If you are employed in a state that uses a registry to track professional development hours, you will be able to provide your registry ID (Stars, MOPID, Registry or other ECE ID#) after you have completed the quiz for the course. If you pass the quiz we will report your course completion to the state registry using the registry ID that you provide.

Learn practical strategies for helping children understand, express, and manage their emotions in healthy ways. Designed for early childhood educators, this course explores why children experience big emotions and provides effective techniques for building emotional awareness, emotional vocabulary, and self-regulation skills. Through engaging instruction and practical ideas, participants will gain the confidence to support children as they identify, process, and respond to their feelings in positive, developmentally appropriate ways. Course length – 2.0 hours.

This course helps answer the following questions:

• Why do children have such powerful emotions?

• Why are there times when they don’t seem to know why they are sad?

• Why are there times when they don’t know why they are angry?

• How can I help a withdrawn child open up?

• How can I help a child put their feelings into words?

• What are some ways I can help a child process their emotions in a healthy way?

• How can I help the children feel more in control of their own emotions?

Participants who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Select at least three developmentally appropriate strategies for responding to children’s emotions based on their individual needs and temperaments, with 80% accuracy on the course assessment.

• Develop at least three activities that help children identify, express, and label their emotions.

• Design a calming area that includes at least three appropriate materials and two strategies for supporting children during emotional distress.