When it comes to preschool education there are two lines of thought. One says that preschoolers need to be taught early academic skills in order to get a leg up on future school achievement. Another says the focus should be on social and emo
On a broader level, social competence reflects children’s effectiveness in social interactions and could manifest through social skills, popularity, positive social relationships, and successful pursuit of social goals (Rose-Krasnor, 1997). The extant literature on social competence has shown that ...
Why do we need to assess preschoolers' emotional and social competence? We have made clear throughout the previous chapters that we see universal social-emotional programming as a prime goal, so that every preschooler might be exposed to the salutary effects of their caregivers' efforts to ...
Preschoolers, on the other hand, are more likely to view all adult's purposefulactionsas part of the social interaction, perhaps even as social norms, and thus imitate them as faithfully as possible. This enables imitation to be a source, not just for learning about objects (e.g., how a...
children learn how to initiate and maintain social interactions with other children. They learn skills for managing conflict, such as turn-taking, compromise, and bargaining. Play also involves the mutual, sometimes complex, coordination of goals, actions, and understanding. Fo...
students to resolve this crisis in favor ofindustryor success. They can set realistic academic goals for students—ones that tend to lead to success—and then provide materials and assistance for students to reach their goals. Teachers can also express their confidence that students ...
The goals of language education in Morocco remain unclear, leading to a focus on language forms rather than the use of language classrooms to teach language arts, critical thinking, confidence in self-expression, creativity in language use, and all the remaining skills and competencies that allow ...
Critically, however, infants' early social cognitive knowledge has consequences not only for their social interactions, but also for learning across domains. Infants use their knowledge of goals, intentions, perceptions, emotions, dispositions and preferences to engage in language learning,6,7 imitative...
Behavioral self-regulation refers to the ability of individuals to plan, control or change behaviors and thoughts to achieve goals (Grabell et al.,2017; Cameron Ponitz et al.,2008). As a foundational domain-general skill, children’s behavioral self-regulation provides a proximal basis for their...
Gender might also play a role in the relationship between reading skills and well-being. Overall, during the first years of schooling, girls have better language skills, compared to boys (Katzir, et al.,2018; Voyer & Voyer,2014). Additionally, adolescent girls have shown a stronger effect of...