Dr. Karen Wilson
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835 appearances
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2025
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And I have an opportunity to
help parents and educators better understand so that they can better support kids so that they can be successful.
Sure.
And I think when you're talking about kids who are in preschool, oftentimes asking the preschool teacher, you know, where are my child's gaps?
What are their strengths?
That's an important conversation to have as you're preparing for that transition.
And some of the things that you're looking for as parents, and I was looking for as a parent of a five and a seven year old when they were transitioning, is you're looking at their social emotional functioning, because oftentimes the emphasis is on those pre-academic skills.
You know, can they write their name?
Can they hold a pencil?
And while those things are important, in kindergarten, they'll eventually learn those things.
But I think the social-emotional factors are so important because children are gonna be able, are gonna have to begin participating in group activities.
They're gonna have to really exercise good social and behavioral regulation, regulation of their emotions.
They're gonna have to understand others' feelings and show empathy.
And I think those social-emotional learning factors
are so incredibly important.
And then really looking at the ability to pay attention, attention and executive functioning.
What's so interesting is we often think of executive functioning as being important in middle school and high school, but it actually begins so much earlier.
So a child's ability to kind of shift their focus from one task in the classroom to another, to go from circle time to a center table to do another activity.
That's executive functioning.
And what we're learning more and more is that
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