Module 6 Assignment #1: Overview of Social-Emotional Development (6/11-6/14)

  1. Watch the video Preschoolers: Social and Emotional Development (Kanopy). The video is available on the BMCC library video database Kanopy; follow these directions to locate the video.  Complete this handout as you watch the video. https://bmcccuny.kanopy.com/video/preschoolers-social-and-emotional-developmen
  2. Read VLS (2013) Social-Emotional 
  3. Go to this website to read and watch the videos  on Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory
  4. Read Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development.and this accompanying handout
  5. Watch the video below (Bandura and Social Learning Theory).  I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.

Using information from the readings and videos answer the questions below in your own words:

  1.  What is social-emotional development?
  2.  What are the components or social-emotional development?
  3. What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    1. Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    2. How can this theory be useful or appled in early childhood settings?
  4. What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    1. As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
  5. What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    1. As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    2. How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
  6. What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?

36 thoughts on “Module 6 Assignment #1: Overview of Social-Emotional Development (6/11-6/14)

  1. Keneshia Wright

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    Social emotional refers to the ability to recognize express, and manage feelings at different stages of life.

    2. What are the components or social-emotional development?
    Children’s experience expression and management of emotions.

    3. What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Interaction with a social environment.

    1. Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    Because it provides a broad framework from which to view development throughout the entire lifespan.

    2. How can this theory be useful or appled in early childhood settings?
    Provide a portion of the day when children can choose their own activities.

    4. What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Moral development is a continual process that occurs throughout the lifespan.

    1. As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    So that you understand how children develop proper attitudes and behaviors and work with others based on cultural norms etc.

    2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    5. What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive, behavioral, an environmental influences.

    1. As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    So that they could observe and understanding behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions to others.
    2. How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings? Can be used to understand each stage.

    6. What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)? To understand them so they know how to interact with them each stage.

      1. Keneshia Wright

        Hi Maria
        I’m trying my best to understand and explain my work. Not everyone is able to break things down and be detailed like you, the greatest thing is I’m trying. It’s nice you’re able to be very detailed in your work.

  2. Janate Bratton

    Using information from the readings and videos answer the questions below in your own words:

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    2. What are the components or social-emotional development?
    3.What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    1.Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    2.How can this theory be useful or appled in early childhood settings?
    4.What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    1. As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory
    2.How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    5.What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    1.As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    2.How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    6.What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    Answer: Social-emotional development is when a child is having the ability to understand the feelings of others, control his or her own feelings and behaviors, get along with other.
    2.What are the components or social-emotional development?
    Answer: Development of social emotional children’s experience expression and management of emotions. for example recognizing if someone is sad, and asking if they’re ok.

    3.What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Answer: personality develops in a predetermined order through eight stages of psychosocial development, from infancy to adulthood. During each stage, the person experiences a psychosocial crisis which could have a positive or negative outcome for personality development.

    4.What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Answer: prevents people from acting on unchecked urges, instead considering what is right for society and good for others. It in how people learn to decide what is right and what is wrong.
    1.As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory
    Answer: its importance for childhood educators because it emphasizes that it is the way an person reasons about a dilemma that determines positive moral development.
    2.How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    Answer: Making sure I do teach my children what is right from wrong , and always guiding them into the right directions

    5.What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?

    Answer: Its observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others
    1.As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    Answer: its important to understand this theory because teachers can learn by observing children ‘ actions and whether these children are positively or negatively reinforced when exhibiting aggressive behaviors.

    2.How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    Answer: It can be useful for teacher being able to understand how your children think in the classroom , around other children , or even with the teacher, etc.

    6.What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?

    Answer: As teachers make sure you really do observe your children, take notes down, guide them into the right directions, even if you have to pull the parent over to the side and let them know how their children are doing and what they can also do as parents to help with their skills

    1. Maria Kaye

      HI Janate,
      for your answer to question 4, section 2 “How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?” I’d love to know more as to what in specific you would to apply it in your classroom settings, aside from teaching them right from wrong. How would you do that?

  3. emily soto

    Social emotional development is when a child has the ability to understand the feeling of other children and control their own feelings and behaviors. social emotional development represents a specific domain of a child development. this process allows a child to understand experience , express and manage /control their feelings.
    2. The components or social emotional development has three main areas of children self awareness , 1) acting , which is how behaves in appropriate ways and ways that show learning.2) feeling , understanding emotions, being able to understand others emotion and their own. 3) thinking , being able to control thoughts
    3. Erikson theory of psychosocial development is from infancy through adulthood throughout each stage the person experiences psychosocial crisis that’s either positive or negative. Erikson believed that personality developed in a series .
    1) It is imprtant for early childhood educators to understand this theory because by understanding erikson theory they can better critically analyze and understand other developmental framworks.
    2.This can be useful and applied in an early childhood setting by allowing independence from parents, by doing this it allows the children to discover themselves.
    4. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is developed in six stage theory starting with , the punishment and obedience orientation.. the instrumental purpose orientation , the morality of interpersonal cooperation, the social order maintaining orientation , the social contact orientation, and universal ethical principle orientation.
    5Bandura’s theory of social learnung is the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors , attitudes and emotional reactions of others.
    1 ) it is important that early childhood educators understand Bandura theory so they can understand the importance of each child’s behavior ,attitude and emotions.
    2) this can be useful in classroms because it can help children reach their potential.
    6 teacher’s can support social emotional development in young children by providing trusting relationships encourage the children to try new things, work on emotions, and feelings

  4. Maria Kaye

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    how children learn to express their feelings, develop relationships, and practice social skills.
     What are the components or social-emotional development?
    Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making

    2.What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Crisis which could have a positive or negative outcome for personality development. Successful completion of each stage results in a healthy personality and the acquisition of basic virtues. Basic virtues are characteristic strengths which the ego can use to resolve subsequent crises. Making connections and relationships with their peers and families, connection emotionally, mentally and physically. Understand emotions and how they affect us in every stage.

