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Emotion: a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others: a state of feeling
Emotion Management: a person's attempt to regulate feelings, change them, and/or ensure that behavior is influenced by rational thought.
Optimism: Choosing to view a situation from a more positive perspective
Emotional Literacy: The ability to identify, label, expression and cope with emotions in self and others
Coping strategies: an action, a series of actions, or a thought process used in meeting a stressful or unpleasant situation or in modifying one’s reaction to such a situation; a conscious or direct approach to problems
LINKS
Committee for Children YouTube Channel
Videos for building SEL skills on a variety of topics.
Kimochis
The Kimochis® Educator’s Tool Kits are universal, school-based, social and emotional learning programs designed to give children the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to recognize and manage their emotions.
ACTIVITIES
Feeling Wheel
Teach students how to identify and label their emotions by first finding the primary, then refining their emotion to the secondary and tertiary definitions.
Get Project Ideas from InspirED
Get ideas for classroom and whole-school activities from Yale's Center for Emotional Intelligence program InspirED.
READING & RESEARCH
Self‐Regulation, School Engagement, and Teacher–Child Relationship Quality
Portilla, X.A., Ballard, P.J., Adler, N.E., Boyce, W.T. and Obradović, J. (2014), An Integrative View of School Functioning: Transactions Between Self‐Regulation, School Engagement, and Teacher–Child Relationship Quality. Child Dev, 85: 1915-1931. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12259
The RULER Approach by Yale
RULER is an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training
The Cultivating Emotional Balance training was sparked during a meeting between behavioral scientists, a neuroscientist, a monk, a philosopher, and the Dalai Lama in 2000, as a new approach to understanding our emotional lives.
ORGANIZATIONS
Committee for Children
A global nonprofit focusing on the safety and well-being of kids through social-emotional learning (SEL) to fulfill our vision of safe children thriving in a peaceful world.
Kimochis
The Kimochis® Pre-K, TK, and K Tool Kit and Grades 1-5 Tool Kit are the fastest, most effective classroom management tools available.
Edutopia
Social and emotional resources from the Edutopia foundation.
Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Free courses designed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to help school staff better manage their emotions and create supportive learning environments for students.