Early Childhood - Connecticut State Department of Education

Social-Emotional Competence and Family Relations Chapter 10
HELPFUL TERMS
Collaboration When adults or children work together as a team to solve problems and accomplish
tasks that cannot be achieved alone.
Community- Encouraging children to understand the needs of the group as well
Building as their own; fostering attitudes of caring and responsibility.
Conflict Describes situations where one person or group has needs, desires or goals that
interfere with the accomplishment of those of another person or group.
Discipline Providing instruction and guidance for behavior, interactions and relationships with
others.
Dispositions Attitudes and ways of responding, such as persisting, taking risks and attending.
Intervention Guidance given by an adult when a child is behaving inappropriately.
Self-Concept/ The total collection of thoughts and feelings that an individual has
Self-Esteem at any point in time about who he or she is.
Self-Control The ability to regulate one’s behavior and relationships with others during conflicts
or problem solving.
Social Competence The ability to initiate and maintain satisfying, reciprocal relationships with peers.
Social An understanding of the symbols and behaviors common to the
Knowledge society in which you live, such as the names of numerals and saying please or thank
you.
Temperament A person’s way of responding to the environment, such as activity level, irritability,
fearfulness and sociability.
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