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• School-age educators should support children to become Socially-Emotionally Competent people.

Self-Awareness

• Understanding your emotions and thoughts and how they influence your behavior
• Skills include identifying emotions, self-perception, recognizing strengths, and self-confidence

Self-Management

• The ability to regulate your emotions and behaviors in different situations and set and work toward goals
• Skills include executive function, self-regulation, stress management, and self-discipline.

Positive Relationships

• Create positive relationships with children by Helping children feel welcome, comfortable, and supported
• Recognize positive accomplishments
• Treat children with respect
• Listen to what children say
• Respond to children with interest, acceptance, and appreciation
• Being consistent and following through on what you say you will do

Active listening

• Practice active listening to show you are paying attention, understand what they are saying, and validate their feelings
• Repeat or retell what the speaker is speaking respectfully
• For example, you might say, "It sounds like you're having a difficult time working with Jamie on the rocket project. You don't feel like he's listening to you. What have you tried already?"

Communication

• Take time each day to speak directly with as many children and youth as you can
• Taking time to talk can help build relationships and connections and make children and youth comfortable speaking with you

Strategies to Support Positive Guidance

• Realize that social skills are complicated and take many years to fully learn.
• Reduce the need for children to engage in mistaken behavior
• Practice positive adult-child relations
• Use intervention methods that are solution oriented
• Build partnerships with families
• Use teamwork with other adults

Family Engagement

• Families provide a window into culturally responsive experiences
• Invite families to share meaningful experiences
• Provide opportunities for families of children in your program to meet and get to know each other
• Invite families to observe and participate in some of your program activities
• Send home books about emotions and social-emotional skills with children
• Encourage families to nurture social-emotional skills at home by extending some of your classroom and school experiences in the home environment

Family Partnerships

• Communication is key to creating family partnerships
• Family members must feel comfortable asking questions, seeking information, and raising concerns about their child's care, well-being, and development
• It is good to be friendly, professional, and helpful when working with family members
• A relationship between a staff member and a family member should remain professional and revolve around the child
• Communication is unique in school-age programs because of the limited interactions between staff members and family
• Ensure that communication needs between yourself and the families are met by being creative in your communication methods