Session 1

Session 1: Social-Emotional Development

 

Session Summary

 

Review Session 1 to prepare for writing the quiz. As you review, note the sections that connect with the following points:

• Emotional development refers to the maturation of children’s emotional needs and capabilities. It is the process of gaining self-awareness, confidence, and independence.
  
  

• Social development refers to understandings and abilities related to interactions with others.
  
  

• Self-esteem is the feeling or opinion that children have about themselves.
  
  

• Child care providers can build positive relationships with children by creating environments of trust in which each child feels special and is able to express herself or himself without fear of humiliation.
  
  

• Child care providers should be available to children at all times. They should speak to children in a caring tone of voice and at the eye level of the children.
  
  

• Child care providers should build positive relationships with children’s families to enhance and promote each child’s self-esteem.
  
  

• Child care providers should allow children to express their feelings, and they should model positive interactions with others.

Session Quiz

 

Checking In

 

Contact your teacher to decide together when and where you will complete the Session 1 Quiz.

 

Course Completion Checklist

 

Have you been keeping your Course Completion Checklist up to date? Remember that the Checklist is available in the Toolkit, though it should now be saved to your computer and be partially complete.

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