Promoting Social Emotional Competence Social Emotional Teaching Strategies

Promoting Social Emotional Competence Social Emotional Teaching Strategies Module 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’s Key Principles • • • Intensity Clear Criteria for Efficacy Cost and Time Efficiency Long-term Essential Outcomes Family Centeredness Cultural Sensitivity and Competence 3

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. 4

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. 5

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

Identifying Teachable Moments 8

Building Positive Relationships with Children Shar e py p a H ms a r G Play e Hom s visit Time & Attention es Not e hom Emp athy 9

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 10

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 12

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

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 14

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

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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 17

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 18

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

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

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

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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 33

Feeling Activities 34

Identifying Feelings in Self and Others • Learning ways to relax • Empathy training 38

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Relaxation Thermometer Take 3 deep breaths… 1. . 2. . 3 41

Identifying Feelings in Self and Others Empathy Training 42

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 43

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 44

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

Problem Solving • Learning problem solving steps • Thinking of alternative solutions • Learning that solutions have consequences 51

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Would it be safe? Would it be fair? How would everyone feel? 54

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Problem Solving • Learning to evaluate solutions- Is it safe? Is it Fair? Good Feelings? • What to do when a solution doesn’t work 56

Problem-Solving Activities • Problematize everything – “We have 6 kids at the snack table and only one apple. We have a problem. Does anyone have a solution? ” • Play “What would you do if…? ” • Children make their own “solution kits” • Children offer solutions to problems that occur in children’s stories 57

Supporting Young Children with Problem Solving in the Moment • • • Anticipate problems Seek proximity Support Encourage Promote 58

Dealing with Common Peer Problems • Teaching alternative responses to being teased, bullied, or yelled at • Teaching children to speak up when something is bothering them, “Please stop” • Teaching children to be good ignorers (using a “Teasing Shield”) • Teaching aggressors skills to initiate play and to feel sorry 59

Key Points Intentionally teach – Friendship skills – How to recognize feelings in oneself and others – How to “calm down” – How to control anger and impulse – How to problem solve – How to deal with common peer problems 60

Promoting Social Emotional Competence Individualized Intensive Interventions Social Emotional Teaching Strategies Creating Supportive Environments Building Positive Relationships 61