperative Play • Promote interaction through the arrangement of space and materials. • Create opportunities for collaborative interaction. • Build collaboration by referring children to one another for assistance. • Help aggressive or withdrawn children join their peers. • Allow children to discover the consequences of their actions. • Play as partners with children.

  14. KDI 11: Community Children participate in the community of the classroom Children: • Act as members of the classroom community by participating in routines, cooperating with social expectations, and sharing responsibility for maintaining the classroom.

  15. KDI 14: Moral development Children develop an internal sense of right and wrong Children: • Develop ethical behaviors. • Understand that there are moral principles that do not vary by situation. • e.g., people should not hit others

  16. KDI 15: Conflict resolution Children resolve social conflicts Children: • Engage in conflict resolution, or social problem-solving, to settle interpersonal differences. • They identify the problem, offer and listen to others’ ideas, and choose a solution that is agreeable to all.

  17. Group Story Clean-up Time Uh oh, look what’s happening at clean-up time.

  18. Clean-up Time How does this person feel? Why ? (write children’s ideas here)

  19. Clean-up Time So the problem is… (Write down children’s ideas)

  20. This is what we should do at clean-up time… (Write down children’s ideas)

  21. Create Your Own Social Story • Prepare the beginning ahead of time • Use simple drawings • Identify basic emotions • Allow children to state the problem and generate solutions

  22. Approaches to Learning and the HighScope Wheel

  23. Implementation Plan Choose one of the Soc. and Emo. KDIs

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