Transcript Making Playroom Materials from Everyday Items

Social and Emotional
Development
Objectives
1. Identify the Social Emotional
Development KDIs
2. Identify teaching strategies to support
these KDIs
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Balloon Game
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Group Story
Clean-up Time
Uh oh, look what’s happening
at clean-up time.
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Clean-up Time
How does this person feel?
Why ?
(write children’s
ideas here)
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Clean-up Time
So the problem is…
(Write down children’s ideas)
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This is what we should do at
clean-up time…
(Write down children’s ideas)
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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
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Approaches to Learning
and the HighScope Wheel
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Implementation Plan
Choose one of the Soc. and Emo. KDIs
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Strategies I do well
Strategies I will develop
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Steps I will take
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Steps I will take