Topic: What role does Emotional Intelligence play in creating a healthy classroom?
I feel it is important to create an environment that is conducive to learning. When you have children in a classroom that have frequent outbursts, disrespectful attitudes towards the teacher and other students, it can make leaning difficult for those students wanting to learn.
Emotional Intelligence is defined as "The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically"
To develop Emotional Intelligence competencies you first have to be aware of your emotions and behavior (Self Awareness), to manage your negative and destructive emotions (Self Management), and share your positive experiences with others (Relationship Management).
Marc A. Brackett wrote: "Research indicates that social and emotional skills associated with success in many areas of life, including effective teaching, student learning, quality relationships, and academic performance"
There are many classroom activities to address emotional literacy. One activity would be to list and define various emotions: what triggers these emotions, what a child can do to deal with the emotion, and how their emotion affects the people that are around them. Not only is it important for the children to have emotional intelligence but also the teacher when dealing with difficult children.
"All learning has an emotional base." -- Plato
Great job on this blog post Ashley! Emotions are very important with children. Also especially important in a learning environment. I think that children learn more when emotionally stable. This is a good assignment for your students and something important to learn from as a teacher.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that environment is really important in learning. As educator in the future, I believe that students can having fun while learning, it make students feel more comfortable and learning better. Also, emotion is important too. If students in good emotion, they can learn better. I enjoyed reading your post, and it was thoughtful.
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