Emotions
______________ is a set of skills associated with monitoring ones' own and others' emotions, and the ability to use emotions to guide ones' thinking and actions.
What is emotional intelligence?
a color-coded tool that provides a shared language for becoming aware of emotions and their impact on teaching and learning.
What is a mood meter?
Teachers can share stories about their own __________, to help embed emotional intelligence in a classroom routine.
What are feelings?
What color can you invite children to practice feeling when they are dancing to fast music?
What is yellow?
Recognizing and discussing emotions with children lays a foundation for their ____________?
What is Self-regulation?
How many axes does a mood meter have?
What is two axes?
Teachers can use _________ to introduce children to new vocabulary for expressing emotions and then relate the feelings in stories to classroom themes.
What is a read-aloud?
When using the mood meter and the five RULER skills together, what color of feelings should be integrated into creative arts when children are painting calmly and slowly while taking deep breaths and listening to soft music?
What is green?
What does developing emotional intelligence enable us to do?
What is managing emotions effectively, and avoid being derailed, for example, by a flash of anger?
Educators can embed mood meters in the classroom to promote ________?
What is Emotional intelligence?
What are the five RULER skills used to teach children?
What is teaching emotional intelligence?
What does the acronym for RULER stand for?
What is Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate?
What do emotions impact?
What is attention, memory, and learning; our ability to build relationships with others; and our physical and mental health?
What can be placed on a mood meter and moved around as the feelings of a child change through the story during a read-aloud.
What are pictures from books?
Educators can promote emotional intelligence through direct instruction by embedding the mood meter in __________?
What do carefully selected read-alouds help children expand?
What is knowledge of feelings?
What strategies that can help effectively regulate emotions?
What is taking deep breaths, engaging in private self-talk, reframing negative interactions, stepping back and allowing physical distance, seeking social support?
The two axes on a mood meter create 4 quadrants. What colors are the 4 quadrants and what do the colors represent?
What is red (unpleasant, higher energy), blue (unpleasant lower energy), green (pleasant, lower energy), yellow (pleasant, higher energy)?
After a teacher or a student discuss their personal stories, why should the teacher encourage the student to use the mood meter afterwards when talking about the story?
What is helping children think about how they are feeling, why, and how to appropriately express and regulate their feelings?
Mood meters help children understand that there are no good or bad feelings. There are some feelings that we like to have more than others, but it teaches children that ________________?
What is all feelings are okay?