• Participants will be able to
discuss why it is important to
be intentional about supporting
social emotional development
in infants and toddlers
• Participants will be able to
describe the importance of
caregiving routines and identify
strategies for using them to
support social emotional
development
• Participants will be able to
identify key ways in which the
physical environment can
promote social emotional
development in infants and
toddlers
• Participants will be able to
examine the environments in
which they work and begin to
make plans to enhance them
to meet the needs of infants
and toddlers in care
• Participants will be able to
define emotional literacy and
describe the kinds of
interactions between adults
and infants and toddlers that
support emotional literacy
• Participants will be able to
identify strategies for helping to
build social skills in infants and
toddlers
