Seven Essential life skills, Study notes of Childhood Development

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Welcome

SEVEN ESSENTIAL LIFE

SKILLS EVERY CHILD

NEEDS

Mind in the Making Ellen Galinsky

Let’s get an overview

of Executive Function

Focus and Self Control

❑ Paying attention ❑ Remembering the rules ❑ Thinking flexibly ❑ Staying on task ❑ Exercising self control

How can I support focus and self

control?

Perspective Taking

❑ Listening ❑ Seeing things as others would see them ❑ Determining what others think and feel

How can you support perspective

taking?

Communicating

The skill of determining what one wants to communicate and realizing how our communication will be understood by others

How do we promote

communicating?

Making Connections

❑ Making connections is fundamental to learning! ❑ Determining what is the same, different, and sorting into categories ❑ Symbolic representation

How can you support making

connections?

Critical Thinking

The on-going search for valid and reliable knowledge to guide beliefs, decisions and actions.

How can you support critical

thinking?

Taking on Challenges

❑ Deal with experiences and events positively ❑ Learn how to deal proactively with challenges ❑ Trying something hard ❑ Learning from mistakes ❑ Not giving up/persistence

Take a moment to consider...

A childhood that had no stress in it

would not prepare you for

adulthood.

• Megan Gunner

How do you support children in

taking on challenges?

Self-Directed Engaged Learning

❑ It is through self-directed learning that we take the responsibility and initiative for seeking knowledge and skills ❑ Through engaged learning that we keep a passion for learning in our own lives.

How do you support children in

becoming Self-Directed,

Engaged Learning

Resources

■ Book – Mind in the Making ■ Website – MindintheMaking.org

• Skill Building Book tips
• Skill Building Moments App – vroom.org follow on Facebook

Let’s pull it all together – and let it fly