College of Education and Health Professions

Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning [SEL]

 

Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning

Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning (Pre-K SEL) provides teachers of three- to five-year-olds knowledge and skills to build warm relationships with children, parents and co-workers; create positive and productive classroom climates; prevent challenging behavior; manage disruptive behavior and teach children new skills so they enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Pre-K SEL is designed to:

  • Advance understanding of how children develop social and emotional skills.
  • Present techniques for developing positive relationships with children, families and colleagues.
  • Provide tools and strategies for implementing preventive classroom practices that support development and appropriate behavior.
  • Enhance knowledge and skills in order to implement social and emotional teaching strategies.
  • Present methods for implementing intensive individualized interventions for those children displaying challenging behaviors.

What does Pre-K SEL offer teachers?

  • FREE specialized training for 45 hours
  • Training experiences that promote social-emotional skills for children ages three to five
  • FREE participant manual and other materials
  • A Certificate of Completion and CEUs

Pre-K SEL Includes 15 lessons:

  1. The Foundation of Social-Emotional Learning
  2. Social-Emotional Development
  3. Temperament
  4. Influences on Social-Emotional Learning I
  5. Influences on Social-Emotional Learning II
  6. Building Positive Relationships
  7. Classroom Preventive Practices I
  8. Classroom Preventive Practices II
  9. Classroom Preventive Practices III
  10. Understanding Behavior I
  11. Understanding Behavior II
  12. Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies I
  13. Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies II
  14. Intensive Individualized Interventions I
  15. Intensive Individualized Interventions II

For more information contact:

Robin Jones, M.S.
Interim Training Advisor
800-632-8754 • 479-575-3856
rgcaudl@uark.edu

To check for available classes and training opportunities visit Traveling Arkansas' Professional Pathways (TAPP).