Blog 18: Fouth Interview Preparation

1. What is the most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their student’s social and emotional development?
2. What kinds of outdoor activities can help children develop their social-emotional development?
3. What kinds of indoor activities can develop a student’s social-emotional development?
4. What is a good technique to get a child to open up to a teacher?
5. What technique has worked for you to get to know a child? How were the results?
6. What are some signs that a child needs more attention in developing their social-emotional development?
7. If a child usually self-talks, what should a teacher do to help them talk with others? What is the best technique?
8. Some children may be too shy to approach others. How would a teacher help the child interact other students without breaking down
9. When a child uses destructive self talk, what should a teacher do? Why?
10. How can a preschool teacher get a child involved in group play if he just wants to isolate himself?
11. What kind of one-on-one can a parent do with their child to see what they can do to improve their child's social-emotional development at home?
12. Since there are alternative ways in school to do discipline a child without "time out", what are good techniques to discipline a child at home?
13. What programs do you recommend to parents to put their child in if they have difficulty developing their social-emotional development?
14. Knowing that the preschool age group is still working on language development, what is a good way to teach them words to express their feelings?
15. I read that nursery rhymes could help a child learn. How can nursery rhymes help a child’s social-emotional development?
16. These days, many kids love watching TV. What kinds of shows or videos could help a child develop their social-emotional development?
17. Do you have any good storybooks that could help develop a child’s social-emotional development? If so, what are a few good books?
18. I learned from another teacher that it would be best to get to know a child to see their social-emotional development level. Working with many kids, how do you get one-on-one with a child to learn about them?
19. Is there a technique that all preschool teachers use to develop all their student's social-emotional development although they might be at different levels? If there is, what is that technique and how is it taught to the students?
20. Could interaction with animals help a child's social-emotional development? How?

Blog 17: Third Answer

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:
EQ

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

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

• The most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their students' social and emotional development is to observe and get to know the child to see what they need to work on.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

• All children are different; age and skill level

• Can’t teach same strategy that teaches a 5 year old to a 3 year old because they won't understand it

• See what child like to do and get them to teach other students

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

• Play: The Pathway from Theory to Practice by Sandra Heidemann and Deborah Hewitt

• Interview 3

Concluding Sentence

• Before you could actually teach a child, you have to know what level they are at. You have to know what they know and find out what ways can help them learn.

February Additional Blog

February! This month, we celebrated Valentine's Day and all our friends at the Y gave out treats. Each of the kids had made a mailbox (with a shoe box) to hold all their treats. Since the kids get really hyper with sugar, we had to hold their mailboxes on a top self until their parents came to pick them up.

(Gifts from my mentor and other teachers)

I haven't been going to mentorship much this month, but I know that the theme for most of our arts and crafts was music. I cut out musical notes for the kids to glue on their music sheets and they made musical instruments (2D ones).

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.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I plan on continuing on coming up with activities to do with the children and asking my mentor about training days. I’ll look online for project activities (arts and crafts), song activities (dancing), or role-playing.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will suggest activities to my mentor, prepare them, and explain how to make it to the children. I will take pictures of the completed projects of my students’ or make my own.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

This will help me see if my answer 2 to my essential question, which is to have children engage in play to have hands on experience with emotions, is an effective strategy.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Sabrina's Senior Project Hours

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• • LITERAL
  (a)  I, Sabrina Dalan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 hours and 10 minutes of work.
  (b) My mentor, Jenny Zymora, suggested sites like Pintrest or other blogs that preschool teachers have to come up with fun activities.
  (c) Sabrina's Senior Project Hours
  (d) Most of the time I would be in the classroom, I would help prepare the activities of suggest more activities we could do. I always assisted the children with doing the activities and helping them get the materials they needed. I supervised them when they had scissors and reminded them to put on their aprons when they were painting. I observe how the children interacted with each other.
  • INTERPRETIVE
  This component has been really significant to me because I learned and understand the importance of preschool. It's not just arts and crafts, nap time or playtime. It does not only prepare you for the academic learning such as writing your name, counting, or learning the alphabet. It prepares you for life. Preschool teachers help you develop many life skills.
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
  The component helped me understand that the children's fine motor, sensory, social, and emotional development are being developed. I know one of the preschool teachers explained to me how preschool is the foundation of a child's success in school. Without preschool, a child may enter kindergarten without the proper skills needed in life. The activities that we do really practice these certain skills.

January extra blog post

This month, I haven't been going to my mentorship, but sadly, when I went, my mentor told me she moved to the morning half of the class. She introduced me to the new teachers, Miss Lucy and Miss Cathy. Since they were still getting used to the new schedule, they asked me what the kids usually did with Miss Jenny. I explained to them what we usually do and helped them learn the students' names.

Since I don't have any pictures from mentorship this month, I'll just show you pictures of some of the books I thought were useful for my Lesson 2 presentation.

This book helped me with my research and presentation because it gave me some ideas for my answer. It suggested more strategies on what to do to promote a preschool students' social-emotional development such as expanding their vocabulary with a word chart. 

Also, it explained why time outs should not be given to preschoolers.

This book helped me think of my second answer. In the 2 chapters I read in this book for research, it talked about the kinds of play young children go through and how it helps them promote their social-emotional development.