    1.Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    It is important for educators to understand this theory to better asses how to interact with children. How to handle different situation and emotions, scaffold the children through their development. Knowing and understanding unconditional love, how to motive the kids in order for them to build self confidence and strive in activities and curriculums.

    2.How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be applied in early childhood settings by allowing the kids to interact with children in different activities, talking to them through a conflict and allowing them to reflect on a better way to approach things. Letting children explore different activities and play with different kids in each one, to help them asses their own capabilities.
    Letting the kids fail in certain activities to let them understand that improvements can be made in order to achieve that skills. Scaffolding all of the stages in more ways than just one. Overall, applying support, unconditional love, trust and encouragement.

    4.What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Kohlberg’s theory about moral development goes on to describe how children develop the senses of knowing right from wrong. To later expanding it to try to analyze why, and how it happened. To question if there should be consequences for actions or if their actions are self explained and not need consequences. Then way I understand it is, children have to learn when things are right and wrong, and later develop their own thoughts and feeling as to how actions taken should be approached.

    1.As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    It is important to understand this theory as an educator due to the fact that small children are learning how to handle situations at a very early stage in life. It is also important to understand this theory so we can help guide the children in learning how to approach situations where they may fell they did something wrong and need to be punished for them or rewarded in some form for their good actions. To know that this is part of their development and know how to respond, act when helping out students struggling with this specific stage of development.

    2.How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be useful and applied in early childhood but one allowing the kids to have their own opinions or thoughts as to what consequences actions have. But also talking to them about why they think that, and how it can be handled. It can be applied when a child is playing with another then get into a physical confrontation, or verbal confrontation, guiding them to take the steps needed to analyze what has happened and how to work though it. Understanding that they don’t have to be afraid if they made a “bad choice” (I don’ t like thinking children make bad choices), and the issue can be properly discussed.
    Having a behavior char or accomplishment chart so they can visually see their positive actions have a sense of reward and admiration by their peers. This allows them to comprehend morally good actions and behaviors attracts positive feed back from those around them.

    5.What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replication behavior observed in other.

    1.As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    Understanding and dissecting this theory is important to help us educators understand that what children see in modeled behavior they may demonstrated as well. Understanding that their behaviors are modeled by what they see their peers do, or what TV or other social outlet’s put out that they are taking in. This theory also helps us understand that behavior is adopted from many different outlets and modeling children see and hear and interact with.

    2.How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be applied by modeling positive behavior, both physically and verbally. Reading and acting out positive books, plays or speaking about positive interactions they may have seen before. Allowing the children to talk about what behaviors they think are socially acceptable and why, or how it affects them and those around them. It can also be useful to articulate how to help and support the child and speak to their families about ways to support positive behavior at home or outside of school.

    6.What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    Teachers can demonstrate unconditional love, trust and self assertion. Allowing kids to explore their feeling and emotions during stages of social-emotional development. As teachers we can support the children by talking about positive behavior and aggressive behavior, demonstrate the differences and the affect each has. Another way to support this development is by guiding children to make connections and friendships with their peers, letting them play in different ares with different material and figuring out how to problem solve.
    In addition we have to support the children by helping them understand decisions making, wether it’s positive or negative an what consequence each has.

    1. Arelis Marie Elias

      Hi Maria, I can see that you have a clear understanding of social development and how it can be utilized in a classroom because you were very detailed and specific in your responses.

  5. Yasmina Nait Slimane

    Module 6 -1

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    Answer
    Social- emotional development is the ability of children to recognize their feeling and the feelings of people around them. It is the skills that helps them to build relationships and interact with others with cooperation, empathy. Also, it is the skills that helps them to manage their own behavior and form meaningful relation ship.

    2. What are the components or social-emotional development?
    Answer
    a. Self-awareness: is the ability to recognize feelings and though
    b. Self-management: is the ability to control those feeling
    c. Social awareness: is reach a certain level of interaction such as starts to feel empathy toward peers
    d. Relationship skills: is to arrive to a certain level of communication, acknowledge how to be cooperative, kind, and respectful toward others.
    e. Responsible decision-making: the ability to think whether the behavior is good or harm full for my peer then take an action to proceed or avoid doing that behavior.

    3. What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Answer
    Erikson established 8 stages of social development from birth to the end step of adult hood. He focused on positive and negative impact of the support that children receive on their behavior and personality those stages are:
    a. Trust vs. Mistrust: This stage helps to determine whether the infant will be confident to the world exterior or no. this is depend of the care that they are receiving.
    b. Autonomy vs sham and doubt: this is the stage where the child learn how to be independent and do their own task. So according to Erikson any criticize for child’s failure behavior lead to lose self-esteem.
    c. Initiative and guilt: this the stage where a child will explore his or her abilities to be creative and began to extend his or her interaction and any abuse in this stage will lead the child to inactivity and thus create a feeling of guilt.
    d. Industry and inferiority: the stage where a child acquire certain proficiency and competence so encourage them will boost their success, while ignore them will lead to inferiority.
    e. Identity and role confusion: in this stage kids learn to search about their existence in the world and society. They will search their identity and who they are. Failure in this stage will lead to role confusion.
    f. Intimacy and isolation: this the stage where kids focus to build relationship beside family.so, Success in this stage will build love. While failure build isolation and solitude
    g. Generativity and stagnation: in this stage a person focus on the what they realized in life or what are their project, it is self-accomplishment stage.
    h. Integrity and despair: this the last stage of social development according to Erikson it is the stage where a person will focus on their success or failure in life. Success will lead to integrity, while failure led to despair.

