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Age: Preschooler

Characteristics:

Curious about everything they see and hear

Do not have the ability to understand other people’s emotions or perceptions

Strong creativity and imagination

Areas of Development

Social and Emotional Development

Cognitive Development

Language Development

Tools of the mind

Assumption:

Many children come to school lacking the self-regulation that is necessary for learning and academic success

Process:

Increase in self-regulation through participation in Tools curriculum provides:

Outcomes:

Achieve self-regulation, focused attention and deliberate memory.

Ability to interact with peers positively.

Literacy and Math skills.

Arizona Early Learning Standards

Standard 1: Socio-Emotional

Core of the standards, sets the foundation of all other learnings and life-long success.

Strengthens children's confidence when facing challenges, exploring new environment and interacting with peers.

Estebalish social-emotional skills is positive to children's learning, especially cognitive development.

Strand 1: Self-Awareness and emotional skills

Ability to undestand and recognize one's self as individual.

Concept 3: Self regulation

Children's abilities to control their expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors.

Obtain ability to control their pulses with decreasing support from adults = develop self control.

Strand 1: Self-Awareness and emotional skills

Ability to undestand and recognize one's self as individual.

Concept 3: Self regulation

Children's abilities to control their expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors.

Obtain ability to control their pulses with decreasing support from adults = develop self control.

Make assessment part of the learning process.