Creating an Emotionally Safe Preschool Classroom: Responsibility, Respect, and Relationships

Aligns with Ohio SUTQ content standards in the Social Emotional domain
- Awareness & Expression of Emotion
4 hours in 1 session
OA-L3

Participants will review and discuss the importance of having a safe and respectful classroom for preschool children. Participants will have time to prepare a group presentation, sharing their ideal “safe” classroom, which includes room arrangement, classroom rules, and daily activities to implement, that encourage respect, children taking on responsibilities and developing relationships with peers and adults.

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Objectives

Participants will become aware, discuss and understand the benefits of providing a safe environment for preschool. Participants will understand the importance of providing a safe environement, and the difference it makes to their classroom and children’s behaviors.

Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
Area: Learning Environments and Experiences
Subgroup: Learning Experiences
Competency: 3.3 Articulates, analyzes, evaluates, and applies current theory and research on design of curriculum in order to support individual and group growth.

Participants will review the ways to create an emotionally safe classroom, discuss in detail. The will understand the many ways to support an emotionally safe classrom, identify three to focus on, and be able to share examples of how they use these ideas in their classroom during group discussion.

Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
Area: Learning Environments and Experiences
Subgroup: Interactions and Relationships
Competency: 3.7 Applies theory and current research to create a community* that fosters social and emotional development.

Participants will create a physical set up for an emotionally safe classroom, create realistic rules. Participants will discuss the meaning of active supervision during the daily routines, giving examples.

Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
Area: Learning Environments and Experiences
Subgroup: Interactions and Relationships
Competency: 3.7 Applies theory and current research to create a community* that fosters social and emotional development.

Participants will create lesson plans demonstrating their understanding of implementing activities that encourage respect, increase student responsibility, encourage positive interaction, and model empathy in their classroom routines.

Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
Area: Learning Environments and Experiences
Subgroup: Interactions and Relationships
Competency: 3.7 Applies theory and current research to create a community* that fosters social and emotional development.

Participants will reflect on session and comment.

Core Knowledge Document: Ohio’s Early Childhood Core Knowledge and Competencies
Area: Professionalism
Subgroup: Continuous and Reflective Professional Development
Competency: 3.2 Evaluates and applies current research and trends presented in professional resources. Develops and presents professional resources to improve practices.

This program is approved by the State of Ohio and is aligned with Ohio’s Step Up to Quality (SUTQ) standards.

To schedule this course for your organization, contact our Community Collaborations and Professional Development office.