How can our early childhood classrooms nurture global thinkers? How do recognizing the brain’s role in regulating emotions and understanding the way emotions affect other people help us to shape empathetic preschoolers in the classroom? This course, led by an early childhood education researcher and a preschool teacher, will offer opportunities to analyze how thinking routines and global thinking routines engage preschoolers in the nurturing of global habits of mind. Special emphasis will be given to how preschoolers become aware of their own emotions, as well as those of others in the classroom. When children are able to recognize their own feelings and manage those feelings, they are more likely to identify emotions in others and help them come back to their regular state of mind.
Participants will experience global thinking routines that have been designed to nurture global competence in young children.
Intended Audience: This course is intended for: early childhood teachers, elementary teachers, administrators, and faculty.