    3-1. Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    Answer
    It is important for early childhood educator to understand this theory because it helps them to have a clear focus on child’s development and thus offer an appropriate support and care. It helps also to determine the age we should apply certain activities and support depend of the child’s needs .

    3-2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    Answer
    This theory could be applied in early childhood setting by providing activities that could boost trust, interactions, and self-esteem. Encourage children when they do certain activities, avoid criticizing them when they fail, help children to be creative, let them participate in activities that permit them to exert the responsibility behavior. provide cooperative and collaborative activities.

    4- What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Answer
    Kohlberg’s theory of morale development focus on learning about right and wrong behavior in society and how children give their reasoning for that behavior. Kohlberg believe that children will focus on the consequences of their behavior. if its is wrong they will gain unpleasant regard from adult, while they could gain appreciation and gratitude if their behavior is right.

    4-1. As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    Answer
    It is important to understand this theory as early childhood educator because as educator and adult we are responsible to show for children the right behavior from wrong because they don’t know and they might be in confusion and develop their personality based on what they believe is right or wrong. Their believes could not match the society’s rules. Thus, they could have difficulties in their life. Certain rules should be tough from earlier age then children will build their personality based on this rules that distinguish the society.

    4-2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    Answer
    We should offer activities that helps student to practice morale behavior for example, urge them to respect the class rules at certain point, teach them how to respond respectfully for adult as well as for their peer.

    5- What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Answer
    This theory focus on that the aggressive behavior is acquired from observing the other’s behavior and repeating it as a reaction for certain situation.

    5-1. As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory (think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    Answer
    It is important to understand this theory because it helps us to understand the child’s behavior and where it come from. As we know that children could occur an aggressive behavior from different sources such as video game, tv, or even at home with their family or in class. In general, in their entire environment.

    5-2. How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    Answer
    Avoid activities that contain aggressive behavior and boost cooperative activities, strive to offer as much as we can a positive environment in class and enrich their environment with positive reinforcement.

    6- What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    answer
    Based on these theories, teacher should have a various of activities that could help a child in his or her social-emotional development such us provide cooperative ply and ensure participation of all children, teach them to be empathic, strive to teach them language and social skills, help children to understand their peer’s behavior, encourage their behavior and never criticize them in order to boost their self esteem and build a confidence feeling for them self and for the word around them.

    1. Arelis Marie Elias

      Great work I love your responses because they were very detailed you have clear thoughts and I can see that you understand why social development is so important in our field.

  6. Yan kyaw

    What is social-emotional development?
    Social emotional development is the skills that they give children the ability to identify and understand their own feelings and those of others and help them feel empathy and establish relationships. They are able to manage and express their emotions, regulate their own behavior and take initiative once they learn to identify their emotions and realize that other people have the same kinds of feelings. They can begin to empathize and form meaningful relationships.
    What are the components or social-emotional development?
    The components or social emotional development are Self awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making,
    What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development is emotional development that individuals go through in their lifetime at each stage. There is a struggle between initiative and guilt initiative is an emotional state. In which free stores become assertive, take social and creative risk and try to do things on their own lyrics and caution that if this initiative is criticized or inhibited children will develop feelings of guilt which can hurt their emotional growth.
    Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    It is important because Eeikson’s influence is seen in proschool through the initiative stage. He explained initiative and guilt initiative and how it is important for minerals and physically. And also, he explained, If this criticized or inhibited children will develop feelings of guilt which can hurt their emotional growth. They might stop trying new and creative things and begin to think of themselves in a negative way. So, it is very important for early childhood educators to understand this theory.
    How can this theory be useful or appled in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be useful to provide a portion of the every day when children can choose their own activities. For example, let children choose what they like such as books, toys and others in the classroom. This allows children the opportunity to learn how to make decisions for themselves.
    What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development has six stages. These are avoiding punishment, self interest, good boy attitude, law and order morality, social contract, and principle. He defined three levels of moral development, preconventional, conventional and post conventional. This theory believes what the children accept and believe the rules of authority figures.
    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    It is important to understand this theory because it is the way individual reasons determine positive moral development for the children. Young children are primarily motivated to behave appropriately simply to avoid being punished for misbehaving.
    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be useful. Teachers can help to guide their student’s moral development by setting a code of conduct for the classroom to encourage good behavior.
    What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behaviour observed in others.
    As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    This is important because it encompasses attention, memory and motivation, social learning theory spans both cognitive and behavioral frameworks. The importance of observing and modeling include the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions.
    How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    It can help students reach their potential. Teachers can create groups in the classroom who have the same motivation and responsibility.
    What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    Teachers can be useful to provide student’s moral development. Teachers can encourage good behavior for the children and can choose their own activities and explain what is social value in the classroom. Teachers need to create groups to help students who have the same choice in the classroom.

  7. kenneth soto

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    Social-emotional development are the skills and ability children have to identify and understand their own and others feelings. When they are able to identify feelings and regulate emotions they can begin to empathize and then build meaningful relationships.

    2.What are the components or social-emotional development?
    There are 5 core components:
    Self-awareness
    Self-management
    Social awareness
    Relationship skills
    Responsible decision making

    3.What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Erikson established stages of emotional development that an individual goes through in their life. In each stage there is a struggle between two opposite emotions. Preschoolers are on the second stage which means they struggle between initiative and guilt.
    -Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    It is important for early childhood educators to understand this theory because if children take initiative and they are criticized or inhibited that children would develop feelings of guilt which can hurt their emotional growth.
    -How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be applied in early childhood settings by allowing the children to be curious, take risk, explore and ask questions without feeling like they are being criticized or inhibited. Teachers should put emphasis on the process not the final product. Some activities that foster initiative are blocks, dramatic play, art and large motor free play.

