Social understanding topics and activities allow children to develop collaborative behaviors. Describe how you will encourage collaborative behaviors

• Activities offered to encourage social-emotional understanding can also:


• build the children’s knowledge, concepts, and pride of their own family identity.


• foster positive views about our multicultural and multilingual society.


• respond to the diversity of the children’s cultures and languages.


• all of the above

• Early care and learning programs are generally the first group situation outside the family and home and allow children:


• to function best in large groups.


• to interact in environments different from their own communities.


• to gain a sense of community.


• to develop skills whenever they arrive with abilities to cooperate.

• Aesthetics:


• is an essential part of the early childhood curriculum.


• provide children with chances to discover nature, beauty, and art.


• is particularly important for young children because it involves their thinking abilities and not their senses.


• is most valuable during teacher-guided activities because it is the only time children develop a sense of wonder.

• Aesthetic development with art is valuable because:


• appropriate art activities encourage relaxation, exploration, and pleasure.


• children benefit when activities are soothing.


• concepts in other curriculum areas develop while children enjoy aesthetic activities.


• all of the above

• Appreciation of art:


• limits experiences to art materials in programs for young children.


• offers school-age children an understanding of design; a topic that is not appropriate for early childhood curriculum.


• extends children’s experiences to see beauty in nature, their communities, and within their cultures.


• may not include an activity about ancient art work, a topic beyond preschool’s cognitive understanding.

• Creative dramatics in early childhood programs:


• includes two categories, dramatic play and sociodramatics.


• consistently refers to pretending, imagining, and playing.


• offers young children experiences only in the area of dramatic play.


• rarely provides young children with opportunities to develop skills besides play behaviors.

• Affective development with social understanding may offer children opportunities to:


• understand themselves, their families, and their communities.


• acquire prosocial skills.


• become responsible and caring citizens.


• all of the above

• Social understanding topics and activities for young children:


• tend to be so sensitive that teachers rarely include them in the curriculum.


• avoid discussion about gender roles.


• might discuss the illness of a family member.


• none of the above

• The experiences that strengthen connections and relationships:


• allow children to appreciate the differences and similarities among other children, adults, and families.


• focus on movement activities because young children in early care learning programs are not quite ready for discussions about relationships.


• offer conversations about families but not diversity.


• require approval of the board of education because of the sensitive topics.