EF/SEL Malapropisms
Goal-Directed Predominance
What is Goal-Directed Persistence
The ability to use one's time effectively and productively.
What is Time Management?
Self-Sufficiency/Dependence
What is Independence/Self-advocacy?
This three-word phrase denotes the planning and prioritizing method that prioritizes doing the most difficult or unpleasant tasks first.
What is Eat The Frog?
Kendra always sits down on the first Friday of every month to create a budget for the month, taking into account her expenses from the past month.
What is Planning/Prioritizing?
Suspended Attention
What is Sustained Attention?
Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes; thinking about one's thinking.
What is Metacognition?
Kindness/Cruelty
What is Compassion?
This method to aid with working memory is characterized by creating rhymes, songs, poems, or acronyms to commit lists to memory. These help with recalling information by creating associations, using patterns, or linking new data with familiar concepts.
What is Mnemonics?
Jared is working as a cashier at a restaurant when a customer comes up to complain about receiving the order. The customer becomes exceptionally angry and begins to raise their voice and call Jared names. Jared quietly takes a deep breath, apologizes for the mix-up, and steps away to get his manager.
What is Emotional Control?
Dress Tolerance
What is Stress Tolerance?
The action of sorting or putting things into a pattern or system.
What is Organization?
Fluid-thinking/Stubbornness
What is Flexibility?
This time-management technique is characterized by using a timer to section off 25-minute periods of work/productivity, followed by a 5-minute period of rest. Additionally, it is named after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that its creator, Francesco Cirillo, used when he developed this technique in the 1980s.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
Larry, Sarah, and Ken are given a group presentation. They decide that Ken will do the research, Larry will put together the slide show, and Sarah will present to the class. However, the day after they decided that, Sarah learned that she would be out of town the day of the presentation, and asked Larry if she could switch jobs with him. Even though Larry doesn't like public speaking, he empathizes with Sarah and agrees to switch jobs.
What is Flexibility?
Elf-Management
What is Self-Management?
The ability to understand and share another's feelings.
What is Empathy?
Self-Control/Impulsiveness
What is Response Inhibition?
This planning and prioritizing method is named after the 34th President of the United States and is characterized by sorting tasks by their urgency and importance.
What is the Eisenhower Matrix/Method?
Jenna wants to learn how to sew clothes. She has set a goal to make one jacket and one pair of pants for her mom's birthday in three months. She has a photo album dedicated to tracking the progress of the project.
What is Goal-Directed Persistence?
Journeying
What is Journaling?
The ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.
What is Social Awareness?
Sequencing/Disarranging
What is Prioritizing?
This breathing technique is characterized by breathing in to the count of four, holding for a count of four, exhaling for a count of four, and resting for a count of four. It is often used to reduce stress, improve focus, as well as aid with high blood pressure and sleep.
What is the Square Breathing Technique?
John is taking a biology class and comes across a question about the taxonomic hierarchy. He remembers the phrase he used when studying for the test, "King Philip Came Over For Good Soup", and was able to answer the question correctly.
What is Working Memory?