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Developing Social And Emotional Skills In Early Childhood Instruction: A Delphi Study, Tess Breen
Developing Social And Emotional Skills In Early Childhood Instruction: A Delphi Study, Tess Breen
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Purpose: The purpose of this Delphi study was to explore social and emotional learning in early childhood instruction with an emphasis on identifying the methods expert early childhood teachers use to support and promote the development of empathy and emotion regulation, to have the teachers rate the impact of these methods, and to identify the specific activities used to implement the six most highly rated methods.
Methodology: This study utilized the Delphi method which is an iterative process used to collect and distill the judgments of experts using a series of questionnaires interspersed with feedback. Fourteen participants recommended strategies to …