Week 4 Journal

Prior to beginning work on this journal

· Read Why a Child’s Social-Emotional Skills Are so Important (Links to an external site.).

· Review the Week 4 Journal Template   Download Week 4 Journal Templatethat you will use to complete this assignment

Children with challenging behaviors tend to have difficulty in the social and emotional realm (Bierman & Erath, 2006). Section 7.3 lists several reasons why social and emotional skills are important.

Besides helping children make friends and get along with others, social and emotional skills enable them to:

· behave more appropriately

· recognize and manage their emotions

· have less stress and anxiety

· perform better academically

· set and achieve positive goals

· make responsible decisions

· appreciate the perspective of others

· gain self-confidence and self-esteem

· resolve conflicts more readily and less aggressively

· avoid peer rejection and victimization

· lower their risk for later delinquency and violence

For this journal, you will reflect on three of the above reasons discuss how those positive effects will help children during various points within their lives.

In your journal, address the following items:

· Choose three of these effects of social and emotional skills and respond to the following questions. (You will include one paragraph for each example.)

· Name the effect (e.g., behave more appropriately).

· Explain how this effect will help the child make friends and get along with others.

· Explain how this effect will help the child academically.

· Explain how this effect will benefit the child later in life.

· Explain how you could teach this effect in the classroom.

The Week 4 Journal

· Must be one to two double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.) resource.

· Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.

· Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

· For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the UAGC Writing Center resources.

· Must reference the course text.

· The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.

· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the UAGC Writing Center for specifications.