Coding the Social Emotional Future
Project Summary All children within the Head start/ Preschool classroom show low social emotional skills. The children are interacting with each other freely, with a blend of intentional teaching by the teacher, to improve each child’s social emotional skills. The students find this method of teaching lack luster, and boring. The students need a more engaging method of learning which will improve their social emotional skills. Per our benchmark assessment, and the Kentucky state standardized screener for kindergarten, the students in head start need social emotional intervention. Scores have shown that the present curriculum is having a less than moderate impact our students in social emotional activities. This year’s Strategy will allow children to utilize PBS Playtime Android tablets and coding apps founded in social emotional to make learning social emotional skills more fun and engaging. Teachers will be trained by KET in early childhood coding. . The classroom will reach out to the community by educating parents in the community about coding social emotional and allow parents to use tablets with children at home to enhance the student’s confidence in using coding inside and outside the classroom. The classroom needs PBS Playtime Android Tablets and social emotional apps for children to share, assistance will be given by KET to train teachers in early childhood coding using android tablets. There is only one research question that will guide our study of coding with social emotional intent. Can a child of three years of age and beyond, use the concept of coding to build a more engaging relationship with social emotional skills? Per our benchmark assessment data and Kentucky state standardized kindergarten assessment, great progress to substantially improved or show growth in this area, improvement for the class average score level compared to prior data before implementations of the social emotional coding concept. As recently stated we will generate a before social emotional coding vs after social emotional coding comparison of assessment data to measure the vast improvements per average of the classroom. There will be two assessments observed. The benchmark assessment data as well as the Kentucky state standard kindergarten screener data. To be sure that any positive outcomes are derived directly from this concept alone, we will compare engagement before concept vs after the concept has been in place, and the children have acclimated to the innovation. The data compiled for this confirmation will be shared. Also, one device will be available for parents to check for their children. They will gain enhanced awareness of SEL skills through using the app and content on the PSB Playtime device.