CH 7:: Preschoolers & Social-emotional Development

Social-emotional development indicates how preschool children acquire the social skills, self-awareness, and personal qualities that are _____________________with learning in a classroom.

• irrelevant

• inter-connected

• different

Many social-emotional qualities—such as ________________; self-confidence as a learner; self-control of attention, thinking, and impulses; and initiative in developing new ideas—are essential to learning at any age.

• disinterest

• competitive

• curiosity

When learning occurs in groups, such as in preschool classrooms or family child care programs, the social environment significantly _____________________ how learning occurs. When young children enjoy interacting with adults and other children, they are more enthusiastic about activities and participate more.

• influences

• weakens

• impacts

Children who have been reported as having the greatest difficulties in learning are hindered by the lack of social-emotional qualities more than academic concepts.

• true

• false

Support children's social-emotional development with intentionality and ample opportunities to____________________ skills.

• neglect

• practice

• refrain

Create a program environment and daily routines that offer children opportunities for responsible and ____________________ roles in the classroom or family child care community.

• separate

• divided

• cooperative

Narrate for children what they are observed doing and expressing, providing ____________ to describe their thoughts and feelings and to clarify others’ feelings

• labels

• silence

• language

Provide specific ___________ to children about their efforts, reinforcing their choices that support learning and linking their actions to outcomes.

• questions

• feedback

• flashbacks

Encourage children’s___________, initiative, and contributions to shared activities.

• disbelief

• reality

• ideas

Help children to understand social cues (facial expressions, body language, tone of voice). This can be fostered by simply allowing the children to freely play with their peers (learning through experience), or by _______________ your own thought processes by thinking out loud (“I wonder what it means when Hayden is crying?”)

• modeling

• mimicking

• reinforcing