Topic: Social-Emotional

By noticing and acknowledging children’s appropriate behaviors, you motivate children to continue to use those behaviors. It’s a win-win situation: teachers want children to exhibit positive behaviors and young children want their teacher’s approval. Learn more about strategies for acknowledging positive behaviors in this report.

Allowing children to express their preferences and make choices throughout the day will help them develop control and a sense of power over their environment. This report contains some strategies to make that fun and effective.

In early childhood settings, each interaction between a teacher and a child holds the potential to develop positive relationships. In this report, you’ll find quick and easy ideas and strategies to help you form closer relationships with the children in your care.

What is meant by the purpose of behavior and why is important? Find out in this report.

Although most children find it easy to talk, play and work with other children, some need a teacher’s assistance. Through planned social situations children are able to make new friends, which gives them confidence to seek out other social interactions. Discover various strategies in this report.

Children who feel appreciated and enjoyed by the adults in their lives are more likely to try to please those adults. In your classroom, this means that you have a very easy behavior management tool literally at your fingertips. Find some quick and easy strategies in this report.

As a teacher you can help the children in your classroom learn to label emotions and develop this valuable social-emotional skill. This report provides examples of ways to incorporate “emotion faces” into your classroom as well as other strategies for fostering emotional literacy in young children.

Learn more about emotional literacy and why it’s important in this report.