    4. What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is a six stage theory grouped into three higher order levels of development.
    1. Pre-Conventional Level
    a. Stage 1: The punishment and obedience orientation,
    b. Stage 2: The instrumental purpose orientation
    2. Conventional Level
    a. Stage 3: The morality of interpersonal cooperation
    b. Stage 4: The social-order-maintaining orientation.
    3. Post-Conventional or Principled Level.
    a. Stage 5: The social-contract orientation
    b. Stage 6: The universal ethical principle orientation
    Children are believed to display pre-conventional moral reasoning meaning that they have internalized basic culturally prescribed rules governing right and wrong behavior.
    – As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    It is important to understand this theory because it gives educators the understanding that children are still learning how to control their behavior and actions. It is important that teachers understand that children realize that morally good behavior attracts praise and positive regard from peers and adults, while morally bad choices bring unpleasant consequences and negative regard.
    -How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be applied when teaching children morals. This theory helps educators implement rules and give directions to help children with their moral reasoning,

    5. What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Banduras theory of social learning is the idea that children learn aggressive behavior by observing others acting aggressively. Children learn under what situations people are likely to be rewarded for aggressive behavior.
    -As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    It is important to understand this theory because it explains why a child might act aggressively and that educators should not reward these behaviors because the aggressive behavior would continue and be repeated.
    -How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This can be applied when having to correct a child’s aggressive behavior.

    6.What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    According to these theories teachers should reinforce positive behavior and give consequences for negative behavior. Teachers should encourage risk taking and let children ask questions and explore so they won’t feel ashamed or doubtful. However they should also enforce rules and give direction so that children develop morally good behavior. Teachers should never reward aggressive behaviors so that a child would not further develop and use aggression.

  8. Taina

    What is social-emotional development?

    A skill set that gives children the capability to identify and understand their feelings along with others. This allows them to feel compassion which allows them to establish friendships and maintain them.

    What are the components or social-emotional development?

    Social-Emotional development is composed of five components:
    Self -Awareness
    Self – Management
    Social Awareness
    Relationship Skills
    Responsible decision making

    What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?

    Erikson believed that personality develops in a pre-determined order of eight stages of psychosocial development that starts at infancy and continues on through adulthood. For every stage, the person experiences a psychosocial crisis that could have a positive or negative effect on their personality development.

    Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?

    It’s important for early childhood educators to understand this theory because it’ll allow them to better understand the child and better assist them based on their age group. Based on this theory, each age group is on a specific stage of psychosocial development, and once you fully grasp each stage, you acknowledge what is specifically needed to progress their development and encourage them to build their confidence.

    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    In early childhood settings, caregivers can come up with different activities or react accordingly based on the theories. For Stage 1, the caregiver can attend to the needs of infant by attending to their cries and needs and building that trust between them and the infant. For stage 2, the caregivers can do certain activities that focuses on the development and strengthening of their fine and gross motor skills and encourage the children to boost their confidence. Caregivers can also provide a safe loving environment that will encourage the infants/toddlers to want to explore and become more independent. For stage 3 and 4, caregivers can focus on reading, team activities that involves sharing, having the children be creative and imaginative by telling stories, asking questions and answering their questions. They can also encourage activities that focuses on feelings and caring for others and helping the children build relationships with others and paving a path for success for the upcoming stages in life.

    What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

    Kohlberg’s believed that moral development is developed on 6 stages. In early life, when we’re at the beginning stages, we are aware of what’s right and what’s wrong based on the rules that are set by our authority figures such as our parents, caregivers etc. As we get older and start becoming more independent and assessing the world, we fall into the later stages and begin to use our own judgement based on the rules we were taught from young, what we know to be right and wrong, and also the principles and values we have on certain circumstances.

    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?

    It is important for early childhood educators to understand this theory because it’s our job to help develop them and set them up for success. It is our job not only to provide them the fundamentals of early independence and cognitive development, but to also teach them right from wrong and help them build certain characteristics that’ll help in their decision making and relationship building.

    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    In an early childhood setting we can enforce this theory by setting classroom rules that focuses on respect, honesty, being kind, etc. As caregivers we also should be setting an example for the children by always doing the right thing and putting an emphasis on what is wrong and what is wrong.

    What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?

    Bandura believed that social learning occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in others.

    As early childhood educators why is it important to understand this theory (think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?

    As early childhood educators, it is important to understand this theory because we should always hold ourselves to a higher standard around children and make sure we’re always setting the best example for them. Children imitate what they see, so if we provide an environment that ONLY acknowledges good behavior, honesty, team work etc, the children will mimic that and start to apply those behaviors not only in the classroom but outside the classroom as well.

    How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    In an early childhood setting we can enforce this theory by creating a positive environment that focuses on sharing, respect, and other positive behavior. We can acknowledge children when they do the right thing and correct them when they are wrong and explain to them why they are wrong. We can also provide learning videos and books that demonstrates good behavior.

    What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?

    When supporting the social-emotional development in young children we can use the above theories to help guide us. Considering Erikson’s theory, as teachers we can use the steps to better understand the needs of each age group and help them understand their feelings as well as others to help build healthy relationships. Considering Kohlberg’s theory, as teachers we can focus on enforcing rules and putting an emphasis on right from wrong in the classroom. Considering Bandura’s theory, as teachers we should always set the stage by demonstrating good behavior, acknowledging good behavior and correcting bad behavior.

