LaGuardia Community College ELN121: School Discipline and SEL Report

This report, prepared for LaGuardia Community College's ELN121 course, investigates the critical relationship between school discipline and social-emotional learning (SEL) in early childhood education. The report delves into the importance of SEL in fostering positive behaviors, responsibility, and self-efficiency among young children, while also examining key issues that impact the effectiveness of these practices. A comprehensive literature review synthesizes research on the topic, highlighting various studies and their findings regarding the influence of social norms, interactions, and intervention models like the Pyramid Model. The discussion section analyzes the reviewed literature, identifying common themes and debates, such as the impact of behavior changes, lack of support, and the need for transparency. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and implications of the research, emphasizing the need for further investigation into the influence of discipline and learning on early childhood education, and the importance of addressing the various challenges in promoting SEL. References are provided for all cited sources.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Importance...................................................................................................................................2
Purpose........................................................................................................................................3
Research question........................................................................................................................3
Literature review..............................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Early childhood education is the part of education theory which is related to educating the
children in both formally as well as informally manner. The education is provided to the children
up to the age of eight. In this report, “School Discipline and Social-Emotional Learning” in the
early childhood education context topic is selected. The school discipline is considered all the
rules and regulation as well as various strategies for managing the behavior and actions which is
used for encouraging the self-discipline among the students (Okonofua, Walton, & Eberhardt,
2016). However, Social-Emotional learning refers to the procedure in which children obtain and
applied the knowledge, behavior in effective manner which become important in managing the
emotions (Greenberg, Domitrovich, Weissberg, & Durlak, 2017). In this, the thesis argues that
school discipline and social-emotional learning is important because it helps in increasing sense
of responsibility, self-efficiency etc. However, there are various issues that have significant
impact on school discipline and social-emotional learning in early childhood education such as
lack of transparency, lack of support etc, which is important to analyze.
Importance
School Discipline and Social-Emotional Learning is considered important because it
leads more positive behavior towards others and improves the sense of responsibility, purpose,
self-efficiency etc. This learning helps in developing the relationships with the peer and
decreases the problems (Mahoney, Durlak, & Weissberg, 2018).
Purpose
 To understand the meaning of school discipline and Social and Emotional knowledge.

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 The major importance in the subject matter of “School Discipline and Social-Emotional
Learning” in early childhood education.
 The issues which influence the school discipline as well as social as well as emotional
education in the early childhood education centers.
Research question
 What is the meaning of “School Discipline and Social- Emotional Learning”?
 What are the major roles of “School Discipline and Social- Emotional Learning”?
 What are the issues which influence School Discipline and Social as well as Emotional
knowledge within early childhood learning centers?
Literature review
Darling-Churchill and Lippman conducted the study to know the concept of school
discipline and issues which impacted the association between the growth of social and emotional
aspects among the children in the early childhood education (Darling-Churchill & Lippman,
2016). The data collection was done by using the secondary approach that is by reviewing
various several articles which are related to the issues of early childhood education. From the
analysis the researchers find that there is an association between the social education and
emotional education in the early childhood education centers. Researchers also find that there are
various issues involved in the “Social-Emotional Learning” which includes issues regarding the
quality as well as ease of usage for extant actions. The one of the major issue also include about
the lack of transparency regarding the model of sub domains of the social as well as emotional
growth. The other issues are social competence, problems regarding the behaviors, emotional

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competence. Researchers also provide recommendation to adopt the tools which does
classification regarding the development of social and emotional sub domains.
According to Domitrovich, Durlak, Staley and Weissberg School discipline and the
social-emotional competence is considered the significant aspect for targeting the interventions
of universal perspective which perform in the early childhood education center (Domitrovich,
Durlak, Staley, & Weissberg, 2017). The aim of the research is to investigate the association
social, emotional culture with healthy development of the children. The other aim of the study is
to know the issues regarding the discipline and learning in the early childhood education center.
The data was conducted from the reports of the early childhood centers, articles to provide in
depth understanding about the subject matter. From the study, the researchers find that Social-
emotional learning is considered the important approach which leads in increasing the social-
emotional competence. Researchers also finds that there are various issues in managing the
discipline and social and emotional learning in schools which includes change in the procedure
of behavior, inefficient and inadequate rules and regulations. The study also provides
recommendations that are to adopt universal intervention, which helps in enhancing the health of
the risky students.
According to McCormick, Cappella, O’Connor and McClowry social-emotional
competence are considered significant for the success of academic it is because of their higher
influence because of political and consumer support (McCormick, Cappella, O’Connor, &
McClowry, 2015). Researchers conducted the study in examining the three proportions that is
leadership, responsibility and accountability as well as safety, respect which influence the
outcomes of social, emotional and behavioral learning. The study was conducted in the 22
schools which is situated in urban area, the sample size of the students are 435, that is all the

