Greater educational and work success

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Greater educational and work success

• A wider view of intelligence now includes
  emotional intelligence
• Emotional and social competencies have been shown
  to be more influential than cognitive for
  personal, career and academic success
• Programmes that teach about social and emotional
  competencies have been shown to result in
  improved school attendance, higher motivation and
  higher morale
• Workplaces increasingly focus on teamwork,
  communication and management skills

2
Improvements in behaviour

• The successful programmes taught emotional and
  social competencies that focused on the whole
  school environment
• Programmes that taught social and emotional
  competencies were effective in decreasing early
  behaviour problems

3
Increased inclusion

• Teaching children with challenging behaviour the
  kind of skills they needed to fit into the
  classroom more easily while helping classmates to
  support their efforts helped difficult pupils to
  stay in the classroom without detriment to the
  learning of other children

4
Improved Learning

• Some emotions such as anger and sadness can block
  learning while a sense of wellbeing or feeling
  safe and valued promote learning. Learning to
  manage emotions can assist learning.
• We need emotions to think clearly, prioritise,
  decide and plan. People cannot think clearly when
  dominated by powerful emotions, especially
  negative ones

5
Greater social cohesion

• There is an increasing acceptance of emotion in
  public and private life. We need to become more
  skilled in this area if we aim to be effective in
  our communities.
• Changes in society mean that complex challenges
  increasingly demand emotional and social
  competence

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Improvements to mental health

• Research is showing that children suffer from a
  high level of mental health problems
• Children with social and emotional problems are
  prone to mental illness in later life and have
  increased likelihood of antisocial behaviour,
  drug misuse and offending
• Conversely children with high levels of social
  and emotional competence do better at school, at
  work and in personal life