Course | Social Emotional Competence Course

Prices

Original price: NZ$132 (excluding GST).

The price listed reflects the Enrol Yourself option. Other pricing options for this course are available.

• Enrol Others and Yourself: NZ$112.20 per person (excluding GST)
• Enrol Others Not Yourself: NZ$112.20 per person (excluding GST)

All prices are subject to GST (local sales tax) of 15%. Lifetime access means for as long as the product is hosted on The Education Hub. 12-month access starts on the date of purchase. Group discounts apply to the full price, and can only be applied in one transaction, not retrospectively, or on the addition of more enrolments.

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Description

This online course is designed to help early childhood teachers and leaders understand the different elements of social and emotional competence, including social skills, emotion knowledge, and self-regulation. It includes a special focus on supporting neurodivergent children, and takes a close look at understanding children’s challenging behaviours.

Learning objectives:
• Understand the importance of social and emotional competence to children’s learning and wellbeing in early childhood and throughout life.
• Learn about strategies and approaches for supporting the development of social and emotional competence in early childhood settings.

What You'll Learn on This Course

• Part 1: What is social and emotional competence?
This first part of the course introduces and unpacks the concept of social and emotional competence into its various components, while considering how they are interlinked and the part they play in children’s wider learning across the lifespan.

• Part 2: Positive social and emotional climates
Explores how a positive climate contributes to children’s sense of wellbeing, and provides the confidence, safety, and security children need in order to grow further social and emotional competencies, as well as strategies for evaluating and enhancing your setting’s climate.

• Part 3: Learning about and managing emotions
Details the emotion knowledge children need to learn in order to be emotionally competent and pedagogies for teaching about emotions, including information on how to support children who experience intense emotions.

• Part 4: Social competence
Explores how direct and intentional teaching can scaffold children’s social skills as well as examining peer conflicts and considering how these might be used as a context for learning social skills.

• Part 5: Developing self-regulation and executive function
Describes the different components of executive function and their relation to social and emotional competence as well as a range of simple strategies and games for enhancing children’s executive function, some of which are illustrated by teachers in case study early childhood settings.

• Part 6: Neurodivergence and social emotional competence
Explores neurodivergent children’s particular strengths and needs in regard to developing social and emotional knowledge and skills and considers specific strategies that may support neurodivergent children’s social and emotional competence.

• Part 7: Challenging behaviour and social emotional skills
Focuses on so-called challenging behaviours and offers a set of supports and actions that can be put together to provide individualised and tailored support for the children having most difficulty developing social and emotional competence.

• Part 8: Bringing your learning together
The last part of the course integrates learning from different parts of the course to develop a comprehensive programme for children’s social and emotional learning and to plan some next steps following your participation in this course.

Please note, all of The Education Hub's courses are best completed on a desktop/laptop computer or tablet. Because of the amount of content, they do not recommend using a phone.