Today, Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker are back at it again answering questions from our listeners. Need tips for working on social and emotional learning skills for the little ones? Tune in to today's episode for more information, tips, and more!
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Lisa Dieker:
Welcome to practical access. I am Lisa Dieker.
Rebecca Hines:
And I'm Rebecca Hines. And today we will be answering a question. at the opposite end of where we usually are, we'll be talking about the little kid. Lisa, what's the question?
Lisa Dieker:
Well, before we started, I have to tell you the funniest thing quick laugh,
Rebecca Hines:
you're gonna,
Lisa Dieker:
one of my kindergarten friends said her biggest problem is that kids are keeping their boogers inside their mouth, because like that was more information than I needed. So with that information that I need, here we go.
Unknown:
My name is Connie Wilder's the grade is pre K, and the competence social emotional learning. And my question is, how can teachers target social emotional learning skills throughout the day in early learners?
Lisa Dieker:
All day long, we want them not to have those boogers in their mouth. Sorry, sorry. But yeah, I mean, I think I think it starts with the beginning of the day. And I'm going to just start really quickly with a really, really simple put a goal on the board, put it in words, put it in picture, you know, because we shouldn't just assume because they're little they can't read, you know,
Rebecca Hines:
again, that's where I'd start. Well, I agree over and repetition matters. Planning matters with little kids. So this idea of plan do review as your your daily pattern. So in the morning, social emotional wise, and again, if you're working online, it's different because now you don't have that same sit on the carpet together feel and recreating that can be tricky. So let's
Lisa Dieker:
Well, and I know Becky, I'm gonna throw this back to you. And then I've got a couple of just websites to share. But I know you've done a lot of work in multiple school kinds of settings for like, where do you find the curriculum? Where do you start? You know, I mean, there's 5000 YouTube videos out there. And I'm pretty sure listeners are a little too busy to come through all those do you have kind of a framework are some work that you have seen or done that's really kind of taken that and spiraled that up
Rebecca Hines:
over time? Well, if I were teaching pre k right now, I would definitely look for a an existing curriculum to help me with some of this SEL work. And I would probably turn first to something that is free like Sanford harmony now. I think their website has now changed to just harmonysel.org and Sanford harmony is what it was previously called. So that's what I'll keep referring
Lisa Dieker:
SEL like social emotional learning, okay, just making sure and so
Rebecca Hines:
the whole point of this particular content is to address social emotional needs. And the great thing is, it comes prepackaged with songs with goals. Again, we could sit down as a class, in person or online in the morning, pull up today's goal and we can let it be driven by the harmony curriculum. The materials available for free, which is probably the very best thing about it, and
Lisa Dieker:
Yeah, and it's interesting, because there's so much out there, you know, we've got pbs.org that has great resources, we've got, you know, Conscious Discipline, restorative justice, there's, there's a lot of wonderful tools out there. And one that I really liked to look at as an anchor is the Wonder Grove kids, we happen to have the chance of meeting the great guy who started he five friends that you were nice to and you want five more make it part of math, read a story about being nice, you know, if nice is the theme for the day, everything needs to be about nice. It's really nice when you line up, right? It's really nice when you go into the lunchroom to tell the ladies Thank you for the food that you have whatever it is, make it that it's not just about one part
Rebecca Hines:
and over again, I think that's a good reminder, for all of us. Be nice all day. And I'm going to go back to harmony one more time, just to mention that on their website, they do have support for SEL for families and educators for remote learning. So I think that that's a really nice feature that they've added. Sanford harmony was originally created by a benefactor who was just
Lisa Dieker:
Yeah, I don't know about you, Becky. But in every night class or any class, I'm teaching online, there's always if I show something engaging, some little child pops up on the screen. And I have to say, pG 13. Again, do you know that people are listening and you just don't know in those remote environments, but I even think that's a nice invite to you. And I know Becky, you've done a