The Importance of Social Relationships in Child Development

Do you know how your Social Emotional Development affects your life? The development of the social and emotional health is essential to have good relationships, an appropriate behavior to success in school. In this work you will recognize what is the impact of Social Emotional Development in students’ life. Your mood and relationships have a lot of advantages and disadvantages in your academic development. Social Emotional affects the way you are going to acquire new knowledge at school and the way you are going to increase your relationships.

Schools need to provide opportunities for students to explore their interests and also teach essential skills in all academic content areas. Providing a safe, nurturing learning environment for all learners that encourages creativity and innovation is also fundamental. It is crucial that schoo... ... middle of paper ... ...ressed. The main goal of education is for students to acquire the necessary foundational skills and develop into critical thinkers and analytical problem solvers that make active contributions to our society. Education provides the foundation that enables students to be successful lifelong learners that thrive in society.

The essential goal of education is to give children the knowledge and means to entire the workforce and achieve success (Carmichael, 2009). It is important as teachers that we welcome the diverse needs of all students. While it is fundamental that teachers are well-informed on the content they are teaching and are responsible to guide student learning, there is much more to emerging student learning. To develop students’ education, schools should provide a structure of classroom communities conductive to learning. School environments must be respectful, caring, stable, and stimulating atmospheres in order to enhance the learning environment.

For instance, the social powers model plays a significant role in building effective relationships that can promote the success of students and teachers. However, I agree that there needs to be a balance of each social power in order to have a positive effect on students; this is especially true for coercion and manipulation in the classroom. “These two social powers should be combined with a classroom management style that helps students see teachers as problem solvers (expertness) and as having personal characteristics that make the student want to perform well (likability)” (Alderman & Green, 2011, p. 43). As the text suggests, positive interaction among teachers and students is one of the most crucial elements of classroom management because it helps students become more engaged in the learning process, reduces misbehavior and promotes compliance. Thus, it’s critical to utilize the social powers model to build teacher-student communication and enhance relationships with students, for instance, making them feel secure and needed, learning their strengths and weaknesses, and figuring out what motivates them to want to

Parents can become the valuable asset the child desires by being involved in the child's activities and encouraging the child's attainment of success in school. Most important, children must acquire the mindset to thrive in school; without this and a positive environment, their expectations are not within the self-fulfilling prophecy, which is setting goals for their contentment. "Your mindset is the view you have of your qualities and characteristics where they come from and whether they can change" (Vermeer). The mindset is what promotes the children's actions and the environment influences it. The two types of mindset are fixed and growth mindset.

Social and emotional learning is defined by Zins, Bloodworth, Weissberg and Walberg (2004, p. 4) as ‘the process through which we learn to recognize and manage emotions, care about others, make good decisions, behave ethically and responsibly, develop positive relationships, and avoid negative behaviours.’ Schools need to reflect and help in the social and emotional development of children to meet the expectations within their community. By integrating thinking, feeling and behaving it is possible to achieve these important life tasks. School is an environment where children are intended to learn many interpersonal skills. Through emotional learning they develop self awareness, more specifically identifying and recognising emotions, strengths, needs and values, self-efficacy and spirituality. Students develop self management by controlling and managing stress, self motivating and developing organisational skills.

With expanding the social and cognitive capacities of the students the teachers are able to incorporate into their lessons about learning about life lessons and what the children will need to learn to survive in today?s world. With parental involvement the parents are able to continue the education at opportunities that teachers may never have with the students. Alyssa Gonzalez-DeHass (2005) went to state that there is a huge benefit from the relationship between parental involvement and the many motivational constructs, which include school engagement, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, perceived competence, perceived control, self-regulation, mastery goal orientation, and the motivation to read. When parents set a good role model for their children they are more likely to achieve the motivational constructs that are listed above. As educators in the 21st century, it is very easy to look at the state of schools in the present and to compare then with schools from twenty years ago.

As teachers we must be willing to reach out and learn from our students rather than have them learn from us. Communication is key in education and learning about your student’s background and culture will provide a huge benefit into figuring out how to help culturally diverse students learn effectively. I believe that the more open we are as educators to diverse students, the more they will open up to u... ... middle of paper ... ...r to help parents feel welcome within the school and community. Reaching out to parents and helping them get in contact with people that would help them and their child deal with the disability is an important role that a teacher must take part in. By inviting the parents to help come up with a plan to help their child, we are allowing the parents to still play a role in their child’s life.

As a child grows and develops they will encounter new agents this usually happens when a child starts school. This secondary socialisation builds on the family values, whilst introducing new social skills, for example acceptable behaviour within larger groups. These rules become "norms" that are carried with people throughout life. Failure to conform with the expectations of others is met by social sanctions, for example, in school classroom a child that is seen as disruptive would be removed from the classroom, this would be an attempt to teach the child that behaviour that disrupts the class is is not acceptable within that particular social group. This social control will be used to shape the children into acceptable members of the school society.

These positive interactions are vital for student engagement and learning. When combined with positive supports and strategies classroom misbehaviors can be reduced as students learn to master the appropriate classroom expectations. Additionally, when teacher expectations for academic achievement remain high, it elevates the student’s self-esteem making it more likely that they will pursue their educational and professional goals (Montgomery, 2001). Another instructional strategy used in culturally responsive classrooms is the ability for students to become active in their own individual learning (Cartledge & Kourea, 2008). School projects can be selected that reflect the background, interests, and experiences that relate directly to the learner.