  9. Arelis Marie Elias

    What is social-emotional development?
    Social-emotional development is the ability to express and to manage ones feelings and the ability to create meaningful bonds with others.
    What are the components or social-emotional development?
    The components of social-emotional development are self -awareness, self – management, social awareness, relationship skills, and the ability to make responsible decisions.
    What is Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Erikson’s theory is that there are eight stages of psychosocial development that start from infancy to adulthood that can have a positive or negative for personality development.
    Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    It is important for early childhood educators to understand this theory because it helps us to understand development through one’s entire life and understand the nature of human interactions that influence relationships.
    How can this theory be useful or appled in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be useful in early childhood settings because we can understand what kind of interactions a child has to adapt in order to have proper social relationships and interactions at a certain age. This also helps them become better decision-makers in life as it is only filled with decisions and teaching them right from wrong and to emphasize with others.
    What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is the ability to understand that there are consequences and to respect people of authority.
    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    It is important to understand this theory because as early childhood educators we will have children from different cultural backgrounds and every home has its own morals and ethical values and this gives us a blueprint to give to our students to understand the difference between right from wrong.
    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory can be applied in early childhood settings by maintaining structure in the classroom and laying down a routine to be followed so that the children understand they have responsibilities and right from wrong.
    What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Banduras’ theory of social learning is the ability to learn from your environment by observing and imitating.
    As early childhood educators why is it important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)? It is important to know about this theory because children look up to their authority figures it is important to be a good example at all times and lead.
    How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings? This theory can be applied ina classroom setting by ensuring that the things you do in your classroom and how you react in any situation can be imitated by the children because they learn from you and also by redirecting bad behaviours into good ones so that other children can learn consequences and see what right from wrong is.
    What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)? Teachers can make sure they conduct proper observations of each child to see if they are in the proper stages and phases in their social development and help to implement lessons and ensure that they are leading by example in their classrooms .

  10. sydnie d

    What is social-emotional development?
    Social-emotional development refers to the growth of children’s ability to identify and understand their own feelings and emotions and those of other people. It helps them feel empathy and establish relationships. The process allows them to manage and express their emotions and regulate their own behavior.

    What are the components or social-emotional development?
    The five core components of social-emotional development are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

    What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    In Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development there are eight stages of psychosocial development, from infancy to adulthood. And successful completion of each stage results in a healthy personality and the acquisition of basic virtues, but failure to successfully complete a stage can result in a reduced ability to complete further stages and therefore a more unhealthy personality and sense of self. This theory is important to understand because it is a more realistic perspective of personality development. It’s important to make sure all children’s needs are being satisfied and we are not neglecting any part of them because it is critical to their social-emotional development.

    What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is a six stage theory. And each of the stages is grouped into three, higher-order levels of development: 1) the Pre-Conventional Level, 2) the Conventional Level, and 3) the Post-Conventional or Principled Level. Stage 1: the punishment and obedience orientation, stage 2: the instrumental purpose orientation, stage 3: the morality of interpersonal cooperation, stage 4: the social-order-maintaining orientation, stage 5: the social-contract orientation, and stage 6: the universal ethical principle orientation. According to him, children tend to follow these rules but primarily for selfish reasons, it’s a way of avoiding punishment and getting praise for themselves. They know that good behaviors get them praise and positive regards from peers and adults, while bad choices have unpleasant consequences and negative regards.

    What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    The environment plays a large part in learning. We model the behavior of the people around us. There are three main parts to this theory, we learn by observing others, our mental state is important in the learning process, and learning doesn’t always mean there will be a change in behavior. This can be applied in early childhood settings by modeling examples of good behavior so the students can follow that

    What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    Teachers can support children’s social-emotional development by being affectionate and nurturing, using facial expressions, gestures and words to attentively respond to infants’ and toddlers’ attempts to communicate, planning meaningful and fun experiences for the children while acknowledging their differences and backgrounds, reaching out to the families of children to learn about their preferred methods of interaction with their children, planning activities and experiences that help children develop their social skills, feeling of empathy, respect for others, and sense of achievement, and creating a learning environment that acts as a community and allows children to feel that they belong to a group.

      1. Denise Newland Stewart

        Sydnie, I agree with your point on Kohlberg’s theory when you said children will do what is right for the reward. I am a believer in giving them the reward (tangible or oral) for the behavior displayed and they grow knowing what is acceptable or not.

  11. shayna velez

    What is social-emotional development?
    Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development. It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others.
    What are the components of social-emotional development?
    There are five components of social-emotional development. The first component is self awareness. The second component is self management and the third component is social awareness. The fourth component is relationship skill. The fifth and last component is responsible decision making.
    What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    The Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development is that infants need to trust adults because if their care is inconsistent then they may develop mistrust in the world around them.
    Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    It is important for early childhood educators to understand this theory because it is a good theory that shows early educators they need to have consistent care for their students through clear communication.
    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    This theory creates a basic understanding that educators need to have patience and consistent kindness towards their students so they grow up trusting the world around themselves.
    What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is important because teachers need to teach the kids moral (good) behavior. Since an educator wants their kids to perform illegal activities as they get older, the Kohlberg moral development theory will provide an opportunity for the educator to assess the child’s moral development and create reactionary responses that will assist the child and move them in a more moral direction if need be. If the child appears to have a conventional moral response to the case study, the educator can maintain that strong moral character in the child with positive reinforcement.
    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    By understanding the Kohlberg theory or moral development, an early childhood educator will receive a class lesson where the educator will present the “Heinz” case study and have a conversation about it which will allow them to critically think about their own moral judgements and present opinions as well as reasoning to the educator who will listen to their stories. It will be a good substitute for “story time.”

