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How to Use This Textbook?

Background for This Book

More than a quarter of children in Singapore have experienced or are experiencing school bullying or violence against children; The traditional concept of using corporal punishment to educate children is still largely popular in Asia; Violence against children remains a worldwide problem.

Advantages and Contribution of This Book

For children - when teachers or parents accompany the children to study this book, the benefits of this book for children include:

Improving the relationship between children and adults, and preventing child violence;
Improving the relationship between children;
Promote children's social and emotional expression, recognition, and reaction capabilities;
Strengthening children's sense of identity and belonging to the family, school, and community.

For parents - parents have the opportunity to accompany their children to study this book together, the following benefits include:

Strengthening parent-child communication;
In the process of children's social and emotional development, parenting methods that displays care and empathy are the key factors to prevent violence against children and make them grow up healthily.
Promote family harmony.
Subverting the traditional concept of using corporal punishment to educate children;

For society - children are the future of society. The benefits of this book to society include:

Avoid or reduce child violence incidents;
Increase social positive energy;
Improve the level of civilization of all mankind.

How to Use This Textbook?

The textbook of Social-emotional development for toddlers (level-1) is including 4 chapters. Among the 4 chapters, chapter 3 is the core, which contains 16 emotional vocabularies refined by early childhood education experts, suitable for toddlers aged 1.5-3.

1. If you are a preschool teacher

Please refer to the time-table under Appendix to set aside 30 minutes every day to engage your class to the activities of social-emotional development to let students recognize and perform the 16 emotions in various scenarios. It is recommended to let toddlers learn 2 to 4 emotional vocabulary every day with the 16 color emotional cards in the Appendix. After 3 weeks, you may organize a test for your students and record how many emotional cards were recognized and performed by each individual student. For comparison, you may test another group who did not take the class of social-emotional development with the textbook. If the 16 emotions were not fully recognized and performed by students, do not worry, you can repeat the process, which would mean taking another 3 weeks to let your students learn it. It is normal for a toddler who is able to recognize and perform the 16 emotions within one year.

[Example]

You may refer to the timetable below and work out one for your class according to your actual situation.

2. If you are a parent of a preschool student

Set aside 10 minutes every day to engage your kid to recognize and perform the 16 emotions in various scenarios. It is recommended to let your kid learn 2 to 4 emotional vocabulary every day with the 16 color emotional cards in the Appendix. After 3 weeks, you may organize a test for your kid and record how many emotional cards can be recognized and performed by him or her. If the 16 emotions were not fully recognized and performed by him or her, do not worry, you can repeat the process, which means another 3 weeks to let your kid learn it. It is normal for a toddler who is able to recognize and perform the 16 emotions within one year.

[Example]

You may refer to the timetable below and work out one for your child according to your actual situation.

3. Learning effect test

Take 3 weeks as a learning cycle, and test each child who participated in the 4th week. The results of each test should be properly recorded to track and compare the degree of progress.

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