Create behavior contracts outlining expectations and consequences for behavior. Collaborate with children to establish goals and rewards for positive behavior and consequences for disruptive behavior, promoting accountability and self-regulation.

Bandura's child development theory suggests that observation plays a critical role in learning, but this observation does not necessarily need to take the form of watching a live model.



Instead, people can also learn by listening to verbal instructions about how to perform a behavior as well as through observing either real or fictional characters displaying behaviors in books or films.

Examples of social learning theory in the classroom can include:

• Flipping the classroom

• Gamification

• Teachers using rewards to support built-in motivational learning

• Encouraging connections and relationships between students

• Peer mentoring, peer teaching, or peer assessments 

• Student-created videos or presentations

• Giving positive reinforcement to students who are carrying out the desired behavior

• Debates

• Student-created video skits or role playing

• Monitored social media use

While Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development shared some similarities with Freud's, it is dramatically different in many ways. Rather than focusing on sexual interest as a driving force in development, Erikson believed that social interaction and experience played decisive roles.

His eight-stage theory of human development described this process from infancy through death. During each stage, people are faced with a developmental conflict that impacts later functioning and further growth.

Unlike many other developmental theories, Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory focuses on development across the entire lifespan. At each stage, children and adults face a developmental crisis that serves as a major turning point.

At the preschool level, teachers want to focus on helping children develop healthy personalities and

• Find out what students are interested in and create projects that incorporate their area of interest.

• Make sure to point out and praise students for good choices.

• Offer continuous, authentic feedback.

• Not ridicule or criticize students. They should find a private place to talk with a child about a poor choice or behavior.

• Help students formulate their own alternate choices by guiding them to a more positive solution and outcome.

• When children experiment, they should not be punished for trying something that may turn out differently from what the teacher had planned.