Participants will discuss the importance of creating a respectful classroom and the positive abilities it helps children develop.
- Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
- Area: Learning Environments and Experiences
- Subgroup: Interactions and Relationships
Participants will review and discuss ways to provide a resPectful toddler/preschool environment, considering developmental expectations and cultural backgrounds. Examples of kind words will be given.
- Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
- Area: Child Growth and Development
- Subgroup: Developmental Process
Participants will have scenarios to choose from, or share one of their own and present how they would resolve the situation with respect and kind words. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect and share comments about the presentation.
- Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
- Area: Learning Environments and Experiences
- Subgroup: Interactions and Relationships
- Competency: 1.10 Engages in many one-on-one, face-to-face interactions with children in a calm pleasant manner to foster secure attachments.
- Competency: 2.2 Identifies children’s differing developmental needs and implements responsive strategies.
- Competency: 3.5 Articulates and demonstrates realistic expectations for children’s attention spans, interests, social abilities, and physical needs when planning group experiences and teaches increased “groupness” and other social skills as appropriate.
