EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE + GROUPWORK!

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Group work is a facilitator for the teacher's work, especially when working with a large class. What is really interesting about group work is that it is also a great opportunity for children to interact and get to know each other, by combining each one's abilities and knowledge.

Teachers must know how to address these opportunities towards an appropriate purpose without ignoring the social and emotional aspect, but instead using it in a positive way.


Here is a guide on group work that might help quite a lot in your classroom:


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Why is social and emotional learning important?

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In our educational reality, it is known that emotions are left aside in the school. School has turned into a place of intellectual instruction, where teachers and students have lost connection with other people's feelings beyond academic aspects.

It is important to keep in mind that teachers and students must get along during the teaching-learning process; this is the main reason why it is useful for both, teachers and parents, to go beyond the Math, Science or English class and their contents. The International Bureau of Education, from the International Academy of Education, defines Social-emotional skills, or "emotional intelligence", as "the set of abilities that allow students to work with others, learn effectively, and serve essential roles in their families, communities and places of work"

Due to new theories, such as constructivism, and different methodologies used in education throughout the last decades, group work has been promoted as extremely relevant for it improves an essential dimension of learning: working and interacting with others. This is mainly because a huge part of life itself has to do with personal connections. Therefore, how could this part of life be ignored when it comes to teaching? Daniel Goleman, author of the Book "Emotional Intelligence" is very clear about the importance of "Social and Emotional Learning"








The same way, the emotional aspect of the teaching profession has been left aside. Teachers have to deal with more demands than they used to in the past, plus, this changes have gone faster according to the society's needs and demands. Many teachers have to deal with the parental function as well, specially when teaching little children. So, how do teachers deal with the social and emotional aspects of their profession?

Here you have more information and very specific and useful tips to develop good relationships among teachers and students:

http://http//www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/taking-account-of-emotions-in-student-teacher-relationships-1734


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To begin with...

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First, emotional learning is not as complex as it sounds or seems to be. But, we assume people, particularly at home and in the school, do not discuss it very much. Moreover, most people do not know about it very much.


The purpose of this site is to provide hints about Social and Emotional Learning. The information in here is intended to help, not only students but also parents and teachers, understand its implications on children’s everyday life, in and out of the classroom.


We strongly believe that Emotional and Social Learning is essential when we are trying to make our teaching more effective. To be aware of the emotional and social context of our students is important. So it is for parents to be aware of how their children feel and face how they feel and how they interact with the rest. And finally it is also important that children can learn to express their feelings and to interact, in order to create self and social awareness.

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