Beginnings School

At Housman Institute's lab school, Beginnings Child Development Center, teachers frequently utilize CTEE. One essential goal of CTEE includes developing the ability to identify, and constructively express and regulate intense emotions with the aim of conflict resolution and problem solving. Applying CTEE yields tremendous long-term benefits for you... ng children including: an increase in emotional expressiveness, emotion regulation, emotion communication, and understanding of one's own and other's emotions. The outcomes of emotion knowledge and emotion regulation have long been associated with self-regulation, empathy, prosocial skills, and other foundational social and emotional competencies. Given the prolific and evident benefits of CTEE, as well as the knowledge that CTEE occurs as part of the larger framework of social and emotional competencies, we as educators, policy makers, and other influential adults must better understand how to implement Causal Talk in the Emotional Experience, a foundational component of begin to ...ECSEL.Read More