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This 5 page paper identifies three of the categories of social-emotional skills and responds to specific questions. The paper discusses how the home and the classroom can help and inhibit the development of the identified social-emotional skills. specific theorists identified are Erikson, Bruner, Maslow and Vygotsky. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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success in their endeavors. Walberg calls social-emotional skills emotional intelligence (Elias, 2003) but it does seem to be more encompassing to this writer. The purpose of Elias and Walberg is
to encourage schools to teach social and emotional skills along with academics and to teach those skills deliberately. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning has identified essential
skills for academic and social-emotional learning. These are classified into specific categories, three of which are: Make responsible decisions; Care for others; and Know how to act (Elias, 2003, p.
9). Each incorporates a number of specific skills to learn. A child learns these skills first at home. Parents can help their children by direct teaching, correction and modeling.
Knowing how to act is learned through instruction and practice (Christophersen and VanScoyoc, 2005). Learning about caring for others can be taught through sharing in the home (Christophersen and VanScoyoc,
2005). To make responsible decisions, parents can discuss issues with their children showing them how to analyze the alternatives and how to determine which would be the best option (Christophersen
and VanScoyoc, 2005). The qualities needed in the family are openness, communication, honesty and respect. These are the qualities that will help a child gain character and learn social-emotional skills.
A family that is dysfunctional or where the basic needs of survival do not exist will have a greater challenge to teach these lessons. It is not impossible, it is
just more difficult. One theorist who explains this is Maslow who devised a Needs Hierarchy. Maslow proposed a needs hierarchy that included deficiency needs and growth needs. Deficiency needs are
those things needed for survival, safety and self-esteem. Safety needs incorporate social-emotional needs such as relationships with others. Studies of children between the ages of 9 and 14 who
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