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students with diverse racial and ethnic were enroll in collecting the data, The study was
conducted in the elementary school of New York, from this half of the population are from the
males. The descriptive statistics were used by the researchers by examining the variables in the
description of the characteristics at both individual as well as school level. From the analysis the
researcher finds that social norms, interactions affect the “social-emotional learning and the
social discipline” in urban early childhood schools.
Hemmeter, Snyder, Fox and Algina objective of the research is to find the influence of
pyramid model for developing the social as well as emotional skills among the children
(Hemmeter, Snyder, Fox, & Algina, 2016). Researchers believe that pyramid model considered
the best practices skills of the children as well as their altering behaviors and actions. The study
collected the data from the 40 teachers which are from the preschool as well as from 494
children; the researchers also adopted the randomized controlling sampling design in the two
states that is Tennessee and Florida. From the analysis, the researchers finds that social-
emotional learning is considered very significant because it helps in increasing the knowledge,
behaviors of the children as well as helps in managing their actions in efficient manner.
Researchers finds that it is difficult for the students and teachers because of behavior disorder,
some of the challenging behavior, ineffective leadership and study also demonstrate that pyramid
model considered the efficient approach in increasing the emotional as well as social competence
among the children and instructor.
According to Bierman and Motamedi children skills develop quickly those who are
between the age group of 3-6 (Bierman & Motamedi, 2015). Researchers also believe that school
discipline is considered the rules and regulation which leads in management of the children
actions. The researchers conducted the study to investigate the school discipline and skills in the

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preschools; the study was also conducted to find the problems in the discipline as well as issues
in social and emotional education in the Australian early childhood schools. The researchers used
the programs of social as well as emotional learning and various theories such as social learning,
model of social information processing. From the analysis the researchers finds that these model
helps in increasing the support in providing the social and emotional skills to the children,
Researchers also finds that inadequate leadership leads ineffective discipline in the early
childhood education center. The major issue involved in the social and emotional learning
includes support from the teachers, family members.
According to Curby, Brown, Bassett and Denham estimating, understanding and
managing the actions of children is become significant for the development of the children.
Researchers believe that earlier studies were conduct to know the connection among the
competencies with progression of children (Curby, Brown, Bassett, & Denham, 2015).
Therefore, the present study is conducted to understand the issues which influence the social-
emotional learning as well as discipline in the school among 91 preschool. The researchers also
used the observation method and gathered the data by observing the social and emotional
competences of child along with the rules followed in school for discipline. From the analysis,
the researchers find that behavior of the children influence the learning and development which
includes annoyed/destructive behavior, corporative and sensitive behavior and anxious as well as
withdrawn behavior. There are limitations of the study which includes that the relationship
between social- emotional learning with the developments done by adopting the longitudinal
design and this design is not used by the researchers while conducting this study.

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Discussion
From the above analysis it is finds that the study is conducted to understand the meaning
and importance of “School Discipline and Social- Emotional Learning”, the study is also
conducted to identify the issues which influence School Discipline as well as Social and
Emotional education in early childhood centers. Therefore, from reviewing various articles it
understands that not many studies are conducted to know the application of school discipline and
social as well as emotional learning. However, above articles helps in finding the objective of the
study.
The findings demonstrate that school discipline and social-emotional learning is
considered significant term because it helps developing the process, method which manage and
control the actions and behavior of children (Elango, García, Heckman, & Hojman, 2015).
Therefore it is considered important because it helps in increasing the various skills, increases
the self efficiency as well as maintains the good relationship with the family and peer group
(Greenberg, Domitrovich, Weissberg, & Durlak, 2017). The present study also describes that
there are various issues which influence the discipline and learning in the early childhood
education center which includes changes in the behavior of children, competence, lack of support
system, inefficient rules and transparency.
The present study also has limitation which include that the present study only focused on
the influence of “School Discipline as well as Social- Emotional Learning” in the early
childhood education, it does not focuses on the amount of extent or the degree it impacted the
early childhood education. Therefore in future researchers can conduct the study to now the
amount of influence discipline and learning have on the education.

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Conclusion
From the above it is concludes that the study was conducted to know the “School
Discipline as well as Social- Emotional Learning” in the early childhood education. The data was
collected by reviewing various articles to understand the issues which have impact on the
discipline and learning. From the above it also conclude that it is an important aspect to develop
the children in efficient manner but faced from various issues that is diverse and altering
behavior, lack of transparency and support.
References

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