Social and Emotional Development
Includes four different sets of checklists: Infant, Toddler, Young Child, Preschool. Empower yourself as your child's first teacher!
Analyze a child's initiation of an activity, their attention span, curiousity, frustration tolerance, relationship with teacher, acceptance of routines and limits, reactions to adults other than teacher, and interactions with other children.
Use the checklist to determine different areas of development. Areas include:
- shapes
- colors
- body parts
- social and emotional development
- motor and physical development
- music, movement and the creative arts
- dramatic play
- literacy (including phonological awareness, book handling, writing, letters, and more)
Some of the common social and emotional characteristics of five year olds. It is important to caution that these are generalizations and they may not apply exactly to all children but they are trends or barometers which have been gleaned from the research and they give us a rudimentary idea of what we can expect when we are looking at children of this age.
Some children engage in problem behavior that is typical of a particular stage of development as they build relationships with peers and adults and learn to navigate the classroom environment. The teaching pyramid model describes a primary level of universal practices-classroom preventive practices that promotes the social and development of all children.
Our classroom is a busy place where your preschooler is learning all sorts of things, social and emotional skills such as how to express feelings and how to work together with classmates on projects. This is a good introduction to a new preschool class.
Social-emotional behavioral development in young children changes by age. This shows how to evaluate children from the age of 2-5 years old. The changing behaviors are listed.
