In the age of uncertainty… ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.’ Charles Darwin
‘EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE’ Jackie Beere
People will forget what you say, people will forget what you do but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Emotional Intelligence: adding real value to learning Objectives of the session: What does Emotional Intelligence look like in schools? To understand how to develop E.I. in the young people we teach and why we need to To consider the qualities and characteristics of emotionally intelligent school & classroom leadership An
outstanding, inspirational leader
SEAL (social and emotional aspects of learning) – ‘the most important thing to happen in education for 100 years’ Cambridge Assessment research found that EI was significant factor in value added outcomes.
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Neuroscience - the brain is an emotional organ
Cerebral cortex - value driven and can only process what the limbic system lets in Limbic system – gatekeeper - responds to what is emotionally meaningful/valued Reptilian brain – basic survival - all that is left to us under stress
Learning to learn
SEAL is the glue…. PERSONALISED LEARNING
Independent learning
PLTS (personal learning and thinking skills)
Social cohesion A NEW CURRICULUM TO ENGAGE LEARNERS
SEAL Emotionally Your vision, your ethos, intelligent your culture, your school leadership SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF LEARNING
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
Tracking and monitoring for intervention
The competency curriculum - PLTS
Collaborative learning
EVERY CHILD MATTERS Attendance/ inclusion
Behaviour for learning
EQ - a different kind of intelligence
Self management Self awareness Persistence/resilience Deferred gratification Mood control Stress management Empathy Optimism
Core skills- for students and staff
Self awareness Understanding and managing the emotions Motivation Social skills Empathy
Self portrait
Self assess Praise and advice Reflect and review
Expose yourself!
Self-disclosure feeds emotionally intelligent leadership
OPEN
– everyone knows
HIDDEN
– you know
BLIND –
others know
UNKNOWN (yet)
– no-one knows
You are your habits What are yours?
Staff, Students Leaders ..\Jackies laptop\EQ\10 habits for success.ppt
What is the impact?
What learning experiences will deliver these habits?
Teaching Curriculum Self assessment/peer assessment Collaborative? Facilitating/coaching Language for learning PLTs Co-designed? Integrate the Active and interactive Team working Strong social context? Student centred Group work – allow storming Cross curricular? IndependentReflection enquiry Creative focus Modular? Self management Challenging Tentative? (Community of Reflective learning Mistakes as learning experiences enquiry)
Effective participation Creative thinking
Vertical tutoring/teaching? Students talking
Confident Individuals Assessment for Learning
A competency curriculum that develops the PLTs:
Responsible Citizens
Teamworkers Effective participators Independent Enquirers, Reflective learners Self Managers Creative Thinkers
Effective Learners
Self-awareness
Empathy Managing feelings
SEAL
Motivation Social skills
The 21st century learning school – J Beere
© Jackie Beere 2009
A lesson that develop EQ...
Music, laughter, fun for mood enhancement Metacognition/reflection to be clear about targets Re-inforcement of great habits – explicitly Self reflection for self awareness Peer support to enhance empathy Challenge and frustration to enhance courage and practise deferred gratification Install a belief that it can happen
How does EQ create great teachers?
Self aware/self disciplined Takes feedback, takes responsibility Learns from mistakes – resilient Creative – open to new ideas Reflective Curious about learning Uses variety, humour, novelty shamelessly Persistent - knows they can cultivate intelligence Self belief - they have a mission! Easier to teach stuff than ways of thinking - Gardner
Students as leaders and independent learners
Co-designing the learning Self differentiating, setting their own success criteria Teaching and coaching each other Letting them take responsibility Working harder and talking more (on task) than you do Only babies need spoon feeding!
More metacognition
Do lots of DIRT Dedicated improvement and reflection time
The perfect Ofsted lesson? Progress is at least good for different groups of students and exemplary for some students. Engagement with content and excited by tasks Resilience and independence demonstrated by students Focus on the quality of learning Students demonstrate excellent concentration and are rarely off task even for extended periods without adult direction Effective assessment used AS learning in a variety of ways Challenging activities create a commitment to succeed in all aspects of school life and the students ability to extend and improve their learning are exceptional. Technology, other adults, prior learning and other resources contribute to the learning progress of students.
Our leaders can hijack our emotional state very easily .
Accountability fast-tracks to the emotional hard drive
How we are made to ‘feel’ by others is vital for health and happiness
Outstanding schools: The limbic part of the Being valued,system feeling - our emotional hard community, Emotions drive. are a sense of pride and belonging. The leader has contagious
the strongest impact on the emotional climate
Creating the emotional climate
Distributing power Trust Love Humour Transparency Taking responsibility (all)
What EQ qualities do leaders need?
Self Awareness Read emotions Create rapport Project positive emotions Challenge and empower What drives me? What holds me back? What makes me happy?
Create your timeline You started teaching
2010
Jackie Beere Crown house Publications
Teaching is the best way of learning....
‘The Primary Learner’s Toolkit’ ‘Creating the Learning School’ ‘The Perfect Ofsted Lesson’
Thank you for listening
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