Devising Educational Materials Directed At Building Friendships in Birth - 7 Children

We are all raised with our families, but along the way, we have to develop a character that admits others to our life. Teachers can be instrumental in teaching children good character that will enable them to choose friends wisely and know how to do it. To understand that better this paper lists three educational materials which would play a critical role in building friendships.

Videos

Visualizations are an important part of influencing a childs psychological and emotional intelligence (Elias, & Arnold, 2006). Instructors use them to influence children in different perspectives, particularly in building a character that would result in making not just friends, but the right ones. At certain ages, children already do not know about friends, and at best they will interact with anyone. In some cases, they will just avoid people altogether, including instructors. That is why the concept of building friendships is important. What the children are taught can also influence their emotions. For instance, children can get emotionally attached to teachers ones they learn the right characters and approaches. That is possible especially when they learn to view teachers as people who can be helpful to them in different situations.

Videos can play important roles in developing these characters and friendship. Studies recommend allowing children to watch a video while brainstorming with them. The videos should be carefully selected to ensure they have the necessary theme. For instance, the video can have a scenario where a distressed child reaches out to the teacher. The teacher will help the kid. Through that scenario alone, the teacher can engage the kids on what they have seen, and ask them about its importance. At the end of the lesson, the children would have a different perception of their relationship with teachers. The video can extend to other things, where they demonstrate good and bad characters, good individual and bad, then the teacher should use them to guide the children on how to develop friendships.

Assignments

Video can be instrumental in developing emotional and friendships, but other supporting materials should be assignments. Instructors should be able to expose children to different materials, including videos and written texts, and giving them assignments to do based on those materials (Allison & Rehm, 2007). The best type of assignment is when they allow the student to narrate different situations in their life, and what they did. The teacher can then use the assignments as a guide to instructing the children to what is good and what is not. Different scenarios and how they interpret them have a significant impact on their psychology. Affirming the interpretations or explaining them differently to children helps to create lasting impressions in them, often emotional.

Writing Guide to Parents

Parents are the closest people to children, and their role cannot be underrated. Teachers should develop guides and make parents part of the childs learning process. Children are likely to adapt to parents socialization skills, and even adopt the emotional and often linguistic skills (Brustad, 1993). If the teacher is teaching a child something different from what the kid is being taught at home, then confusion is likely to occur. The aim is to integrate the efforts of both the teacher and the parent and make it possible for the kids to the right things at once.

Part of the things the parent can do is to extensively talk with the child about his or her friends, if the parent notes any rejections, he or she can talk with the child on how to deal with it. Those are just a few among the many which parents can help children develop their social skills.

References

Allison, B. N., & Rehm, M. L. (2007). Effective teaching strategies for middle school learners in multicultural, multilingual classrooms. Middle School Journal, 39(2), 12-18.

Brustad, R. J. (1993). Who will go out and play? Parental and psychological influences on childrens attraction to physical activity. Pediatric Exercise Science, 5(3), 210-223.

Elias, M. J., & Arnold, H. (2006). The educator's guide to emotional intelligence and academic achievement: Social-emotional learning in the classroom. Corwin Press.