The Research On The Implementation Of Social And Emotional Curriculum In American Kindergartens

With the diversified development of the world’s economy,politics,culture,technology,etc,facing a more challenging and uncertain future,education should strive to ensure that all learners have sustainable access to school,social life and workplace Development enables them to live a healthy,fulfilling and happy life.Social and Emotional Learning(SEL)is an important educational theory,research and teaching practice activity that improves the quality of basic education development worldwide in the past 20 years,and promotes students to adapt to the 21 st century learning,lifestyle and future work.The World Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has incorporated social and emotional skills into one of the three essential skills for the future of mankind.UNESCO has also incorporated social-emotional skills into the fourth Sustainable Development Goal for education(The fourth Sustainable Development Goal for education),and encourage countries around the world to carry out social and emotional learning.Since the 1970s,a large number of studies have proved that the social and emotional abilities of preschool children are the cornerstone of the building of their future personality,which can predict their future academic level,social adaptation,and mental health status.The U.S.Department of Health and Human Services put forward in a report published in 2010: In early childhood,social and emotional well-being heralds good social,behavioral and academic adjustments into childhood and adolescence.It helps children adapt to new environments,promotes supportive relationships with peers and adults,and supports their ability to participate in learning activities.The United States is the first country to study social emotion courses,and the implementation of social emotion courses is gradually becoming an important part of the United States from kindergarten to high school education.The American Kindergarten Social Emotional Curriculum is a scientific and systematic curriculum designed based on the five core skill elements proposed by the American Association for Social Emotional Learning(CASEL).The curriculum is implemented by teachers and curriculum designers,teachers and children,teachers and parents,children and parents The course aims to improve children’s social and emotional abilities.The content of the course comes from real situations.The skills are consolidated through game-like interactive practice.Evaluation is the construction of the development of children’s social and emotional abilities.Curriculum implementation follows a bottom-up approach.The above model focuses on stimulating children’s independent development motivation and creating a preventive education environment for children,parents,and teachers to learn and develop together.Based on the analysis of relevant research on social emotion courses at home and abroad,this research selects the implementation of social emotion courses in American kindergartens as the research object.Starting from this special curriculum system,according to the background and objectives,subjects and objects,content,and content of the curriculum implementation.The five aspects of strategies and methods,evaluation and guarantee,comprehensively analyze the characteristics of the social emotional curriculum implemented by the United States for preschool children,and focus on selecting the representative social emotional learning projects in the United States: "Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies(PATHS)" courses," The "Strong Kids" course and the "Mind UP" course are the main case studies,and finally a reflection on the strategies of improving children’s social and emotional abilities at the kindergarten stage in China.The first part of the main content is the background and goals of the implementation of the American Kindergarten Social Emotional Curriculum.The focus is to explore and sort out the background that promotes the implementation of curriculum projects in kindergartens: mainly from the policy background,children’s behavior problems,and organizational promotion.Compared with the background of only exploring the implementation of social emotional curriculum projects,it emphasizes the background of American children.The part of emotional needs.In terms of implementation goals,there are mainly three goals: preventive intervention based on the behavioral level,health education based on the psychological level,and quality preparation based on all-round development.From behavioral intervention to comprehensive development of quality education,the three-tier goal gradually expands the scope of target objects,penetrates each other,and cannot be established separately,and jointly constructed the educational intervention goals implemented by the social emotional curriculum in American kindergartens.The second part is the subject and object of the implementation of social emotional curriculum in American kindergartens.The main body of implementation discusses the three aspects of teachers,parents and school administrators.Among them,because the school is the main position for curriculum implementation,teachers are the main implementers,but parents and school administrators(especially the principal)are participating In the implementation of the social emotional curriculum project,the role of building a campus supportive environment and family environment together with teachers cannot be ignored.In terms of implementation targets,the educational intervention of the social emotional curriculum in American kindergartens is for all children,but it also provides services for children with special needs to promote true emotional integration education.The third part is one of the key points of the research-the main content of the course implementation.This part is specifically discussed around the five social and emotional competence standards formulated by the American CASEL organization,including emotional cognition,self-regulation and control,social cognition,Interpersonal communication and responsible decision-making are indispensable for each of the five abilities to support each other and penetrate each other.The fourth part is the strategies and methods of curriculum implementation,which is also one of the focuses of research.The strategy discusses the three-level teaching strategy of the "pyramid" widely used in kindergartens in the United States.The method part is discussed in a number of specific ways,such as explicit courses,hidden courses,and homeland cooperation.Both aspects of the discussion highlight an important point: whether children are in the classroom or in community organizations,their relationships with teachers,school leaders and administrators,families and community members will shape their learning environment and their social,social,Emotional and academic growth.The fifth part is the evaluation and guarantee of curriculum implementation.Evaluation methods are diversified,involving children’s self-evaluation,teacher and parent evaluation,peer evaluation,and project organization evaluation-using the "Pyramid Teaching Measurement Tool(TOPT)" to evaluate the implementation quality and implementation of teachers.In terms of security,in addition to conventional measures such as policies,funding,and teacher training,the emphasis is on providing family service guarantees and project consulting consultants for curriculum projects,that is,the project provides consultants or coaches to promptly guide teachers in the implementation process.Finally,on the basis of a brief summary of the effectiveness of the implementation of the social emotional curriculum in American kindergartens,it summarizes and condenses its characteristics in the implementation process.From the perspective of implementation targets,highlight the comprehensiveness of children’s group prevention;from the content of curriculum implementation,follow the law of development by yourself and others;from the field of curriculum implementation,emphasize the coherence of situational education;highlight the overall goals and strategies of curriculum implementation Step-by-step evidence-based education intervention;focus on seeking the assistance of multi-party support resource platforms from the evaluation and guarantee of courses.Therefore,the following enlightenments for the construction of social emotion curriculum in kindergartens in our country are drawn: the methods of social emotion curriculum implementation should be diversified;attention should be paid to the integrated implementation of curriculum content vertically and horizontally;a cooperative education mechanism between kindergartens,families and communities should be established;Cultivate social emotional curriculum teachers andadministrative management team strength;establish a multi-angle evaluation system for measuring children’s social emotional abilities.