Experts in Action- Emotional Regulation in Preschool: Teaching Children to Cope with Conflict

This DVD (48 minutes) shows examples of teachers implementing the Dina Dinosaur Classroom Social Skills and Problem-Solving Curriculum. It shows how teachers can use circle time, small group activities, and unstructured interactions to help young children learn emotional literacy skills, self-regulatory skills, problem-solving strategies, and friendship skills. It also shows teachers responding to students’ disregulated behavior with appropriate discipline so that negative interactions are not reinforced. Includes leader’s manual.Key concepts of the program include: Helping children recognize and label their feelings with a particular emphasis on self-regulatory feelings such as calmness, happiness, and patience. Children are also taught to understand that feelings can change and that other people’s feelings may be different from their own. Building children’s repertoire of solutions to frustrating situations (being able to wait, keep trying, offer to trade or share, being able to use