This is a safe place where we will self reflect and discover the importance of emotional intelligence. Please read with an open mind and answer reflection questions.

• October 24^th (Thursday)-Prologue and Chapter 1=19 pages

• November 21^st (Thursday)-Chapter 2=26 pages

• December 12^th (Thursday)-Chapter 3=23 pages

• January 23^rd (Thursday)-Chapter 4&5=33 pages

• February 20^th (Thursday)-Chapter 6&7=35 pages

• March 28^Th (Friday)-Chapter 8=28 pages

• April 17^th (Thursday)-Chapter 9=23 pages

• May 22^nd (Thursday)-Chapter 10=29 pages

• June 5^th (Thursday)-Chapter 11=20 pages

What steps can you take to prioritize emotional intelligence in your classroom daily?

How does the mood meter help in recognizing emotions?

How do cultural, personality, and contextual factors influence your ability to read emotions accurately?

Please pick two emotional words from the same quadrant and give their definition.

An emotional outburst signals that something is going on, but it does not tell us what is the problem.

What questions can we ask children to help them better understand emotions?

Do you think labeling emotions can change your perspective? Why or why not?

Permission to Feel

Brene Brown video:

Labeling emotions can definitely change my perspective, I can choose to feel and experience emotion in a more positive way instead of a negative way.

Chapter 5

When a child is experiencing a outburst. questions I can ask are: Why? What's the feeling? Why now? Understanding emotions begins when we start to answer that question- Why do I feel this way?

Jealousy and Envy

Jealousy is a form of fear. For example, the fear of losing someone important to you especially to someone else.

Envy has to do with wanting something that some else has. Coveting something that's not ours.

Chapter 4 pg. 83

Cultural influences matter. We are more accurate at relaying emotions pf people from our own cultural.

People with different personalities can influence how we read emotions. Ex. People who are agreeable, of the "big five" personality traits, ten to perceive people who are displaying angry or hostile facial expression as being friendlier than them.

There are differences based on relationship. Ex. A colleague that I've worked with over 15 years is more reliably better to anyone to identifying when I'm bored.

There are differences based on context or setting. Ex. Our interoperating of someone's gritted teeth and clenched will be different if they are at a political rally or in a brawl at a bar.

Chapter 4

The mood meter is designed to chart every feeling a human being can experience and project it onto a graph.

Ch 4:

The mood meter helps in recognizing what area you fall in (pleasant and energy) if you track your mood daily you can check to see if you see a trend in your moods and maybe figure out why?

Culture, personality and other factors and influence the way we read emotions accurately in others because we don't all react the same way to certain situations. Some cultures tend to have view completely different than others and we are raised to react differently. Same goes to our personality one person can the thick skinned, work in a high sensory environment or deal with certain things while the other person is a complete opposite and will have different emotions to the same situation.

Ch 5:

content: in the state of peaceful happiness

chill: very relaxed or easy going.

Questions I might ask to help me understand a child's emotions outburst better are: What emotion are you feeling? (if they need help show them the chart) Did something bother you? Did something happen? Getting to the root of why am I feeling this way and then teaching them its ok to be upset but how we react is the issue.

Brene Brown Video:

Yes, labeling emotions can definitely change someone's perspective. Just like she said Anxiety is always thought of as negative but if we label our anxiety with other words such as pressured or stressed you could be better understood.

Labeling emotions is definitely incredibly important. We need to understand what emotion we are feeling so we are able to experience, feel it, and find a way to cope through the emotion whether it's negative or positive. It can change your perspective because then you're able to understand what you are feeling, manage it better, and then help others cope or find strategies that will help them through them as well.

Chapter 4:

The mood meter is a way for adults and children identify new vocabulary words to describe what they are feeling in the moment. It can be a way to compartmentalize visually and understand if the emotions they feel are less or more extreme based on types of words being used.

Culture, experience, and contextual factors play a major role in not only identifying emotions, but also how you handle the emotion you feel. Different cultures handle emotions in a very different way, none being the same. Everyone go through similar experiences, but no experience is the same. People live through and deal with trauma and the emotions that go with that in different ways. Understanding this can help you decide how to approach a situation. Contextual factors change based on culture and experiences of others, so those change how people react or handle their emotions in certain situations. Once we are able to understand this, then handling emotions or approaching situations can help us not only understand people around us but ourselves as well.

Chapter 5:

We can ask them what the problem is. We can show books or sing songs to help them understand emotions better. We can have authentic conversations from songs and books to help students understand what they are feeling to help with emotional outbursts.

Four Quadrants Vocabulary Definitions:

Fatigued is when you feel drained and exhausted.

Alienated is when you are being left out or isolated from a group.

• Can you tell me what happenned? , your face looks red, you are moving your arms in a way that is not safe, you are raising your voice, etc. Is that because you’re upset? Or frustrated? Talking about the physical reaction, and tie it to the emotion. Modeling, acting out a social problem, reading books. Practice the conflict resolution steps every day including the labeling of emotions.

• My culture, my experience as a mother and working with young children for over 20 years definitively has made an impact on my ability to read emotions. Eventhough, we never stop learning.

• Inspired .- Of extraordinary quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse.

• Apprehensive.- Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

How do you ensure that you are listening and being open, patient, and sympathetic when others express their emotions to you?