Social/Emotional Strategies
Importance
Social and emotional strategies are crucial in early childhood as they lay the foundation for a child's overall well-being and future success. These strategies help children develop essential life skills like self-regulation, empathy, and strong relationships, impacting their mental health, academic performance, and overall happiness.
Teacher Strategies
Effective strategies for teachers that foster social and emotional development in classrooms include building positive relationships, teaching social skills through modeling and role-play, and creating a supportive classroom environment. Actively engaging with students, providing constructive feedback, and encouraging collaborative learning are also crucial components. Through social and emotional learning (SEL) is the involvement of social learning to build relationships and awareness while encouraging students to manage behaviors and emotions through routines, plans, and responsible decision-making. Ormrod et al. (2024) describes SEL and strategies to SEL as influenced learning through motivation, engagement, and emotion.