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    Teaching social skills is as important as teaching academic content to young children, as their performance in school depends on their ability to get along with others and follow rules. Students with poor social skills are more likely to be rejected and punished for not adhering to policies. For healthy development, children must learn and apply standards of social conduct in different environments and situations. Social competence contributes to peer acceptance, teacher approval, and future achievement. Schools strongly influence children's social-emotional development alongside families.

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    Teaching social skills is as important as teaching academic content to young children, as their performance in school depends on their ability to get along with others and follow rules. Students with poor social skills are more likely to be rejected and punished for not adhering to policies. For healthy development, children must learn and apply standards of social conduct in different environments and situations. Social competence contributes to peer acceptance, teacher approval, and future achievement. Schools strongly influence children's social-emotional development alongside families.

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    Teaching Social and Emotional Competence in Early Childhood

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    Teaching social skills is as important as teaching academic content to young children, as their performance in school depends on their ability to get along with others and follow rules. Students with poor social skills are more likely to be rejected and punished for not adhering to policies. For healthy development, children must learn and apply standards of social conduct in different environments and situations. Social competence contributes to peer acceptance, teacher approval, and future achievement. Schools strongly influence children's social-emotional development alongside families.

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    Teaching Social and Emotional Competence in Early Childhood

    Teaching effective academic content is essential; however, teaching social skills is


    equally important because children’s performance in school is related to their
    ability to get along with peers and adults and to follow the rules of their
    environment. Students who display poor social skills are more likely to get
    rejected by others and are frequently punished because of their inability to abide
    by school policies and procedures (Lovitt, 2007). Healthy social development of
    children depends upon their learning and internalizing standards of social conduct
    as well as transferring and applying these standards in directing their behavior in
    various environments and situations. Social competence is linked to peer
    acceptance, teacher acceptance, and post school success. Besides the family,
    schools exert a dominant influence in the lives of children as they develop socially
    and emotionally (Cartledge & Kiarie, 2001).

    By Rita Coombs Richardson, Steve P. Myran and Steve Tonelson

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