Social Emotional Development in Children and Adolescents

Catalog description

This course addresses promotion, prevention, and intervention strategies related to young children’s social emotional development and behavior. The course provides a framework for understanding effective practices related to supporting young children’s social-emotional development, with a focus on building relationships with children, families, and colleagues; designing environments that support young children’s social-emotional competence; applying strategies for teaching social skills, and promoting emotional development. Participants explore social-emotional competencies, including, but not limited to: self-awareness, self-management, self-care, responsible decision making, social-awareness, relationship skills, and social-sensing, along with their corresponding components that focus on topics such as emotions, strengths, stress management, self-discipline, resilience, mindfulness, visible thinking, problem solving, empathy, perspective-taking, communication, teamwork, social justice, and global citizenship. Classroom-applicable strategies and activities for establishing a social-emotional classroom culture and fostering each of the social emotional competencies are modeled so that educators can maximize students’ learning, personal growth, and success.