Emotional+&+Social+Intellgience+in+Schools

=Schooling the Emotions= Many schools are teaching courses or units in emotional/social literacy. Emotional/social literacy is based on such topics as:
 * impulse control
 * managing anger
 * sense of recognizing feelings
 * seeing one’s own strengths and weaknesses
 * building an emotional/social vocabulary
 * seeing the links between thoughts, feelings, and reactions
 * finding creative solutions to social predicaments
 * not letting rational thought be sabotaged by irrational emotions

Not only teach emotional/social literacy to students but to parents to understand and work with their children, teachers and administrators. ie. SOCS Situation, Options, Consequence, Solutions

The crucial first years in the school system will affect success later in the school years because of the affect on the self esteem.

Teachers/schools give children the caring community that they may not get anywhere.

Emotional/social literacy programs benefit learning by developing –

Emotional Self-awareness:
 * being able to recognize and name own emotions
 * better able to understand causes of feelings
 * recognize the difference between feelings and actions

Managing Emotions:
 * develop frustration and tolerance/anger management
 * fewer negative comments/fights
 * express anger appropriately
 * fewer class room suspensions/expulsions
 * less aggressive/destructive behavior
 * develop positive feelings about self, family and school