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
  • 3 hours
  • OA-L3

Part 5 of a 5-part series, this training helps early learning professionals/parents help children manage frustration, set limits, and promote self-control by using their “inside helper”. Participants will identify when they have observed frustrated children in the classroom and explain how they helped the child identify their feelings, control their angry feelings, and make the necessary corrections that will make the child feel good about themselves.

Previous parts of this class are not required prerequisites.

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Objectives

Participants will identify 3 activities that promote self-control in children. Participants will also define how these activities align to ELDS and the social-emotional development of young children.
  • Core Knowledge Document: Ohio’s Early Childhood Core Knowledge and Competencies
  • Area: Child Growth and Development
  • Subgroup: Developmental Process
  • Competency: 3.3 Analyzes and evaluates practice on an on-going basis and implements changes to enhance children’s growth and development.
Participants will discuss and share how they feel when frustrated. Participants will be able to identify 4 ways frustration affects future child development.
  • Core Knowledge Document: CKC Field Guide for Social and Emotional Development
  • Area: Child Growth and Development
  • Subgroup: Nurturing Relationships
  • Competency: 2.3 Models problem-solving skills in the context of children’s interactions and play.
Your Inside Helper participants will discuss the children’s story and identify: -how to introduce the story to a class -(2) examples of how the story helps a child develop self-control -relationship between self-control and a positive self image.
  • 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 discuss and identify ways to help a child -calm down -identify their feelings -identify the why of the frustration -problem solve to identify how to fix the mistake -acknowledge the feelings after correcting the mistake.
  • Core Knowledge Document: Ohio’s Early Childhood Core Knowledge and Competencies
  • Area: Child Growth and Development
  • Subgroup: Developmental Process
  • Competency: 3.3 Analyzes and evaluates practice on an on-going basis and implements changes to enhance children’s growth and development.
This program is approved by the State of Ohio and is aligned with Ohio’s Step Up to Quality (SUTQ) standards.
Continuing Education Units are available for this program through approval of the Ohio Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Hanna Perkins is a CSWMFT-approved continuing education provider; No. RSC019904

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

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