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How Experiences Impact the Developing Brain
1.0 clock hourSocial-Emotional DevelopmentSocial-Emotional
A substitute walks into rooms without knowing the children, the routine, or where anything is. This lesson is about the small, ordinary moments in that gap — and why how you answer them carries real developmental weight, even on a single day.
In this lesson you'll
- Describe how repeated back-and-forth interactions between a child and an adult build brain architecture.
- Identify serve-and-return opportunities during a typical substitute shift.
- State what a responsive adult does to buffer a child's stress response.
- Describe why one day of predictable, warm care from a substitute has developmental value.
4 decision points to work through.