Read the following teacher behaviors and verbalizations. Write the numbers of those you think would help a child develop healthy social-emotional skills.
a. Recognizing each child by name as the child enters.
b. Pointing out (to others) a child’s inability to sit still.
c. Telling a child it is all right to hate you.
d. Keeping a child’s special toy safe.
e. Encouraging a child’s saying, “I’m not finished,” when another child grabs his or her toy.
f. Saying, “Jerome (child) thinks we should ask the janitor, Mr. Smith, to eat lunch with us.”
g. Saying, “Hitting makes me angry. It hurts.”
h. Planning activities that are either “girls only” or “boys only.”
i. Encouraging children who show kindness to others.
j. Allowing a child to make fun of another child and then neglecting to speak to the first “fun maker” about it.
k. Changing the rules and rewards often.
l. Ignoring an irritating behavior that seems to be happening more frequently.