    What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)? Social learning theory is helpful because it promotes observation as a means of understanding the social emotional development of the child. By observing their interactions, the experimenter gets an understanding of the child’s behavior. Since the experiment had three conditions, one that rewarded bad behavior, one that punished bad behavior, and one that received no response, the experimenter was able to understand how the reaction to the bad behavior influenced or did influence the repetition of the behavior. The experiment revealed that the child’s observed behavior can be repeated. In fact, the observed behavior increased their likelihood of acting out new bad behavior such as wielding a gun.
    How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    It can be used to guide childhood educators from limiting the amount of observed bed behavior in the classroom.
    What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    Teachers can support social-emotional development in young children by using Kohlberg’s theory of moral development to teach them right from wrong in their role as an educator. The teachers should punish the kids if they do something bad because they may think it’s ok to steal or hurt someone when it’s not ok. As role models teachers should teach the students how to do good things and how to be independent. Bandura’s theory tells us that teachers will have to observe the students to know whether they’re doing something bad or good because they might have an innocent face but you won’t know what they’re doing unless you pay close attention to them. Erikson states that children need to trust adults and educators can help to develop this by being honest with them, giving them high-fives, giving them snacks, giving them stickers and consistently showing them that they care.

  12. Elianna

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    -Its the skill set gives children the ability to identify and understand their own feelings and those of others.
    2.What are the components or social-emotional development?
    The components are
    ~Identify feelings of self and others
    ~Feel empathy
    ~Establish relationships
    ~Manage and express emotions
    ~Take initiative
    3.What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    -His theory is that personality develops through eight stages of psyhosoical development and successful completion results in healthy personality and the acquisition of basic virtues.
    1.Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    -It’s important for early childhood educators to understand this theory because then educators will know how let the child explore its abilities and provide the right environment so that child can secede in life.
    2.How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    -The theory can be useful for early childhood settings because you will be aware of what stage the child is at and how you should let the child interact with others,what activities the child should do,and letting the child learn and try new things.
    4.What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    -Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is that their is 3 levels and 6 stages and they levels and stages describe how the children develop the knowledge of knowing whats right and wrong and figuring out thats there is consequences to the wrongs and to the rights.
    1.As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?
    -Its important for early childhood educators to understand this theory is because educators needs to know what stages and levels the child is act and how to react when a child does something wrong or right.By knowing so they can guiding the child and teaching the child how to approach situations so they can learn from their actions.
    2.How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    -This theory is useful in childhood settings because educators need to be aware how to react to all situations and how to reward or how to punish the right and the wrongs in classrom.
    5.What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    -Bandura’s theory of social learning is that what those observe are most likey to replicate those actions in its own way.
    1.As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    -Its important to understand this theory because educators can know how to act around children and know what actions to take to avoid any unproductive learning in a classroom.
    2.How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    -its useful because educators can applied this theory to this classroom by showing good behavior and knowing what books and what tv programs to show and observe more how children interacts so only postive behavior is learned.
    6.What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    Teachers can support social-emotional developmet by providing a playful and safe space,creating a bond with all children with love and trust, and modeling good behavior.Lastly, letting the child explore and learn new things .

  13. Denise Newland Stewart

    Module 6 Assignment #1: Overview of Social-Emotional Development

    1. What is social-emotional development?
    Social-emotional development refers to how children learn to express their feelings, understand the feelings of others and try to maintain positive relationships.

    2. What are the components or social-emotional development?
    -Self-awareness – is being able to identify your emotions and thoughts and how they influence behavior. They can recognize their strengths, challenges and likes and dislikes.
    -Self-management – refers to being able to control one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors successfully during different situations.
    -Social awareness – is the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoe and see things from their viewpoint, though they may be from different cultures background.
    -Relationship skills – Developing and maintaining good relationships with other, yet they may be from different cultural background.
    -Responsible Decision Making – taking actions that obey the rules, securing the safety of self and others, showing respect to self and others and displaying good character.

    3. What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    -Erikson theory of Psychosocial development theorized that personality develops in a prearranged order through each stage the persons can have positive or negative personality development.

    1. Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?
    -This theory helps educators to better understand how children behavior at certain stage in their development. Teacher will also know how to handle the positive and negative behaviors that will be displayed by students.

    2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    -This stage focuses on initiative and educators should give students the opportunity to explore their personalities and do things by themselves with minimal guidance. Allow students to become independent and initiate activities with others. Place more emphasis on the positive things and less emphasis of the negative things.

    4. What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    -Kohlberg’s theory of moral development explains how people’s moral reason changes as they get older. He identified three different levels of moral reason: pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional and each level is sub-divided into two stages. Persons have to pass through each level in the order listed.

    1. As early childhood educators why is it important to understand this theory?
    -By understanding stages in moral development, we can guide our moral development as well as our student’s. Teachers modeling appropriate behavior and encouraging our students to practice good behavior.
    2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    -This can be applied in the classroom by setting clear guidelines for students and encourage them to follow through. Also, students should be celebrated when they do the right things and be discouraged from performing opposite actions.
    5. What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    -Learning which happens through observing, retaining and repeating the behavior that was observed in others.

    1. As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory (think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?
    -We can learn through observation. We are influential in our children’s lives and they absorb what we say and do with them, therefore, we must be good role models.

    2. . How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    -Children learn from each other, so we have to keenly observe our children to ensure that they are doing the right things. Corrections should be made to inappropriate behavior because if ignored or not constantly enforced, can be repeated.

    6. What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    -Our children have different personalities, moral values, and they will learn and practice what they have observed. We should encourage students to express their differences and good student to student and teacher to students relationships.

  14. Camila Polo

    1. What is social-emotional development?

    Social-emotional development is the ability to identify your feelings or feelings of others. It also allows you to feel empathy, establish relationships, manage and express emotions and take initiative.

