Blog 8 - Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?

How can a preschool teacher help her students develop their behavior and social-emotional skill?

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.

EQ: How can a preschool teacher help her students develop their behavior and social-emotional skill?

• Have a behavior chart (red, yellow, green), “time out”, or take away some privileges
• Have group activities and rotate them to increase child’s engagement
• Use verbal and nonverbal encouragement for positive interactions
• Limit amount or material so children could share

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

I would have to say that the most important source that has helped me come up with this EQ is  Deborah Carter and Renee Norman’s "Class-Wide Positive Behavior Support In Preschool: Improving Teacher Implementation Through Consultation". It mentions the Positive Behavior Program (PBS) which is to help increase children’s adaptive, pro-social behavior and how bad behavior could affect a child’s life.

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

My mentor is Jenny Zamora and I'm working with her at the YMCA in Corona-Norco. What I'm doing at the YMCA is preparing Preschoolers for kindergarten and one of the main things we have to help the children with at the YMCA is their social-emotional skill.