7.emotional development

PSYCHOLOGY

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS EMOTION?

• The mental thinking or the feeling of a person at a particular instance knowingly or unknowingly is called an emotion.

WHO INFLUENCES EMOTIONS?

• Family, • health, • school, • teacher, • parental outlook, • social status, • mental ability, • will power and • economic status

METHODS BY TEACHER FOR EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Story telling,

• Dramatisation,

• Practical teaching,

• Art education.

STORY TELLING• The teacher should…… • encourage the students

to tell stories.• lay the foundation of

good manners.• mould the behaviour of

the children.• make use of storybooks,

charts etc to create interest in the children.

PRACTICAL TEACHING• The teacher should not only teach

morals, good manners etc to the children but also put them in practice herself.

• The teacher is a role model for the children.

• If the teacher doesn’t practice what she teaches, the children will not learn it.

DRAMATISATION• The teacher ………• should act and react according to the situations. • should encourage the child to act like other persons.• Mahatma Gandhi learnt the moral to serve parents

from the drama of “Shravan Kumara”.

ART EDUCATION• It is one of the duties of the teacher to develop

art among the children.• She should be well trained and good at art.• The teacher should recognize the interests of the

children and encourage them accordingly.• Drawing, painting, stamp-collection, making

albums, claywork, music etc are some of the activities of art.

ACTIVITES OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS

• In PP stage children should be taught various daily activities through rhymes and songs.

• The children should sleep for atleast 8-10hours.

• The teacher should teach them good habits of sleeping and waking up using rhymes like – early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

• Parents and teachers should teach the child discipline and time sense.

ACTIVITES OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS

• The school management should maintain a correct timetable so that the child’s health is not affected.

• Parents and teachers should advise children to observe and learn from nature.

• They should encourage children to participate in gardening, cooking etc.

• Teachers should teach the children about seasons, clothing during various seasons and similar topics of general knowledge

SCHOOL READINESS ACTIVITES• Reading can be

increased in children by adopting attractive big, colourful picture books.

• Binded notebooks, big pencils, colour pencils, scale, crayons should be given to the children.

• Children should be encouraged to play.

• Teacher can adopt games to educate children.

SCHOOL READINESS ACTIVITES• She should teach different

general knowledge concepts through rhymes, songs and stories.

• Skill in reading should be developed. The children should be asked to read loudly expressing the various sounds.

• Children should be encouraged to dance and enact dramas & mono actions in the school annual day.

• Prizes should be given to encourage all the children to participate actively

WHY ART EDUCATION?• Art education is an essential

medium for the self-expression & harmonious development of the child.

• It is considered a means of peace.

• It cultivates a sense of beauty.

• It also provides an outlet for the repressed emotions of a child.

AIMS OF ART EDUCATION• to create interest about art

in children,• to create respect for work,• to enable children to work

in free atmosphere,• to bring out their self-

expression,• to help children in making

toys and assist teacher in preparing teaching aids etc.

STEPS TAKEN BY TEACHER TOWARDS ART EDUCATION

• Freedom of thought: freedom to express themselves.

• Freedom of expression: providing the facilities for the activities they like. Ex. Dance, music, painting

• Constant changes in school decoration: to help in original thinking, school decoration should changed according to time and situation.

• Creativity: encouraged & given opportunities to collect things they like. Ex. stamps, coins, flowers, leaves etc.

ACTIVITIES RELATED TO ART• Collecting stamps, coins,

flowers, leaves, stones• Making albums of feathers• Observing nature & painting

them.• Collecting waste material like

paper, clothes, wood etc &making toys out of them.

• Drawing and painting.• Preparing models.• Listening to music and

composing poems and songs.• Clay work: this helps to bring

out the creativity in children. It has its own educational value.

IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC

• helps to bring about harmony in the society

• helps to solve the problems of bed-wetting and thumb sucking in children

• helps for good health• the teacher should create

interest in the children through rhymes and songs

• Song competitions &prizes to good singers help in creating interest