{"id":71491,"date":"2021-04-05T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=71491"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:57","slug":"muralitharan-6-ways-to-teach-kindergarten-kids-to-deal-with-stress-during-covid-19-whether-learning-online-or-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/04\/muralitharan-6-ways-to-teach-kindergarten-kids-to-deal-with-stress-during-covid-19-whether-learning-online-or-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"MURALITHARAN: 6 ways to teach kindergarten kids to deal with stress during COVID-19, whether learning online or at school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niluja Muralitharan, a PhD student in Education at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/6-ways-to-teach-kindergarten-kids-to-deal-with-stress-during-covid-19-whether-learning-online-or-at-school-154807?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%202%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%202%202021+CID_a6fedc6862d107d340eb645d147348ba&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=6%20ways%20to%20teach%20kindergarten%20kids%20to%20deal%20with%20stress%20during%20COVID-19%20whether%20learning%20online%20or%20at%20school\">The Conversation<\/a> <\/em>about the importance of developing self-regulation within children.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSince the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been anxiously waiting for it to end. While managing uncertainty and lockdowns, school boards have had to transition from in-person and classroom settings to offer\u00a0online learning.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>In this past difficult year,\u00a0stress levels in many people\u00a0have\u00a0increased. Supporting children\u2019s self-regulation is one focus of kindergarten education, including\u00a0Ontario\u2019s full-day kindergarten.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Self-regulation is how we manage the everyday stressors of life including all our energy and emotions. Developing self-regulation\u00a0is central to a child\u2019s capacity to learn\u00a0and is critical for\u00a0both social relationships and academic knowledge in years to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>For children enrolled both in online kindergarten or in-person learning due to the pandemic, the need to continue to learn self-regulation has never been more important.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/6-ways-to-teach-kindergarten-kids-to-deal-with-stress-during-covid-19-whether-learning-online-or-at-school-154807?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%202%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%202%202021+CID_a6fedc6862d107d340eb645d147348ba&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=6%20ways%20to%20teach%20kindergarten%20kids%20to%20deal%20with%20stress%20during%20COVID-19%20whether%20learning%20online%20or%20at%20school\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niluja Muralitharan, a PhD student in Education at Brock University had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the importance of developing self-regulation within children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,188,55,6],"tags":[32,98,10152,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71515,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions\/71515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}