Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

What is the most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their students' social and emotional development?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective strategy to use to develop a preschoolers' social-emotional development is to teach them Emotional self-regulation, which will help children understand, identify, and manage their own and others feelings.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective strategy to use to develop a preschoolers' social-emotional development is to teach them through play so they have hands on experience with their emotions and others emotions.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1.  Children love to play

2. In play, children have to communicate to get a turn with a toy or to join the game.

3. Children could learn how to manage their emotions with roleplay.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

"Play: The Pathway From Theory to Practice" by Sandra Heidemann and Debbie Hewitt [book]

"Support Social and Emotional Development - Through Play!" by Zrinka Peters [article]

6.  What other source supports your answer?

My interview 3.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Because children always think about play, why not make learning fun by teaching them about emotions through play.