Seven Skills for School Success: Activities to Develop Social and Emotional Intelligence in Young Children

by Pam Schiller PhD

Overview

What do children need to learn first? Their ABCs? Their numbers? As it turns out, the “what” children need to develop is their social intelligence and emotional intelligence, the essential building blocks for all future learning. Best-selling author Pam Schiller provides information, activities, and experiences that develop the seven skills children need in order to become successful learners. These include social intelligence skills, such as relating to and playing with others, as well as emotional intelligence skills, such as expressing feelings and understanding how others feel. Strengthen the foundation children need to become successful learners with the seven skills in this practical, easy-to-use book!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876591468
Publisher:	Gryphon House Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Pam Schiller, Ph.D., is an early childhood author, consultant, and highly sought after speaker. She has written numerous articles for early childhood journals, including Child Care Information Exchange and Texas Child Care Quarterly. Pam is the author of five early childhood curriculums, eleven children's books and more than 30 teacher and parent resource books.

Interviews

Teachers and caregivers of children ages 3-6

Editorial Reviews

Some skills are absolutely necessary. "Seven Skills for School Success: Activities to Develop Social & Emotional Intelligence in Young Children" is a unique approach to education, saying that the most important thing for a child to learn is not a truly academic subject at all, but instead seven emotional and social skills that will prepare a child for the other tasks. Confidence, empathy, willpower, and more, "Seven Skills for School Success" comes to teachers to better help them mentor their students in what is really important. - Midwest Review

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