Timothy Curby

Many researchers, teachers, and parents would agree that children's social-emotional learning (SEL) skills are important to develop. However, the role that teachers play in promoting children's emotional competencies is not well understood. Emotion-focused teaching constitutes adults' modeling of, responding to, and instructing about emotions that supports children's learning about emotions and the emotional bases of social interactions. The purpose of this project was to develop an observat...

The University of Virginia's Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Training Program in Education Sciences (PTPES) built upon the Curry School of Education's interdisciplinary focus on risk and prevention and educationally relevant research in a range of departments in the College of Arts and Sciences.