For this assignment, create a multiple age (birth-3, 4-5, 6-8), family-friendly brochure, newsletter, or resource handout that explains the following:
Define social-emotional learning including a research-based rationale for why it is important in early childhood development.
Provide 2-3 strategies for how teachers and families can work simultaneously to foster social cognition (refer to the rationale at the beginning of the assignment description for a definition) and self-awareness in students.
Define self-regulation and provide two examples of how teachers/families can support the development of self-awareness in young children.
Discuss how self-regulation supports self-monitoring and identifying feelings and thoughts of self and others.
Describe learned helplessness, how it is developed, and how teachers/families can prevent or hinder the growth of learned helplessness.
Compare the effects a traditional classroom environment has on social-emotional development compared to various other approaches (Montessori, Reggio, project-based, etc.).
Three resources to assist families who have concerns about their child’s social-emotional development.