Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning [SEL]
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:
- The Foundation of Social-Emotional Learning
- Social-Emotional Development
- Temperament
- Influences on Social-Emotional Learning I
- Influences on Social-Emotional Learning II
- Building Positive Relationships
- Classroom Preventive Practices I
- Classroom Preventive Practices II
- Classroom Preventive Practices III
- Understanding Behavior I
- Understanding Behavior II
- Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies I
- Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies II
- Intensive Individualized Interventions I
- 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).