The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Education : Must Know

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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Education
Must Know

• What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)? This is the
  ability to identify, evaluate, control, and
  express emotions in an effective way. A child
  with high EQ can communicate better, resolve
  conflicts, improve relationships, and overcomes
  lifes challenges.
• Developing a high EQ can help determine a more
  successful carrier. It can affect the choices by
  giving more options we might not have thought
  otherwise considered as possible. Research shows
  that students with higher levels of EQ are more
  empathetic to others around them and lead a more
  confident life.
• Emotional Intelligence is a mixture of
• Emotional Literacy Ability to recognize your
  feelings and simultaneously feelings of others
• Managing Emotions Skill of controlling your
  emotions
• Developing empathy Understanding and sharing the
  feeling of others around you
• Intrinsic motivation Pushing yourself to meet
  the goals yet to be set
• Role of EQ in education
• GIIS Singapore helps a child in developing the
  following traits
• Improvement in self-awareness and self-motivation
• Better stress management
• Build empathy
• Communicate effectively
• Make better decisions
• Develop relationships
• How to build EQ in students?
• Developing Self-awareness - Teachers at Global
  Indian International School Singapore, teach
  students to understand their emotions so that a
  child develops a habit of not letting his
  feelings rule them. Low self-awareness children
  are at more risk as they do not know how to come
  across with others.
• Active Listening - The skill of active listening
  is an important key to develop EQ skills. Active
  listening is far more than just paying
  attention. It involves a demonstration that you
  have understood the message.
• The vocabulary of feelings Students are taught
  to understand the difference between sad,
  disappointed, and upset. Every emotional word
  is a new tool for future emotional intelligence.
  Introduce students with different emotional words
  with each letter of the alphabet to make them
  understand the difference in emotions.

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Listen to a childs feeling Help a child to
overcome a negative emotion by talking to them
about it. Asking more questions about how a
situation has made them feel and why it will help
them to overcome negative feelings. Make them
learn to be assertive Teaching children the
importance of No is quite crucial. No one in
this world can do everything, and to say No
without hurting others, is an important skill to
develop EQ. A child should know his/her limits
and should not overburden himself with too much
workload and commitments. Teach to maintain a
positive attitude Children should be taught
that no matter how miserable life circumstances
are, they will not last for long. Tell them that
we can not change circumstances, but we can
change our attitude. Learning to be neutral and
keep doing our duties without expectations is an
essential key factor to develop Emotional
Intelligence ability.