Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence

• Mayer and Salovey, 1990
• Goleman, 1995

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Emotional Intelligence

• The ability to monitor, process and understand
  ones own and others emotions and use that
  information to guide ones thinking and behavior

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EQ Involves Four Dimensions

• Emotional Awareness
• Management of Emotions
• Reading Emotions
• Handling Relationships

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Developing Emotional Awareness

• Perceiving what we are feeling
• Separating what we are feeling from what we are
  doing

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Managing Emotions

• Not be overwhelmed by positive or negative
  emotions
• Controlling emotions
• Delaying gratification
• Appropriate reactions to frustration, anger, etc.

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Reading Emotions

• Taking perspective of others
• Sensitive to nonverbal cues
• Empathy

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Handling Relationships

• Solve relationship problems
• Integrate emotions into thinking and actions
• Accept rejection, attention, etc.

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EQ in School

• Empathy training
• Scripted Practice and Role Play
• Nonverbal literacy

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Strategies for Improving Social Skills

• Help children learn to listen both to
  themselves and to others.
• Help them learn to show behaviors that might
  improve their chances with others (empathy,
  listening, communication, etc.)
• Help them learn to get attention in positive ways.

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Show them how to

• Initiate interaction
• Be kind and cooperative
• Show respect
• Not be aggressive, disrespectful, inconsiderate

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Use games, role play, etc for

• Peer relations
• Empathy
• POV
• Interdependence