NAEYC Guidelines For Affective Development

Chapter 4 discussed the emotional development developed in the first two years of infants and how it deals with the social world. Infants show different emotions according to their ages. Newborn infants are happy and relaxed when fed and they cry when they are hungry or hurt. About 6 weeks they start to express happiness through the social smile. The different emotions developed through different stages. I remember some of my childhood memories. When I was 6 years old, I started to learn riding motorcycle but one day I felt down and was badly injured. After that, I was scared to ride a motorcycle. This shows that fear is developed inside me. In addition, in the same age, whenever I was alone, I always act as doctor and used to make my Barbie

Teachers should be continually learning and assessing their teaching practices through reflection and collaboration with other teachers. It is the role of the teacher to use these teaching practices to develop in students the abilities and skills that will remain with them throughout life. Teachers should be role models for their students, to provide encouragement and praise, reassuring their students that they can achieve their dreams and reach their goals. Teaching should not only focus on academics but it should also focus on character education. Students need to be prepared to enter into their community and have the ability to interact with people from different backgrounds, cultures, religious backgrounds, social status, and values. It is important that teachers work with students to help them learn the skills of cooperation, patience, communication, empathy, understanding and teamwork, these skills are extremely important for the successful integration into further education, the workforce, family life and other social interactions. Teachers can achieve this through focusing on and encouraging group work, peer tutoring as well as games and activities that focus on social behaviors.

As a teacher it is important to know who you are as a learner because it allows for you to help improve your educational experience and to help increase your knowledge. It also allows for you to open your mind to remembering that every person and every student in unique and how they learn will be completely different from one another. This means that in one class you could have thirty unique learners and it will be your job to make sure that you make each child’s educational experience meaningful to them.

Firstly, the meaning of emotional regulation and Erik Erikson's theory of eight stages of development are depicted, with special emphasis on early childhood. This is done for the purpose of underlining the importance of regular emotional development as opposed to one impaired by abuse.

The emotional and social response the infant, child or young person gives to parents, carers and others outside the family.  Also includes consideration of:

Children will come from a diverse range of backgrounds including family environments, cultures and circumstances. A child is at school from a very young age to late teens and during this time many families will go through significant changes, such as: divorce, new sibling, losing a parent/grandparent, illness, moving house or school or even moving country – sometimes however schools may not always be aware of these changes. Any one of these happenings may affect their emotional and or

Knowing your students’ capabilities, time constraints, hobbies, schema, and socioeconomic status is crucial to teaching. Teachers who are familiar with their students have an advantage in planning their teaching for several reasons. The first is motivation. If a teacher understands what a student likes or dislikes, they can use this to their advantage. For example, if a student is having problems understanding order of operations, hates math, but really loves video games, you could have them explain the order of steps to beat their favorite video game and use that order of operations to show them the mathematical order of operations. In the same way, if a student is from a lower SES and must work a part-time job to help support their family, they may not be motivated to do homework and projects outside of the classroom. Being able to relate the importance of your content to students is key to motivation. If a student is not motivated, they will not learn, much less excel. The transactional Theory states that learning is a transaction between the student, context, and content with purpose. Each of these must be present for students to learn. Creating relevance to our content in each student’s life is critical to learning. We as teachers cannot create the context for learning or relevance if we do not know our students.

Successful teaching occurs when the teacher is able to select the most efficient method for reaching out to each student’s individual style of learning and inspire students to rise to their highest potential. While the responsibilities of a teacher are extensive (as one can serve as a teacher, a friend, a counselor, a disciplinarian, an entertainer, a facilitator), I believe that students should play a big part in shaping own education as well.

Teachers understand how students learn, grow and develop in different ways, such as cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical. The purpose is to develop a great way to deal with challenges in learning development.

1. Chapter 4 “The First Two Years: The Social World” section “Emotional Development” discusses the significance of variety of early emotions that humans have the experience in their life. The most common and basic forms of emotions that infants present as their age is pain and pleasure. Throughout their life, they develop mentally and physically, as well as learning more emotions that enable them to show expressions, reactions, and reasons that trigger those reactions (Berger, 130) During toddlerhood, between the ages of two and up, emotions are strengthened, for example, toddlers’ laughter and cries are more apparent and amplified. Together with their anger and fear becoming less frequent but directed towards experiences that are terrifying and infuriating. In addition, toddlers often have temper tantrums, “when something angers them, they might yell, scream, cry, hit, and throw themselves on the floor” (Berger, 130) Toddlers’ temper tantrums can even cause more tantrums or worsen the situation if a response from an adult or is negative, like out of anger or teasing the child.

In the practice of teaching, it is the responsibility of a teacher not only to teach students subject matter, but to teach students in order to enable them to grow and develop as a person. While it is essential for students to have an understanding of academic material, it is also equally as important that when students finish their education they have skills to use in

In addition to my connection with children, I also learnt that my possession of empathy—the ability to take into account the perspectives or feelings of others and actually experience that emotion yourself—allowed me to further my connection with the children and teachers, fitting into their environment (Berk 2013). Being perceptive and reading the children’s emotions, I was able to avoid making them further upset and lead them into a direction to attain a happier emotional state. Specifically speaking, during my last visit at Head Start I observed a boy Christian being excluded from playing a puzzle with his classmate Ashley. Knowing what being excluding feels like, I was able to empathize with Christians emotions and take action to help him reach a happier state. After talking to Christian and specifically learning why he was upset, I had him directly ask Ashely if he could help solve the puzzle. She agreed and Christian’s emotional state improved. This one instance is a small example of many where my ability to empathize with specific children allowed me to take action to better their

Lack of Emotional regulation could face on the difficulties on the children life and could be risk of psychological issues.

Because self-esteem is influenced by so many different things (e.g. society, media, friends, etc…) it is very important that parents and caretakers take the proper steps in helping a child develop a strong sense of who they are (Nuttall, 1991). By the time a child reaches three years of age they have experienced a very wide range of emotions (Cluff, N.D.) Parents, teachers and caregivers will lay the foundation upon which a child emotionally develops (Cluff, N.D.). Positive emotional development is important for children because this will not only determine their ability to develop healthy relationships with their peers but also how to successfully deal with their own emotions (Cluff, N.D.). Many theorists agree that there is a connection between a child’s emotional levels and development; they also

As a teacher, one’s role and responsibility should be towards the learners’ ability to learn and for learning to be as tailored made for the individual learner.