Life+and+Career+Skills

__Life and Career Skills__ __Skills Set__ What does it look like with young children?
 * Analyze
 * Adapt
 * Flexiability
 * Prioritize
 * Demonstrate
 * Develop
 * Elaborate
 * Monitor
 * Inspire
 * 1) Adapt to changes in daily schedule, make transitions with ease
 * 2) Utilizing classroom materials, flexibility in use and sharing
 * 3) Build confidence in abilities to interact with others, engage in environment and have the opportunities (time, environment, adult facilitation) to do so.
 * 4) Understanding and acceptance that others use a different language, approach experiences differently
 * 5) Ownership of work, behavior, respect for others. Personal goals and motivation (desire, interests)
 * 6) Self-Direction

Flexiablity and Adaptability Skills
 * Use schedules to support flexability and understanding change in routines
 * Supporting children in trying new things (e.g., student asked for foam in the classroom, not available, so child choose paper instead)
 * Children need predictability and a familiar/comfortable enviorment to thrive and take risks in leanring; within this context children need enough background and exposure in order to understand how to be flexiable
 * Self regulation skills set
 * Being able to see the possiblities of something-help children to understand adaptability (having children experiement to see the different ways they can interact with the materials)
 * Having children brainstrom options and then vote or teach them other processes to come to a final conclusion in a collaborative situaiton
 * Sharing

Initative and Self Direction Skills
 * Teaching the creative process (Brainstroming, planning, producing)
 * Group and individual brainstroming time is equally important to support all children in participating.
 * play skills
 * Project Based Approach (self directed learner)
 * In order to foster a lifelong process of learning: Adults show the learning process, that adults are excited about learning how things work, adults don't know everything
 * Mistakes or okay and learning opp.
 * Giving children opp. to evaluate what they have done in their play/project/learning process and what they might do different
 * Time managment-scheduels

Social and Cross Cultural Skill
 * Talk with children about how each of them do things different (can show they how they all went about an activity different)
 * Helping children to think about the different ways they can do things
 * Shared time with other families-share their traditions, culture, experiences

Productivity and Accountability
 * Creative process (brainstroming, planning, producing)
 * Schedules and time managment
 * Collaborative process (designing a garden)

Leadership and Responsability Skills
 * Multi age oppournirites-fostering leadership skills with older children

How do we currently? CLASS (teacher, environment, opportunities present) Explain why a change is going to happen or prepare ahead of time (fire drill, sub present,) Pictures (daily schedule, transitions) Positive reinforcement, celebrations, meaningful & purposeful
 * 1) Scaffolding support (zipping coat, drawing, etc. )

Multiple means of Representation present in environment. Give children language to problem solve sharing, use of materials. Adults adapt materials/environment/facilitation to individual child needs
 * 1) Materials are available and open-ended.

Setting up environment for experiences, successes & failures
 * 1) Positive Reinforcement (celebrating successes)

Environment (Books, language opportunities, pictures) Child awareness of differences in others and their boundaries (words, actions)
 * 1) Staff model acceptance with differences. Build up children with confidence and leadership with acceptance for others and pair with others (Anthony & Edy)

Awareness of consequences of actions (positive or negative) Awareness of feelings (How are you making someone else feel? How do you feel?)
 * 1) Share work with others (art, projects)


 * 1) Environment, experiences and support allow children to be self- directed.

Where do we need to grow?
 * Cross cultural skills and increase language opportunities
 * Consistency across adults in building independency in skills