    2. What are the components or social-emotional development?

    The components of social-emotional development are;
    self-awareness- the ability to recognize one’s emotions
    self-management- the ability to regulate one’s emotions
    social awareness- the ability to empathize or take the perspective of someone else relationship skills- the ability to establish and maintain a healthy behavior
    responsible decision-making- the ability to make constructive and respectful choices

    3. What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?

    Erickson’s theory of physical development is that there are 8 stages of phycological development. If a person is able to successfully complete each stage, they will have a healthy personality. if a person fails to complete a stage it can result in unhealthy personality and sense of self.

    1. Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory?

    It is important for an educator to understand this theory so that they educator can take proper sets in each stage to ensure the child is developing properly.

    2. How can this theory be useful or appled in early childhood settings?

    Trust- a caretaker must be consistent, predictable and reliable with infants so that they can develop a sense of trust
    Autonomy- a caretaker must ensure that the child doesn’t feel criticized, overly controlled and must be given the opportunity to assert themselves.
    Initiative- It is important for a caretaker to not make a child feel like the child’s questions or the child is being a nuisance
    Industry- the caretaker must encourage and reinforce the child to take initiative

    4. What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is the learning of wright from wrong, and whether consequences should be implemented.

    1. As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory?

    As early childhood educators it is important to understand this theory because it is our job to teach children right from wrong and establish rules.

    2. How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    This theory can be useful in an early childhood setting because we can apply it to teach the children right from wrong and make sure they understand the rules clearly.

    5. What is Bandura’s theory of social learning?
    Bandura’s theory of social learning is that children learn aggression through seeing it happen between adults.

    1. As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)?

    As early childhood educators it is important to understand this theory because it may help us understand the child’s aggression and where it comes from. We should also understand that a change in environment, such as reducing video game play or tv time can help with aggression.

    2. How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?

    This theory be useful and applied in early childhood settings by ensuring that in the classroom there are no violent activities that contain aggressive behavior.

    6. What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?

    After understanding the theories of Erikson, Bandura and Kohlberg I have learned that as a teacher I can support children’s social-emotional development in the classroom. I can establish trust, help with child’s independence, not criticizing the child, and reinforcing the good behavior. I should also follow Bandura’s theory and help child learn right from wrong and teach rules. Finally, I should create an environment of non-violence and keep an eye open for any violent or aggressive behavior I may see a child exhibiting.

  15. Kelly Nunez

    1.  What is social-emotional development?
    ANSWER: Social emotional is when children are able to understand feelings of others, being able to express themselves and create relationships with others.

    2.  What are the components or social-emotional development?
    ANSWER: some components reflect on children knowing when and if another person is under the weather and asking them if they are ok.

    3. What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development? (1.) Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory? (2.) How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings?
    ANSWER: Personalities develop through eight stages in life, from infant to adulthood. during each stage the person may experience a positive or a negative outcome that becomes their personality development.

    6. What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?
    ANSWER: as a teacher we can respect and show them acceptance that they are important and matter to us, love them unconditionally, support them and help them express themselves whether its something positive or some sort aggression.

  16. Luis Martinez

    1. Social-emotional development is centered on the relationships an infant or child has and how they navigate these relationships. It also includes how the child navigates their relationship with themselves in terms of their emotions and how they chose to handle them. At such young ages, social-emotional development is heavily influenced by the way they are treated by their caretakers and how they see others interact with the world.

    2. The components of social-emotional development are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Self-awareness is being able to recognize one’s emotions and is capable of analyzing the reasoning behind those emotions and feelings. Self-management is having control over how one reacts and feels in an effective way. Social awareness is how humans empathize with one another and how one gets to better understand the social world. Relationship skills are knowing how to improve and keep healthy relationships. Lastly, responsible decision-making is being able to consider what is the best action to take depending on many factors such as ethics, safety concerns, social norms.

    3. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is based on stages throughout a person’s life in which they will face one of two outcomes. For early childhood, there are four main stages; trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. doubt, initiative vs. guilt, and industry vs. inferiority. All the stages have a virtue that is the center of the stage, such as hope, will, purpose, and competency for the stages above.
    1. It is important for early childhood educators to understand this theory in order to understand what the child needs from educators as caretakers and how to interact with them in a way that helps their growth and not hurt their development.
    2. It can be applied by assessing what stage the child is at depending on their age and focusing on how to help them in that stage and whether it be by leading them to do things on their own or developing a sense of independence.

    4. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development also deals with stages only this time it is centered on how a person might respond to a moral dilemma. There are three levels each with two stages, the levels are pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. The stages are stage one, punishment and obedience, stage two, instrumental purpose, stage three, the morality of interpersonal, stage four, social-order-maintaining, stage five, social-contract, and stage six, the universal ethical principle.
    1. It is important to understand this theory so that we may have an insight into how a child views morality and their sense of right and wrong. If we know it centers around punishment or self-interest, then we can help them navigate problems from a point of what the outcome may be or what they will get depending on what they do.
    2. This theory is useful in early childhood and can be applied by telling students the consequence of certain actions so that they have a better idea of “punishment”.

    5. Bandura’s theory of social learning is when a child witnesses and observes another’s behavior and adopts the same behavior. The theory was tested with an experiment using nursery students watching an adult show aggression towards a doll.
    1. It is important to understand this theory because if we as educators are careless about the way we behave around young children and they might start learning from our negative behavior.
    2. It can also be implied in the videos we decided to show in the classroom setting.

    6. Teachers can support social-emotional development by teaching them how to get along with others and techniques for handling emotions. Teachers can also support them by modeling good behavior and treating their actions with a positive approach.

  17. nana kvaratskhelia

    1. Social emotional Development is the succession and combination of skills and features that the human acquires, from infancy to adulthood, enabling him to interact with surrounding environment and the people involved in his life (parents, relatives, caregivers and social individuals of the society like friends, fellows) in a continuous process of learning, to build his natural role and relationships in family, school, work.

