Child Development

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Your child is growing every day! Learn the developmental tasks involved in the social and emotional development of children with this helpful overview of Erikson's stages of development.

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Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development) $41.00 self-development-books personal-development personal-development personal-development

The tears and fears related to being apart from Mom or Dad can resurface in the toddler and preschool years, posing new challenges for parents and warranting different solutions. As disheartening a…

Jamie Loehr, M.D. and Jen Meyers, authors of "Raising Your Child," say doing these simple activities with your toddler will improve both social and emotional development.

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Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was a pupil of Sigmund Freud and the first child psychoanalyst in Boston. After extensive study of children from various cultural backgrounds and areas he began to compile …

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"Social Scenarios" is a packet of skill building activity cards designed to help students develop strategies for responding to others in an appropriate manner. Students with social skill deficits tend to have more negative interactions with others. They often have difficulty interpreting social cues...

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Did you know that there are millions of people who are suffering from pain and other symptoms brought on by disorders that may appear to be purely physical but originate through unconscious emotions? A few days ago, I had the pleasure of attending the conference: When Stress Causes Pain: Innovative Treatments for Psychophysiologic Disorders that was […]

Aspergers (high functioning autistic) children usually want to fit in and have relationships with other people – they just don’t know how to do so properly. They lack an understanding of conventional social rules and often “appear” to lack empathy. In order to improve socialization, Aspergers kids need to learn and focus on socialization from an “intellectual” standpoint. What may come naturally for those without Aspergers needs concentration by those with it. Perhaps the best socialization…

Activities to support your baby's social and emotional development

A parent coaching intervention brings meaningful benefits for preschool-aged children with autism-spectrum disorders (ASD), according to a clinical trial.

Learn how social and emotional skills are critical for success in school. Plus tips for helping your child develop these important skills.

Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development) $41.00 self-development-books personal-development personal-development

Do your child's moods swing wildly from minute to minute? We've got ways to help smooth the ups and downs.

Touch & Say SD ($0.00) - Verbalization - Emotion recognition - Color recognition - Following directives - Directed gaze (a key step in developing joint attention) "Touch & Say" is for developmentally young children, including most children ages 1-4, and also young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) who may have delayed development in social skills.

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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes, a book by L. S. Vygotsky

In 1991, Allan Luks (former executive director of The Institute for the Advancement of Health and executive director of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program in New York City) documented a study about kindness in a book called "The healing power of doing good: The health and spiritual benefits of helping others". In a survey he conducted among 3,000 people of all ages from 20 organizations around the USA, he found clearly that "Helping contributes to the maintenance of good health and it…

By Marina Kog, Julia Moons and Luk Depondt Research centre for experimental education (Leuven university) This second edition of A box full of feelings is designed specifically to support the social-emotional development of children aged two to seven years. The set is built around four basic feelings: happiness, fear, anger and sadness. The box contains several basic materials to get children involved in more than 20 different activities, all year round. With a great variety of activities to…

This is Your Brain in Meltdown. Scientific American SOURCE: “STRESS SIGNALLING PATHWAYS THAT IMPAIR PREFRONTAL CORTEX STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION,” BY AMY F. T. ARNSTEN, IN NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE, VOL. 10; JUNE 2009

The Responsive Classroom www.responsiveclassroom.org educator resources for socioemotional skills

Everybody worries. Children worry too—in new or confusing situations or when someone is angry with them. This new addition to the acclaimed The Way I Feel Series uses reassuring words and illustrations to address a child’s anxieties and shows ways to feel better. Cornelia Spelman and Kathy Parkinson team up once again to provide a […]

Making Up for Lost Time After Snow Days from the Responsive Classroom

Ways to help the flow of your day with smooth transitions If you work with young children then you naturally have small to big transitions that take place in your classroom. Transitions can be simply described as those times throughout the day when your students change focus from one activity to another. In many cases, transitions

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My class' shoe size on a LINE PLOT. 4th Grade Common Core Curriculum. :)

Okay, so here’s another fabulous dollar store find for your classroom, although I must admit that this one threw me a curve ball. I once…

Print kids pictures and names on post-it notes and use them for class graphs. A great way to generate more excitement for graphing activities in preschool, pre-k, early childhood education.

Task analysis is a staple in most special education classrooms, but there are some important things to know to be effective with them in instruction.

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This post will share many fun Dr. Seuss things we have done this week! We made the Big Book Cat In The Hat, Cat In the Hat, What do You See? You can see the finished book at the bottom of this post. Dr. Suess Big Book Click here for all the words Dr.Seuss Stations This year I had Dr. Seuss Day. I had four different stations with parent helpers. The activities lasted about forty minutes. I wanted three helpers and had eight! The kids did not have to go to every station. I also had parents…

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Looking for fun ways to make a graph? Try these graphing activities for kindergarten!

This post will share many fun Dr. Seuss things we have done this week! We made the Big Book Cat In The Hat, Cat In the Hat, What do You See? You can see the finished book at the bottom of this post. Dr. Suess Big Book Click here for all the words Dr.Seuss Stations This year I had Dr. Seuss Day. I had four different stations with parent helpers. The activities lasted about forty minutes. I wanted three helpers and had eight! The kids did not have to go to every station. I also had parents…

Graphing anchor chart

Stallings in Second: Math/ Graphing Data/ 3-D Shapes/ Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts are a great way to help your students learn and remember what has been taught throughout the year. Here are a few charts that we have made in our classroom this year.

Teaching Graphing through Inquiry

Tally Cat Keeps Track -- a clever children's book for teaching tallying (data collection/graphing) in Gr. 1-3

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DATA ANALYSIS, PROBABILITY AND CONNECTION. Children need to classfy the shoes they are wearing. They sort acoording to the attributes and organize data in a graph. Children use connections among mathematical ideas; they could sort their shoes at home and organize them by attributes.

Teaching graphs with children's books can be a lot of fun! This page lists some of the best books -- all picked by teachers