Buddy Up: Teaching Friendship Skills To Young Children
Overview:
Pyramid 802 Plus provides early childhood educators with a hands-on, intentional approach to teaching essential Friendship Skills—key building blocks for positive peer relationships and social success. This session, part of the 2023 updated and revised Pyramid Model training series, focuses on integrating friendship skill instruction into play-based experiences and daily classroom routines.
Session Highlights:
Modeling and Teaching Friendship Skills: Learn how to effectively model, teach, and reinforce critical friendship behaviors such as sharing, taking turns, entering play, making requests, and sharing ideas.
Understanding the Stages of Learning: Explore the Stages of Learning framework and how it guides the planning and delivery of friendship skills instruction.
Practical Application in the Classroom: Discover hands-on strategies to teach friendship skills through everyday play and routines. Participants will try out these strategies with their peers and gain confidence in applying them in their own classrooms.
Family Engagement Tools: Access ideas and resources for extending friendship skills into the home environment through family partnerships.
What You’ll Learn:
Why Friendship Skills Matter:
Understand the crucial role friendship skills play in children's social-emotional development and overall classroom climate.
Using the Learning Cycle:
Gain insight into how the Stages of Learning can guide the planning and delivery of friendship skills instruction.
Everyday Teaching Practices:
Identify ways to teach and reinforce friendship skills during daily play and classroom routines. Walk away with practical ideas aligned with the Pyramid Model framework.
Family Engagement:
Explore resources and strategies to involve families in helping children practice friendship skills at home and in school.
Who Should Attend:
This training is ideal for:
Early childhood educators
Classroom support staff
Professionals working in preschool or kindergarten settings
Educators focusing on strengthening social-emotional learning through intentional, play-based teaching practices
Ready to Bring This Training to Your Program?
To schedule or learn more about bringing Pyramid 802 Plus Training to your program, contact us at info@pyramid802plus.live.