Social and Emotional Intelligence - a vital part of a child's entitlement in both primary and secondary education.
How (emotionally) intelligent are you?
- How do you cope when you make a mistake?
- Can you control your impulses and moods?
- How do you feel when someone else is successful?
- Can you handle stress and discomfort?
- Are you a good leader and motivator?
- Can you motivate yourself to achieve your best?
- Have you got goals and values that help you make good decisions?
The above questions help measure your EQ - not your IQ.
Emotional Intelligence develops the ability to manage attitudes and behaviours in order to create successful outcomes. It includes:
- Self-awareness
- Optimism
- Empathy
- Goal setting
- Deferred gratification
- Mood control
- Motivation
- Persistence
- Stress management
Social intelligence is the ability to form an sustain relationships with a range of different people. Why are some people better at networking and being popular with their peers? Can we teach those skills? Can we help students to develop a set of values that will help them be true to themselves despite peer pressure?
Secondary schools now have to deliver social and emotional intelligence programmes to all students (SEAL) If you need help with this please contact Jackie Beere and find out about 'The Learner's Toolkit'*, the perfect resource to inspire teachers to deliver social and emotional learning. Go to my 'Publications' page to get more details.
Social and Emotional Intelligence can be developed at all ages. A course or consultancy provided by Jackie Beere for teachers, parents or students based around EQ could include:
- What EQ is and why we need it for success
- A self-assessment of your own EQ
- The ten habits of emotional intelligence
- How to be popular
- How to develop the disposition for learning
- Techniques and strategies for increasing EQ
- Examples of lessons and programmes
- Creating an emotionally intelligent institution
- Resources and references for continuing development
*'The Learner's Toolkit' (November 2007) published by Crown House Publications