WE should be IN AN EMOTION(al) revolution!! DIANE MCFARLIN WE should be IN AN EMOTION(al) revolution!!

Who is interested….? https://youtu.be/4MpUMaguZuU Lady GAGA

Emotional Intelligence: Dr. Marc Brackett – YALE UNIVERSITY If 22,000 high school students were surveyed from around the country and asked the following: How do you feel, most of the time? Take a guess as to what the top three answers were: (Activity)

Students Feel: 1. TIRED 2. BORED 3. STRESSED

How do students want to feel? If 22,000 high school students were surveyed from around the country and asked the following: How do you want to feel? Take a guess as to what the top three answers were. (Activity)

Students want to Feel: 1. HAPPY 2. EXCITED 3. ENERGIZED

Crisis in our schools….. Over the last 5 years, the number of our hospitalized students has tripled . During that time period, the multiple hospitalizations have doubled. Over the same period of time, 504 plans for our anxiety ridden students have been written and have tripled in number.

NATIONALLY…. SINCE DECEMBER 2012 (SANDY HOOK); THERE HAS BEEN A SCHOOL SHOOTING AVERAGING ONE PER WEEK. (Cause?) SUICIDE RATES – ACCORDING TO THE CDC – 41,149 SUICIDES WERE REPORTED (YEAR – 2013) – AFTER CANCER AND HEART DISEASE, SUICIDE ACCOUNTS FOR MORE LIVES LOST THAN ANY OTHER CAUSE OF DEATH. (Cause?)

What should educators do? “We need to be working just as hard on Social Emotional Learning as Academic Learning” Dr. Marc Brackett – Yale University

What is Emotional Intelligence? “ Emotional Intelligence is the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action.” (Think about the struggling anxiety ridden student….which part are they struggling with?)

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotions Matter Emotions drive learning, decision-making, creativity, relationships, and physical and mental health Everyday effectiveness – Who is YOUR Best Self? –(Activity) What came up for you?

R U L E R………….. R ecognizing….. U nderstanding…. L abeling……. E xpressing…. Regulating……. EMOTIONS – OURS

MOOD METER…… Learning to identify and label emotions is a critical step toward cultivating emotional intelligence. Using the Mood Meter, students and educators become more mindful of how their emotions change throughout the day and how their emotions in turn affect their actions.

MOOD METER……. They develop the self-awareness they need to inform their choices. Students learn to expand their emotional vocabulary, replacing basic feeling words with more sophisticated terms. They graduate from using words like ‘ok’ or ‘fine’ to using words like ‘alienated’ and ‘hopeless,’ or ‘tranquil’ and ‘serene.’

MOOD METER………. By teaching subtle distinctions between similar feelings, the Mood Meter empowers students and educators to recognize the full scope of their emotional lives and address all feelings more effectively.

HOW DO YOU FEEL???

Measuring Emotional Intelligence LESS SKILLED: Conduct Aggressive Risky sexual behavior MORE SKILLED Empathy Well-being Adaptability

STRESS: GOOD vs. BAD Good Stress: motivates us; promotes well being; enhances performance (POSITIVE CHALLENGE) Bad Stress: makes us physically sick; weakens the impairs performance

Are you willing………… ……to monitor your own emotions and be an excellent role model? ……help support your students in helping them monitor their own? ……be part of teaching the WHOLE child; emotions and all?