Emotional Intelligence Programs

Herring, Shannon (2001). "The Relationship amongst Social and Emotional Intelligence in Children" Masters Theses and Specialist Projects. Paper 663.

The book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, provides an alternative approach to how a person achieves success. This book does not focus on the conventional determinant of success, such as formal education and training, experience, and intelligence level (IQ). Although all these components contribute greatly to ones achievement of success, these factors are not the only factors to be considered in whether a person will be successful or not. This book focuses on the concept that it refers to as emotional intelligence (EQ), which is one’s ability to recognize and effectively understand his/her emotions in a productive and rational manner.

The main objectives of these studies are to find out the impact of emotional intelligence at the workplace, in learning institutions as well as in the social circles of human beings. The concept of emotional intelligence has been linked with self-confidence when it comes to learning. This is because according to recent studies emotional intelligence can be related to improving the self-esteem of learners. It’s not possible for an individual to be confident if they don’t recognize who they are, especially how to manage frustrations and temper (Elizabeth, 2002). The ability for an individual to remain calm even in challenging moments shows that they have high emotional stability and great

Preparing students for life success, requires a balanced education that includes social and emotional education. It is important that families, schools and communities come together to achieve this. This article is researching the positive effects, of social and emotional learning of students in kindergarten to eighth grade. This article summarizes three reviews of research on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on elementary school and middle age school students. These programs promote social and emotional skills (Weissberg, Taylor, Schellinger, Payton, Pachan, Dymcicki and Durlak, 2008). The SEL programs showed many benefits in both school and after-school settings for students with and without behavioral and

Two psychologists, John Mayer and Peter Salovey, first introduced the concept of “emotional intelligence”, or EI, in a journal article in 1990 (Goleman, 2005). It was then popularized in 1995, with the book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman. Goleman posited that EI is as important, if not more important, than IQ in terms of success in academics, business, and interpersonal relationships (2005).

Managing human emotions plays a critical role in everyday functioning. After years of lively debate on the significance and validity of its construct, emotional intelligence (EI) has generated a robust body of theories, research studies, and measures (Stough, Saklofske, & Parker). There has been work and many ideas by Jack Mayer, Peter Salovey, David Caruso, Daniel Goleman, and Steve Hein to name a few. All researchers have different interpretations of the term emotional intelligence and different visions of what emotional intelligence can mean for humanity (Hein, 2005). In 1985 Wayne Leon Payne, then a graduate student at an alternative liberal arts college in the USA, wrote a doctoral dissertation which included the term “emotional intelligence” in the title. This seems to be the first academic use of the term “emotional intelligence.” In the next five years no one else seems to have used the term “emotional intelligence” in any academic paper. Then in 1990 the work of two American university professors, John Mayer and Peter Salovey, was published in two academic journal articles. Mayer and Salovey were trying to develop a way of scientifically measuring the difference between people’s ability in the area of emotions. They found that some people were better than others at things like identifying their own feelings, identifying the feelings of others, and solving problems involving emotional issues. Since 1990 these professors

“Emotional intelligence is the ability to regulate your emotions and understanding others for effective problem solving and living happily” (236 kail). Logan and his brother Austin often fight about ‘who ate the chips,’ or’ who did not do their chores.’ They have both failed to demonstrate emotional intelligence, in which resulted in pushing each other and insults. “Emotional coaching is a style of teaching that help people navigate the world of emotions. This requires taking others emotions seriously, seeing things from their point of view, and helping them develop skills to deal effectively with their emotions (Byerwalter “Emotional Coaching Handout”). My boyfriend Austin and I both know how to emotional coach. Since

The document, The Inventory of Practice for Promoting Social Emotional Competence, CSEFEL (2013) is a helpful document to evaluate the teacher’s strength and weakness in promoting children the social and emotional competence as educators. The document, CSEFEL (2013), suggest that in order to promote children’s social and emotional competence, the classroom teacher needs to have skills in the qualities, such as building positive relationships with children and family, designing supportive environments in the classroom, social emotional teaching strategies to enhance the children’s self-esteem , and individualized intensive interventions as necessary (CSEFEL, 2013).

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More than ever before, our country needs schools that will prepare today’s youth for the challenges and opportunities they face, youth who will become knowledgeable, responsible, and caring citizens and leaders for the future. An outstanding education prepares students to be strong in a wide range of academic disciplines. This essay focuses on Social Emotional Learning and how to implement and sustain it within schools so that students can achieve greater academic success.

Most Public School Districts are committed to making sure that students develop content mastery and apply literacy skills in order to be ready for college and career. Students should learn SEL skills so they will not become distracted during instruction, by integrating academic lessons and activities with participation in classroom instruction. The purpose of teaching and providing opportunities are to help students develop the Ruler skills. The Ruler is an essential part of behavior to build relationships for academic success. In fact, research shows that emotions are pervasive in the way children think and play. Teachers have observed in classroom activities that students are overwhelmed with emotions, like frustration, loneliness, enjoyment, and interest. The cognitive process, and behavioral changes that support emotional experiences are adaptive, when the information they provide is attended for interpretations.

Emotions can be defined as “organised responses,” that cross “the boundaries of many psychological subsystems, including the physiological, cognitive, motivational, and experimental systems.” Emotions will usually arise “in response to an event, either internal or external, that has a positive or negative meaning for the individual” (Salovey & Mayer, 1990, p. 189). Intelligence can be defined as “the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with his environment” (Wechsler, 1944, p. 3). When these two concepts are put together, emotional intelligence is created. Emotional intelligence can be defined as “the ability to monitor one 's own and others ' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one 's thinking and actions” (Salovey & Mayer, 1990, p. 189). Health care professionals use emotional intelligence on a daily basis, when communicating with patients, when

Education is an increasingly difficult and demanding vocation. Educators are tasked with improving student learning, while increasingly receiving students with diverse cultural norms. To help every student succeed, many educators are implementing some form of social and emotional learning (SEL) technique within their class or their school. This broad reaching term refers to a variety of tools that are shown to help establish social norms, teach common values, and ensure that everyone understands and follows the school’s expectations. While SEL helps students succeed, at times it is not implemented because of time constraints, increased effort, and the pressure to improve student learning. Educators who are judged on student performance

Emotional intelligence was described formally by (Salovey & Mayer). They defined it as ‘the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions’. They also provided an initial empirical demonstration of how an aspect of emotional

In John Gottman’s, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, it is found that teaching children to regulate and understand their emotions is important in order to create an emotionally healthy generation. Emotional intelligence, which is referred to as an “IQ” of people and the world of feelings (Gottman 17), contributes to the success of life emotionally, socially, and mentally of oneself. According to Gottman, there are multiple contributing factors that influence a child’s emotional intelligence which are parents and their parenting style, parent’s emotional expression, a parent’s interest or relationship with the child specifically between father and child, and the influences of the parent’s relationship on the child. The