LAMCCD 2

Week 8

Ch 10: Social Development

• Skills that lead to future success:• The ability to form caring relationships with other people;• To cooperate with others;• To share;• To listen to others;• To use self-control (emotion self-regulation);• To pay attention;• To follow directions.

• Behavior & social problems in preschool predict academic problems in elementary (i.e. – language & literacy competencies).• Pro-social behavior: behavior intended to help others.• Teacher can encourage children to be pro-social

Caring & Peaceable Children

• 6 goals to model:1. Value each person’s integrity2. Reach out to people in caring ways; model altruism3. Respect human differences4. Demonstrate how to serve & care for others5. Charitable behavior; teach: it feels good to give6. Develop & express a belief in the goodness of people.

Social Learning/Albert Bandura (1925/ Canada)

• Humans learn through social interactions (imitation).

• Children have control over their own behavior and behavior of those around them.

• Distinguishes between the acquisition and performance of new responses.

Imitation of behavior is based on 4 components:

a) Attentional Processes

b) Retention Processes

c) Motor reproduction processes

d) Reinforcemnt/Motivational Processes

Goals that have long term social value…

Pgs. 261 -273i. Help children develop empathyii. Help children to be generous, altruistic, able to share…iii. Help children learn that being kind feels goodiv. Help children that everyone has rights & these rights are

respected…v. Emphasize the value of cooperation & compromise, not

competition & winningvi. Help children discover the pleasures of friendshipsvii. Help children with special needs be included in the group