Early Childhood Education: Emotional Intelligence Plan Assignment

This report focuses on emotional intelligence in the context of early childhood education, specifically for professionals working with infants, toddlers, and young children. It begins by identifying three key insights related to emotional intelligence, emphasizing the importance of relationships in learning. The report then outlines a plan for the author's personal development concerning these insights, including a rationale for the chosen aspect and a brief plan of action to be discussed with mentors. The plan is informed by key research on emotional competence, emotional regulation, well-being, and belonging in early childhood curricula. The report concludes with a comprehensive reference list of the sources used.

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The capacity of people to understand their own emotions and those of others is known
as emotional intelligence, to distinguish between different feelings, to properly mark them, to
use emotional knowledge to direct their thinking and behavior. Here we are going to talk
about different emotional expertise attributes that the early childhood care professional need
and some other attributes about the matter of emotional intelligence.
According to me the three key aspects of emotional intelligence for early childhood
care professional is,
Knowing one's emotions: Knowing emotions is self-awareness recognizing a feeling
as it happens (Emotional intelligence and ECE, 2020). If an early childhood care professional
does not know how to understand emotional intelligence, it simply cannot work in the
respective field.
Recognizing emotions in others: Another important aspect of early childhood
professionals is recognizing the emotion properly, if they cannot recognize what kind of
emotion is showing they cannot know how to react to that, moreover cherish that. Like,
empathy - the fundamental emotion that helps with understanding other’s emotions.
The third important aspect should be Managing emotions: handling feelings
appropriately is one of the must-have aspects for early childhood care professionals. To mold
a child’s emotion in a positive or even in a constructive way you must understand how to
manage them.
Upon placement, I will identify recognizing the emotional aspect of my development
concerning these insights. The reason behind selecting this aspect is, upon selection I need to
know the kids I would have as my early childhood care subjects. To know their emotions
perfectly I need to have some kind of activity planned and see how the kids react
("Supporting Social and Emotional Competence in Early Learning Inquiry and Self-
assessment", 2019). Otherwise, I can also have them do some activity like drawing or writing

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about one of their recent remembering experience. Furthermore, I will ask each of the kids to
tell what they think about the work of others.
My plan would be at first I would provide them with activity. Like drawing or writing
about something they like. Then in the next part, I will have other kids comment on the work
of different kinds. Furthermore, for the first few days, I will have a session of providing
ratings and comments to other kid’s works. That way the process can be completed otherwise
if I were to hurry then I could miss some vital detail of a kid regarding their emotional
attributes. After completing the process properly, I would take my time to study the results of
the plan and take notes of which kid reacts to what way emotionally. Through this I can have
a lot of information on how their emotions do work or how do they react to different kinds of
emotions of others. Furthermore, I would also know the exceptions from the usual emotional
ones.
This plan will provide me the perfect chance to recognize the emotions of kids I am
going to work with (Tominey et al., 2017). Through recognizing their behavior properly I can
further plan my workshops and readings and other activities specifically signifying the
emotional attributes of the kids I am going to work with.

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References
Emotional intelligence and ECE. (2020). YouTube. Youtube.com. Retrieved 10 March 2020,
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=4dPvAo3OMNI.
Supporting Social and Emotional Competence in Early Learning Inquiry and Self-
assessment. Tewhariki.tki.org.nz. (2019). Retrieved 10 March 2020, from
https://tewhariki.tki.org.nz/assets/Uploads/files/He-Mapuna-te-Tamaiti-self-
assessment-tool.pdf.
Tominey, S. L., O’Bryon, E. C., Rivers, S. E., & Shapses, S. (2017). Teaching emotional
intelligence in early childhood. YC Young Children, 72(1), 6-14.