    2. the components or social-emotional development are
    • Self-awareness
    • Self-management
    • Social awareness
    • Relationship skills
    • Responsible decision making.

    3. Erikson theory: The Individual goes through a stage of emotional development, and in each stage, there is a struggle between two emotions that the individual is mentally and socially involved enabling him to take choices building his personal self-concept.

    A. It is important to early childhood educators to understand Erickson’s theory because children
    might go in either positive or negative psychological struggles while they are discovering themselves
    by asking various questions which can inhibit their curiosity. The educator takes the role of
    channeling and persuading the children to build a positive contact and values with the exterior
    world and the willingness to morally learn more through initiative.
    B. Erikson’s theory can be useful in early childhood sitting when I applied as an assessment in the
    pedagogic program persuading children to maturing and extroversion by expressing their own and
    socialize with their environment including risks and interactions through interactive activities art and
    hobbies. Also, recreation involving tasks like individual and associative or parallel please to build a
    hands-on personality by learning with practice.

    4. Kohlberg theory In the 1950s Kohlberg initiated a theory of moral development based on the research study that he entered to win children of different social ranks, different ages and from different cities invoking the dilemma situation about Heinz stealing the drug for his sick wife to assess the participants answer and categorize them into six stages to display preconventional moral reasoning.
    A. It is important for Early Childhood educators to understand this theory, thanks to the aspects it
    shows about children’s ability and awareness to acquire social values, to distinguish what is morally
    good or bad as a behavior. It also, involves them to assimilate factual causes and behavior
    consequences
    that determine whether an individual deserves punishment or praise.
    B. Dilemmas like Heinz could be given as examples to the children in early childhood settings to
    assimilate preconventional moral reasoning and let them learn morally good and bad behaviors and
    their consequences to help them learn values, implying that as a way for them to learn at the
    individual level to avoid punishment resulting from Immoral behaviors and pursue recognition and
    praise of teachers and fellows appreciating their good actions.

    5. Bandura’s theory of social learning is a social observational learning that occurs by retaining/replicating behaviors seen in others.
    A. The Bandura theory is important for Early Childhood Educators to understand that raising up
    children and educating them relies also on what they see as behavior in people around them and
    media that we could show them, and their interactions with other children, and also the behavior of
    their families home.
    B. The Bandura theory can be applied in a positive way in early childhood settings by making
    caregivers and adults behave exemplary, involve children in non-violent activities, and emphasize
    good influence.

    6. To support Social Emotional Development, teachers should focus on behavior integrity in order to promote the well-being impacts on children’s emotions, and therefore, inspire positive initiative in them, and safe relational interaction with other children, their caregivers, their parents, and the members of society they could interact with along their growth and their lifetime. Caregivers and teachers should offer a good environment to toddlers and infants letting them build and actively get consciousness and manage their own social and emotional development as individuals. The teachers have the role to use pedagogy and interactive teaching to inspire and impregnate strong values and safe behavior in the children, by influencing them to think, act and positively take initiative with interest to their fellows, the adults and the environment they grow in.

  18. Marilyn Jimenez

    What is social-emotional development?
    Social-emotional development refers to how children learn to express their feelings, develop relationships, and practice social skills.

    What are the components of social-emotional development? The components of social emotional development are1. self awareness, 2 Self-management, 3. Social awareness, 4. Relationship skills, and 5. Responsible decision making.

    What is Erikson theory of Psychosocial Development?
    Erickson theory stated that personality develops in a predetermined order in 8 stages of psychosocial development from infancy to adulthood. In each stage an individual goes through a psychosocial crises which can have either a positive or a negative outcome for personality development.

    Why is it important for early childhood educators to understand this theory? It is important because
    an early childhood educator can make sure as the children go through these stages their needs are met so they can be able to have a positive outcome in all the stages of development.

    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings? This theory can be applied in early childhood settings by you as the teacher or childcare giver knowing what stage the child in your care is and helping them in that stage of development by guiding and supporting them.

    What is Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
    Kohlbergs theory of moral development is more about how a person reacts to a situation. If they choose the right way or what they think is right morally.

    As early childhood educators, why is it important to understand this theory? it is important to understand this theory because I feel like it gives you an understanding of why children choose the decisions they choose.

    How can this theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings? this theory is useful because I feel like it gives you more or less of an understanding as to why the child makes the decision they decided to make.

    What is Bandura’s theory of social learning? In Bandura’s theory of learning he tested how children react after they watch certain behaviors and the reaction to those said behaviors. In his testing it showed that children who were exposed to certain behaviors modeled those same behaviors.

    As early childhood educators why is important to understand this theory ( think past aggression and other implications social learning or observational learning can have)? Its important to understand this theory because as early learning educators we model behaviors to the children in our care and we are in a sense showing them what to do and how to do it as they follow what we do as adults and caretakers.

    How can the theory be useful or applied in early childhood settings? this theory can be useful in the early childhood setting because we as caregivers and teachers are role models to the children in our care and as this theory shows they do as we do so we have to make sure we are modeling positive behavior so they can repeat positive behavior.

    What teachers can do to support social-emotional development in young children (include Erikson and Bandura and Kohlberg in your response)?There are many ways as teachers and caregivers that we can help support a Childs social and emotional development. three specific ways according to the three different theories are 1.
    Erickson’s Theory: we have to support the children in our care as they go through these different stages in our care like trust; making sure your their when the infant needs you (wants to eat, wants attention)
    Bandura’s Theory: We have to make sure we role model positive behavior. (kind of like monkey see monkey do)
    Kohlberg Theory: with this theory as caregivers we learn about our children and how they view things. we have to make sure that the children in our care know that positive behavior is reinforced negative behavior is not and encourage positive behavior.

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