Introduction
by Iryna Baliashchuk
This WebQuest is about the regulation of children's emotions and developing self-control. This topic is quite relevant for all generations. All of us will become parents in the future and should know how to deal with a child's emotions in one or another situation.
This section discusses the infant and toddler stages of emotional development and how children depend on their parents to teach them how to control and maintain their emotions and behaviors. The section also talks about what is best for parents to do in certain situations in regard to helping their children develop effortful control. Depending on how well a child's emotional control develops at an early age and how involved their parents are in the early stages, the child can later develop a more vital emotional intelligence.
Task
You will read an article and watch two separate videos about emotion coaching and emotion dismissing. It would help if you took notes on what the differences are between the two and what characteristics they have in order to identify these actions.
As a form of practicing your understanding of emotion coaching and emotion dismissing, you will read two different situations about a parent and their child. It will be your job to in your notes, talk about what you saw in the situations that determine whether or not the parent was emotion coaching or emotion dismissing. You will then discuss your findings with your groupmates (the article and videos).
As a creative task, you could make an infographic or something else. You must explain what both emotion coaching and emotion dismissing are. You should also mention what makes them so different and present some examples.
Process
The following videos best show Emotion Coaching and Emotion Dismissing. Note what the parent is doing to the reactions of the child.
Movie Example of Emotion Dismissing
Here is an article that best discusses both and what characteristics the parents have to determine if they are emotion coaching or emotion dismissing.
Emotion Coaching VS. Emotion Dismissing Article
Below are two different situations. As practice on identifying emotion coaching and emotion dismissing, you are to identify what the parent is doing to change the child's emotion and why they chose to take the route they did.
Situation 1:
There is a little boy in a park with his mom. He is playing in the sandbox with his best friend. His best friend leaves and the boy starts to cry. He goes to his mom and tells her that his friend is gone. The mom then sits her son down and tries to soothe him while she tells him that his friend is not gone forever and he is only crying because he is sad and he misses him. She also explains to him that everyone gets sad when someone they are close to goes away. It is a normal thing to not want them to go away and be sad when they do. The mom then reminds her son that his friend will be back tomorrow and the boy is no longer crying.
Situation 2:
A 4-year-old girl is in a toy store with her dad looking for a gift to give her baby sister for her birthday. The girl sees a toy that she really wants and the dad says they are getting that gift for the baby and not her. The dad reminds the girl that they were there for the baby not her. The girl then starts to cry and throws a tantrum because she wants the toy. To stop his daughter from crying and make her happy, the dad grabs another one of the same toys and gives it to her. She then stops crying.
With a partner, you will make a brochure out of printing paper. You must define what emotion coaching and emotion dismissing are and further explain them. Also, give examples of when and where these actions are typically seen. After you are done creating the brochure you will present it to a group and explain the contents of it to them.
Evaluation
This is how your work will be evaluated.
| Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Qualified 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
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| Group Work | The effort was not shared within the project. Only one person completed the work. | Both participated in the work but didn't communicate about the tasks of the project. | Both participated though one took over more than the other. | Both did equal work, understood the material, and communicated it scholarly. | |
| Participation | Didn't take notes, didn't participate in discussions, and didn't speak during the presentation. | Minimum effort to the work did not engage in the group activity. | Did their part but did as little as possible. | Took part in all steps of the project. Did equal work to the others. | |
| Material | Did not take notes nor did they discuss the proper information for their final project. | Took notes but did not understand the information to explain it in their own words. | Took notes but did not use their own research to better explain the information. | Used all notes and self-done research in the final project to show that they fully understand the information. | |
| Creativeness | Used only a bulleted list of notes. No visual aids. Lack of useful material. | Allowed the information to flow neatly but did not have visuals that supported the information. | Had all requirements but not the personal touch to make it unique. | Showed a great amount of material, and pictures. A tremendous and unique way to cover the material. | |
| Presentation | Only one spoke while the other had nothing to say. | Both spoke but did not fully explain their final project. | They explained their final project but did not cite the sources used to back up their information. | Both spoke equally and expressed their understanding of the information. Fully explained their final project. |
Conclusion
After reading and going through this WebQuest you will walk away with newfound knowledge on Emotion Coaching and Emotion Dismissing. You will easily be able to identify both of these in day-to-day life through observations of others. And lastly, you will know how to better explain these concepts to others in your own words.
Teacher Page
I suppose that it's important to teach students about Emotion Coaching and Emotion Dismissing because this knowledge could help in the future. Through interviewing my students, I found that they don't know almost anything about these aspects of life. This impacted my choice to include videos of Emotion Coaching and Emotion Dismissing, which will help the students to learn the difference between these two statements.
Students will spend:
1. (1-2 days) working through WebQuest.
2. One class for watching videos and taking notes.
3. One class for presenting infographics.
After the presentations:
Have a discussion with the students about what they learned through completing the WebQuest.