<p><b>Lindsay N. Giroux, M.Ed.,</b> specializes in coaching preschool teachers on implementing the Pyramid Model to promote social-emotional development and prevent challenging behavior. She is the author of <i>Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom: Helping Young Children Build Their Social Emotional Skills</i> and the We Find Feelings Clues picture book series, as well as a contributing author of Connect4Learning®, a Pre-K curriculum and the ChooseFI Pre-K financial literacy curriculum. Her professional interests include teacher training, social skill instruction, and inclusion of preschoolers with special needs. Lindsay received a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Special Education from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. She is currently the Manager of Educational Quality: Inclusion & Behavior Support for Bright Horizons. She resides in Raleigh, NC with her husband and son.</p><br>
Strategies and activity ideas to support emotional development in children.
What is an emotion-rich classroom? Similar to how a print-rich environment exposes children to a variety of printed materials, an emotion-rich one intentionally surrounds children with a wide range of social emotional learning experiences and supportive interactions. Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom provides frameworks for planning and implementing strategies to support emotional development in children.
This practical and easy-to-use resource helps early childhood educators develop the emotional literacy of the young children in their classrooms. Readers learn how to:
Digital content includes checklists, planning sheets, and other materials to support educators as they build an emotion-rich classroom. A free downloadable PLC/Book Study Guide is available.
What is an emotion-rich classroom? Similar to how a print-rich environment exposes children to a variety of printed materials, an emotion-rich one intentionally surrounds children with a wide range of social emotional learning experiences and supportive interactions. Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom provides frameworks for planning and implementing strategies to support emotional development in children.
This practical and easy-to-use resource helps early childhood educators develop the emotional literacy of the young children in their classrooms. Readers learn how to:
- increase children’s emotional vocabulary
- model how to recognize and cope with various emotions
- support self-regulation and reduce challenging behaviors
- discuss emotions in others and in storybook characters
- support and engage families in fostering emotional skills at home
Digital content includes checklists, planning sheets, and other materials to support educators as they build an emotion-rich classroom. A free downloadable PLC/Book Study Guide is available.