Promoting Social Emotional Competence

1. Promoting Social Emotional Competence Social Emotional Teaching Strategies 2 CSEFEL

2. Agenda • Introduction • Identifying “teachable moments” • Positive relationships as an essential foundation • Friendship skills • Emotional literacy • Controlling anger and impulse • Problem solving • Dealing with common peer problems 2 CSEFEL

3. CSEFEL’s Key Principles • Intensity • Clear Criteria for Efficacy • Cost and Time Efficiency • Long-term Essential Outcomes • Family Centeredness • Cultural Sensitivity and • Competence 2 CSEFEL

4. Learner Objectives • Participants will understand when and where the most effective “teachable moments” are related to social skills and emotional regulation. • Participants will understand why rules are essential for early childhood classrooms. • Participants will be able to identify the criteria for developing rules with young children. • Participants will be able to identify friendship skills and how to teach them. 2 CSEFEL

5. Learner Objectives • Participants will be able to define emotional literacy and identify five activities that build “feeling vocabularies.” • Participants will understand why children need to learn to control anger and handle disappointment and will be able to identify four strategies to teach anger management skills. • Participants will understand the importance of teaching problem solving and will be able to identify the four stages of problem solving. 2 CSEFEL

7. Promoting Social Emotional Competence Individualized Intensive Interventions Social Emotional Teaching Strategies Creating Supportive Environments Building Positive Relationships

8. Identifying Teachable Moments

9. Building Positive Relationships with Children Happy Grams Home visits Share Play Time & Attention Notes home Empathy

10. Friendship Skills • How to give suggestions (play organizers) • Sharing toys and other materials • Turn taking (reciprocity) • Being helpful • Giving compliments • Understanding how and when to give an apology 2 CSEFEL

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12. Play Organizers • Rationale • Describe • Get friend’s attention • Give friend a toy • Give idea what to do with toy or play idea • Demonstrate • Right way • Wrong way • Practice • Promote 2 CSEFEL

13. Sharing • Rationale • Describe skill • Child has materials • Offers or responds to request from peer for materials • Demonstrate • Right way • Wrong way • Practice • Promote 2 CSEFEL

14. Turn Taking • Rationale • Describe skill • Get friend’s attention (look, tap, call) • Hold out hand • Ask for toy • Demonstrate • Right way • Wrong way • Practice • Promote 2 CSEFEL

15. Being Helpful/Teamwork • Rationale • Describe skill • How to help at home • How to help at school • Demonstrate • Right way • Wrong way • Practice • Promote 2 CSEFEL

17. Giving Compliments • Rationale • Describe • Verbal – say things like: • “Good job _____!” • “Great _____!” • “I like the way you _____!” • Physical – Do things like: • Hug • Pat on the shoulder • High Five • Demonstrate • Right way • Wrong way • Practice • Promote 2 CSEFEL

18. Knowing When and How to Give Apologies • Rationale • Describe skill • “I’m sorry that___” • “I didn’t mean to ___” • Demonstrate • Right way • Wrong way • Practice • Promote 2 CSEFEL

19. Setting the Stage for Friendship • Inclusive setting • Cooperative use toys • Embed opportunities • Social interaction goals and objectives • Ethos of friendship 2 CSEFEL

20. Strategies for Developing Friendship Skills • Modeling principles • Modeling with video • Modeling with puppets • Preparing peer partners • Buddy system • Priming • Direct modeling • Reinforcement 2 CSEFEL

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22. Enhancing Emotional Literacy • Learning words for different feelings • Learning how to recognize feelings in self and others 2 CSEFEL

33. Increasing Feeling Vocabularies • Direct teaching • Incidental teaching • Use children’s literature • Use songs and games • Play “How would you feel if?” • Checking in • Feeling dice and feeling wheels 2 CSEFEL

34. Feeling Activities

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38. Identifying Feelings inSelf and Others • Learning ways to relax • Empathy training 2 CSEFEL

41. Relaxation Thermometer Take 3 deep breaths…1..2..3 Adapted from Incredible Years Dinosaur School

42. Identifying Feelings inSelf and Others • Empathy Training 2 CSEFEL

43. Key Concepts with Feelings • Feelings change • You can have more than one feeling about something • You can feel differently than someone else about the same thing • All feelings are valid – it is what you do with them that counts 2 CSEFEL

44. Controlling Anger and Impulse • Recognizing that anger can interfere with problem solving • Learning how to recognize anger in oneself and others • Learning how to calm down • Understanding appropriate ways to express anger 2 CSEFEL

50. Questions about teaching young children to control anger and handle disappointment? 2 CSEFEL