What is Social-Emotional Development?

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​According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, social and emotional development consists of the following five core components:

Self-awareness

This is the ability to accurately recognize one's emotions, thoughts and their influence on behavior. This includes accurately assessing one's strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism.

Examples of questions someone who is self-aware may ask:

• What are my thoughts and feelings?
• What causes those thoughts and feelings?
• How can I express my thoughts and feelings respectfully?

Self-management

This is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts and behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving personal and academic goals.

Examples of questions someone who has good self-management may ask:

• What different responses can I have to an event?
• How can I respond to an event as constructively as possible?

Social awareness

This is the ability to take the perspective of diverse backgrounds and cultures, in addition to empathy for others. Social awareness is critical to developing the ability to understand social norms for behavior; as well as to recognize family, school, community resources and supports.

Examples of questions someone who has good social awareness may ask:

• How can I better understand other people’s thoughts and feelings?
• How can I better understand why people feel and think the way they do?

Relationship skills

This is the ability to establish and maintain healthy relationships with diverse individuals and groups. This includes:

• communicating clearly
• listening actively
• cooperating
• resisting inappropriate social pressure
• negotiating conflict constructively
• seeking and offering help when needed

Examples of questions someone who has good relationships skills may ask:

• How can I adjust my actions so that my interactions with different people turn out well?
• How can I communicate my expectations to other people?
• How can I communicate with other people to understand and manage their expectations of me?

Responsible decision-making

The ability to make decisions and solve problems on the basis of accurately defining decisions to be made, generating alternative solutions, anticipating the consequences of each and evaluating and learning from one’s decision are skills that are considered important to effective decision making. Responsible decision making is the ability to make constructive choices that are respectful about personal behavior and social interactions.

• What consequences will my actions have on myself and others?
• How do my choices align with my values?
• How can I solve problems effectively?

 

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1. Course Agenda
2. Social & Emotional Development
3. What is Social-Emotional?
4. Individual Differences​
5. Love is Not Enough
6. Supporting Social-Emotional (1/5)
7. Milestones in Infants
8. Infant Emotional Development
9. Infants and Toddlers

10. Milestones in Toddlers
11. Toddler Emotional Development
12. Toddler Social Development
13. Toddler Social/Emotional (2/5)
14. Milestones in Preschoolers
15. Preschool Emotional Development
16. Preschool Social Development
17. Development of Emotions
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18. Identify Emotions (3/5)
19. More About Emotions
20. Learning to Regulate 
21. Self-Regulation
22. Self-Regulation Skills (4/5)
23. End of Course Quiz (5/5)
24. Course Evaluation Form​
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