Enhancing Attachment In Early Care Settings

Early childhood is a crucial phase for social and emotional development. The experiences children encounter in these formative years play a vital role in shaping their future paths. In early care settings, children need to develop a wide range of cognitive skills and social/emotional competencies to support their success throughout their school career and into adulthood.​

The Circle of Security™ Classrooms Approach (COSC) incorporates a vast body of research in attachment and developmental psychology. Children learn within the context of relationship, so it is not surprising that secure attachment to early care providers has a significant positive effect on children’s school readiness and learning. Attachment theory, in general, and COS, in particular, provide critical organizing principles for the development of teacher-child relationships.

Rather than learning techniques to manage children’s behaviors, the COS Classroom Approach brings lasting change to early care professionals and the children in their care by developing relationship capacities. Children who have the opportunity to experience a secure base relationship with a trustworthy adult who they see every day learn relationship capacities from these adults that they will carry with them – capacities for positive relationships, emotion regulation, executive functioning, and other capacities that accompany security, like trust, patience, and cooperation. These social-emotional skills allow children to engage with the world around them and make learning easier.

COS Classrooms is suitable for teachers, early childhood educators, OSHC providers and allied health practitioners working with multiple children.

Source: https://www.circleofsecurityinternational.com/cosc-approach-an-overview/