a Running An Emotionally Intelligent Classroom by spatterson | Aug 1, 2020 | education, stephen patterson
Running a classroom comes with a lot of di culties, especially with younger children. There are many lessons to teach your classroom that will help your students develop into ne adults. One of the most important lessons a teacher can teach is emotional intelligence. If you didn’t know, emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions as well as the emotions of others. Its important children are capable of this from a young age, and it’s more than likely they have been taught it to some degree from their home. But if this is a child’s rst time being constantly surrounded by similar age students, then it’s important to reinforce it while they’re amongst their peers. Here are a few ways you can help your students with emotional intelligence.
Help Students Understand Emotions While your students likely have a good understanding of emotions, it’s possible that they’ll be experiencing many new ones whether by experiencing the emotions themselves or observing them via one of their classmates. It’s imperative that they understand how to recognize and react properly to these various emotions. If they say something mean to one of their classmates which causes the classmate to cry, they need to understand why what they did upset the classmate and why it was wrong. In turn, if they’re upset or frustrated about something, they should understand how to recognize it and how to handle their emotions.