Educator Website: Understanding the Centrality of Social-Emotional Education to Schooling

Educators are in a unique position to, directly and indirectly, influence children’s development. By being informed and having access to current information and resources, educators can empower themselves and their students to be intentional about social and emotional learning and development. Teachers also have a unique opportunity to encourage families to be mindful of how to support social and emotional development at home.
Create a website, using a free website platform, for fellow educators that examine the importance of social/emotional learning. Include the following elements:
Discuss the effect that prenatal development and care and early childhood experiences can have on adolescent social and emotional development.
Select three developmental stages (prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, or adolescence) and provide specific social/emotional milestones for each of the selected stages.
Share two social-emotional learning strategies or activities for each selected developmental stage that teachers can implement in the classroom.
Define and provide examples of self-regulation. Identify two or three specific ways teachers can model and encourage the development of self-regulation skills in the classroom.
Provide families with social and emotional learning strategies and/or self-regulation skills to implement at home to support their child’s social/emotional development within the selected developmental stages.
Note: if you choose late elementary or adolescent stages, suicide and self-harm are appropriate and important topics to include.
The website should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.
Support your findings with 2-3 scholarly resources.
While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.