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Promoting Social and Emotional Competence Checklist

勛圖厙 School-Age Child Abuse: Prevention Lesson 3 Apply Promoting Social and Emotional Competence Checklist
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Read the following list of practices for school-age programs. Reflect on what you currently do and what you could do to promote social and emotional competence for children ages 5-12.

Promoting Emotional Literacy

  • Talk about emotions during natural opportunities every day.
  • Label and describe your own emotions.
  • Talk to children about how they are feeling.
  • Describe what you are noticing about a childs feelings or emotions (label their emotions). For example: It looks like you are pretty disappointed.
  • Ask children if you correctly described the emotion they are feeling. Be willing to listen if child says that you described their feeling incorrectly.
  • Encourage and recognize when children share about their emotions (Thank you for talking with me about that.).
  • Help children notice and respond to others emotions (How do you think Sonja feels about that?).
  • Help children find and use appropriate ways to express uncomfortable emotions like anger and frustration.
  • Normalize feelings. Experiencing a feeling whether that feeling is, happy, frustrarated, angry, etc., is normal. (Its okay to feel frustrated. Follow a normalizing statement with appropraite ways of expressing the emotion).

Promoting Problem Solving

  • Notice problems as they occur and see them as an opportunity to teach.
  • Specifically teach problem-solving steps.
  • Post problem-solving steps in the program area.
  • Engage children in brainstorming solutions to problems.
  • Recognize and give specific feedback to children who have solved problems.
  • Help children reflect on their own problem-solving skills (What might you try differently next time?)
  • Use conflict resolution and mediation strategies.

Promoting Friendships

  • Provide many opportunities for children to choose activities that interest them and to choose who they interact with.
  • Develop clear expectations for how people treat one another in the program.
  • Talk about bullying/teasing and what to do about it with children.
  • Help children solve problems by providing opportunities for conflict resolution and mediation.
  • Stick with children as they try to solve social problems.
  • Develop systems for introducing new children to the program and their peers.
  • Limit competitive sports and games. Provide opportunities for cooperative games that de-emphasize winners and losers.
  • Talk to each child every day.
  • Model friendship skills and respect with your co-workers.

Adapted from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) Social Emotional Teaching Strategies Pratice Implementation Checklist