Supporting Emotional Development

Supporting Emotional Development      

In this discussion, we will explore how young children learn to express their feelings appropriately. We will also look at positive guidance methods that facilitate children’s positive emotional development. In this video, watch an early childhood teacher use various strategies to help children learn to express their feelings in appropriate ways.

In your initial response, describe in your own words two positive guidance strategies the teacher in the video employs and two strategies you have observed your Cooperating Teacher use to support children’s emotional development. Based on what you have read in the text or observed in your practicum classroom, identify two additional positive guidance strategies that the teacher in the video or your Cooperating Teacher could have used to help facilitate preschoolers’ emotional development.  Explain your reasons for suggesting these other positive guidance strategies, including details about the situation that informed your selections.

With a peer, compare the strategies used by your Cooperating Teachers or the teacher in the video. Were the strategies effective or ineffective, and why? Share ideas with your peer about planning an activity that you each might do to help children develop mindfulness behaviors.  Positively “critique” and share advice/ideas about one another’s activity approaches.