Emotional Intelligence Carrie Hefner ~ Bonnie Knight ~ Risa Jones ~ Karen McCullough

Anticipatory Survey To gauge our students’ present level of emotional intelligence for class, we propose immersing our students in an anticipatory warm-up exercise called, “Text a Keyword.” Students choose from a range of four emotions to share their present feeling via texting to the teacher-coach, their staunch advocate and learning facilitator.

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What is Emotional Intelligence (EI)? Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and author of the bestseller Emotional Intelligence Selling Social and Emotional Learning: An Interview with Daniel Goleman

Goleman’s Five ‘Domains’ of Emotional Quotient (EQ) 1. Knowing your emotions 2. Managing your own emotions 3. Motivating yourself 4. Recognizing and understanding other people’s emotions 5. Managing relationships, i.e., managing your reactions to people’s emotions

Child’s Demonstration of EQ “I know how I feel. I can say how I feel. I am learning how to handle my feelings. I know how they feel. I can say how they feel. I am learning how to handle their feelings.”

What is Emotional Literacy? Dr. Marc Brackett, developer of the curriculum, “Emotional Literacy in the Classroom,” defines emotional literacy as, “ The knowledge associated with R U L E R ecognizing, U nderstanding, L abeling, E xpressing and R R egulating emotions.”” He coined the RULER model.

“A two-year ( ) University of Wisconsin study by researcher Stephen Elliott of two Springfield, Massachusetts, schools -- one that used a social and emotional learning program called Responsive Classroom and one that did not - - found significant social and academic dividends for students in the Responsive Classroom program.” Responsive Classroom In a Responsive Classroom Research on EL

The program is based on six components: 1.A morning meeting 2.Classroom organization, rules and logical consequences 3.Guided discovery 4.Academic choice 5.Assessment 6.Reporting ~Emotional-Intelligence Research: Indicators Point to the Importance of SEL, Edutopia Research on EL cont’d.

“An evaluation of the three groups of students at age 18, found that those who had participated in the full social development program from grades one through six were involved in fewer violent acts, less likely to use alcohol, drugs, or tobacco, less sexually active, had fewer teen pregnancies, and better behaved in school.

Research on EL cont’d. “They had a greater commitment to school and better academic achievement than both the group with no program at all and the group that had participated in the program in the 5 th and 6 th grades.” ~Emotional-Intelligence Research: Indicators Point to the Importance of SEL, Edutopia Emotional Intelligence ZiTfTcFo&feature=related ZiTfTcFo&feature=related

Contemplation Contemplation is considered the closure that summarizes the key points of a lesson whose purpose is to increase retention through experimentation.  It is advised that during summarization, all interference be avoided until summarizing is complete.  Interference: Interjecting any new information, whether related or not to the subject being summarized, that detracts or interferes with the summarization of facts.

YAY! A Group Activity! Prepare to have fun! Please take a piece of sheet of construction paper and write your name on it with a crayon. Ask your neighbor to please tape it on the back of your shirt.

“High Five ~ Group Activity”  Building self-esteem is an easy task when giving and receiving genuine compliments.  Use a large sheet of construction paper taped to the back of each student’s top and a marker. Each student moves around the room and writes a positive comment on each other student’s paper, drawing attention to their strengths, gifts, or talents.  Then ask each student to read what others have written about them. Open discussion should follow based on the comments shared. Taken from the Emotional Intelligence Activities, p. 15.

EI Activities Explore this wonderful resource (thank you, Karen!) for learning more about our students through the awesome, eye~opening plethora of activities that your students will love to engage, in the Emotional Intelligence Activities book. ction=Show&item_id=3720&destination=ShowItem ction=Show&item_id=3720&destination=ShowItem

References Edutopia. (2010). Selling social and emotional learning: An interview with Daniel Goleman. Retrieved October 15, 2010 from Eferrysel. (2008). SELmedia; emotional literacy. Retrieved October 20, 2010 from estination=ShowItem estination=ShowItem estination=ShowItem Marzano, R. J., Norford, J. S., & Paynter, D. E. (2001). A handbook for classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D. J., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Unknown. (2003). Emotional intelligence activities for teens ages 13–18. Retrieved October 15, 2010 from estination=ShowItem estination=ShowItem estination=ShowItem

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