Mrs Gerard's ECE Classroom

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This activity is an assignment I give my Early Childhood Education students in our Children and Families course. Students use these guided questions to take notes on the following video (available on Youtube - 37 minutes long) Caring for Your Newborn Video LinkThis is a great product if you are teaching in a distance learning environment. This product includes a Google Doc with guided questions for students to follow along with as they watch the video. The video covers the following concepts:

These guided video notes were created to follow along with the video called "The Period of Purple Crying", which can be found on YouTube. This video discusses The Period of Purple Crying (what caregivers can expect from an infant in the first year of life), Shaken Baby Syndrome, and strategies and tools for new parents and caregivers to cope with the crying. The notes follow along with the video and ask students to fill in a table with information about each letter in PURPLE, and asks them to

With this product you will receive the following:Article Response Guided Reading Notes for Emotional Intelligence in the WorkplaceTeacher KEY for the Guided Reading NotesEmotional Intelligence Interview ChecklistThis article discusses what emotional intelligence competencies are and how those competences impact employees in the workplace. The guided reading notes and response to this article ask students to identify those competencies. Students are then asked to create potential interview questi

This is an assignment I created for my Child Development students. The movie Inside Out has many amazing Social-Emotional themes within it. As a class, we watch the movie together. Students use the video notes sheet to take note of their thoughts and observations as we watch. After the movie, we break into groups, and do the Poster Walk assignment. In this assignment, groups make posters with questions about the movie and post them around the classroom. Groups walk around to each poster and ad

This product goes along with the Temperament in Early Childhood Lecture Slides. After students learn about the 9 different temperamental traits, they can use this activity to reflect on their own experiences with the trait.Included in this Google Slide activity:Description of activity (create a visual representation of your unique 9 traits)Example fingerprintReflective writing promptOnce you purchase this Google Slide activity you will be able to edit it. You will see that I have used my own tem

This product contains a practice activity for students who have learned about the nine temperamental traits. This product is a great follow up activity to the Temperament in Early Childhood Lecture Presentation. In this activity, students will get a chance to practice applying their knowledge of the temperamental traits to case studies of young children. This product includes: Google Slide (6 Slides) activity that instructs students to read two case studies of young children and identify their t

After learning about the Multiple Intelligences (by Howard Gardner) and the 9 Temperamental Traits, students can participate in this fun and engaging activity encouraging them to research their favorite celebrities, and then guess their intelligences and temperament traits. This activity guides students to research different aspects of a celebrity's life and create a bio about their strengths, weaknesses, and personal traits. After creating their bios, teachers can have them trade assignments a

This product is a student self-reflection assignment to either introduce the concept of emotional intelligence, or to help students dive deeper into self-evaluating their E.I. skills. In this product, students will complete a series of self-reflective activities including: Identifying, Regulating, and Expressing EmotionsDealing with AngerAssertivenessSelf-Regard and BalanceSelf-ActualizationSelf-EsteemConfidencePositive Self-TalkThis product is in the form of a Google Doc (13 pages). Students

This is a 2-page worksheet that follows along with the YouTube video called InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning. Youtube Video Link This video discusses executive functions skills in early childhood, how to identify those in the classroom, and how to help children build their executive functions. Also in the video is a call to action to Early Childhood educators to support the development of these skills in young children, because of the large impact it makes on the lives

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These guided reading notes were created for students to use while reading this excellent article by Alfie Kohn about praise. https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/five-reasons-stop-saying-good-job/ The article is called, Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job". In this article the author describes the developmental risks associated with over-stating "good job" to children and offers suggestions for better and more purposeful verbal interactions with children aimed at developing intrinsic motivation.