The purpose of this assignment is to help you think critically about social-emotional development and social competence, as well as explore methods early childhood teachers or caregivers can use to support development.

After Deva’s visits to the three early childcare centers and a home-based childcare setting, she appreciates the importance of her staff understanding developmentally appropriate practices to meet the social-emotional, physical, and language and cognitive skills of infants and young children. For this critical thinking assignment, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation for her to present to her staff.

1. Slide 1 – Title of the presentation
2. Slides 2-3 – Define social-emotional competence, why it is important for caregivers to understand the social-emotional developmental characteristics of young children, and how these characteristics influence children’s behavior.
3. Slides 4-5 – Define social-emotional learning and why it is important for caregivers to understand how it affects young children’s behavior.
4. Slide 6 – Define secure attachment and provide three strategies to foster secure attachment.
5. Slide 7 – Define temperament and provide three strategies to support and nurture each child’s strengths helping the child to adapt and become more confident.
6. Slide 8 – Define emotional regulation and provide three strategies for children to manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors.

References

Arizona Department of Education. (2018). Arizona early learning standards, 4th ed. Retrieved from: https://www.azed.gov/sites/default/files/2015/02/Arizona%20Early%20Learning%20Standards_4th%20Edition_2021.pdf

British BioMedicine Institute. (2020). Early childhood social emotional assessment: Key conceptual and measurement issues. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEbmMnbyuw

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning. (n.d.). Module 1: Social emotional development within the context of relationships. Retrieved from: http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/training_preschool.html#mod1

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Developmental milestones. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html

Child Mind Institute. (n.d.). What is self-regulation? Retrieved from: https://childmind.org/article/can-help-kids-self-regulation/

Child Trends. (n.d.). Social competence: Definition. Retrieved from: https://www.childtrends.org/research/research-by-topic/positive-indicators-project/social-competence

Committee for Children. (n.d.). What is social-emotional learning. Retrieved from: https://www.cfchildren.org/what-is-social-emotional-learning/

Fields, M.V., Meritt, P., & Fields, D. (2018). Constructive guidance and discipline: Birth to age eight, 7th ed. New York, NY: Pearson Education.