The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement

Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Maurice J. Elias - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Harriett A. Arnold - University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement
January 2006 | 296 pages | Corwin
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Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch school-wide achievement soar!

"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots of emphasis on 'What can I do on Monday?'"
-David A. Squires, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

"I highlighted at least two dozen specific ideas that I will implement in my classroom next year."
-Steve Reifman, Teacher, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, CA

"Relevant and meaningful for today's educators."
-Beverly Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

"Useful, unique (not a crowded field at all!), practical, clearly written."
-Robert DiGiulio, Professor of Education, Johnson State College

This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) is a state-of-the-art collection of proven best practices from the field's best and brightest minds. Edited by educational leaders Maurice Elias and Harriett Arnold, this guide creates a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning into every classroom, with chapters by Daniel Goleman, Rachel Kessler, Marty Sleeper and Margot Strom, Janet Patti, Eliot Rosenbloom, Pam Robbins, Mark Greenberg, Sheldon Berman, Susan Wooley, Rose Reissman, Carol Cummings, and many others.

Key features cover:

  • Theory and context for EI, including brain development, multiple intelligences, service and citizenship, school-to-work, and health
  • Teacher preparation and professional development
  • 17 best-practice programs in action, relevant to grades PreK-12
  • An Application/Reflection Guide for note-taking, follow-up, contacts, and ideas for immediate implementation

This book is sure to be an essential resource for all teachers, counselors, and school administrators who want their school communities to educate healthier, more responsible, and more successful students.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Introduction: About This Book

Introduction: About This Book

Part I: THE FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTION OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING/EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, AND THE PROCESS OF LEARNING

  • 1. The Connection Between Academic and Social-Emotional Learning
  • 2. Brain Development and Social-Emotional Learning: An Introduction for Educators
  • 3. Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence: Finding Common Ground in the Classroom

Part II: HOW SEL/EI CREATES SYNERGY IN KEY CONTEXTS IN EDUCATION: SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP, SCHOOL-TO-WORK, HEALTH, TEACHER PREPARATION, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • 4. The Connection Between Character, Service, and Social-Emotional Learning:
  • 5. From School to Work: Social and Emotional Learning as the Vital Connection
  • 6. Physical Health, Social-Emotional Skills, and Academic Success are Inseparable
  • 7. Addressing Social-Emotional Education in Teacher Education
  • 8. Raising Your New Teacher's Emotional Intelligence: How Using Social-Emotional Competencies Can Make Your First Year of Teaching Less Stressful and More Successful
  • 9.The Professional Inquiry Kit: One Avenue for Exploring, Enhancing, and Applying Emotional Intelligence in Schools

Part III: EDUCATORS TELL THEIR STORIES: HOW TO BRING SEL/EI INTO CLASSROOMS

  • 10. I Can Problem Solve: An Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Approach for Children
  • 11. Teaching Preschool Children Coping Skills for Stress Management
  • 12. Morning Meeting: Teaching the Art of Caring Conversation
  • 13. Raising Healthy Children: School Intervention Strategies to Develop Prosocial Behaviors
  • 14. Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving: A Theoretically Sound, Evidence-Based Framework for SEL in the Classroom
  • 15. Inside Open Circle
  • 16. Teaching Emotional Literacy in Elementary School Classrooms: The PATHS Curriculum
  • 17. The Second-Step Program: Social-Emotional Skills for Violence Prevention
  • 18. Fostering Caring, Character, and Responsibility in Schools
  • 19. Teaching Life Skills in the Schools
  • 20. Read and Serve: Student-Centered Service Learning and Literacy
  • 21. Heroes to the Rescue: Reaching the Roots of Learning
  • 22. The “Best Practices in Prevention” Curriculum: Foundational Life Skills for General and Special Education
  • 23. Teenage Health Teaching Modules: Social-Emotional Learning in the Context of Health Education
  • 24. Facing History and Ourselves
  • 25. The “Senior Passage” Course

Epilogue

Epilogue

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch school-wide achievement soar!

"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots of emphasis on 'What can I do on Monday?'"
-David A. Squires, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

"I highlighted at least two dozen specific ideas that I will implement in my classroom next year."
-Steve Reifman, Teacher, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, CA

"Relevant and meaningful for today's educators."
-Beverly Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

"Useful, unique (not a crowded field at all!), practical, clearly written."
-Robert DiGiulio, Professor of Education, Johnson State College

This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) is a state-of-the-art collection of proven best practices from the field's best and brightest minds. Edited by educational leaders Maurice Elias and Harriett Arnold, this guide creates a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning into every classroom, with chapters by Daniel Goleman, Rachel Kessler, Marty Sleeper and Margot Strom, Janet Patti, Eliot Rosenbloom, Pam Robbins, Mark Greenberg, Sheldon Berman, Susan Wooley, Rose Reissman, Carol Cummings, and many others.

Key features cover:

  • Theory and context for EI, including brain development, multiple intelligences, service and citizenship, school-to-work, and health
  • Teacher preparation and professional development
  • 17 best-practice programs in action, relevant to grades PreK-12
  • An Application/Reflection Guide for note-taking, follow-up, contacts, and ideas for immediate implementation

This book is sure to be an essential resource for all teachers, counselors, and school administrators who want their school communities to educate healthier, more responsible, and more successful students.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Introduction: About This Book

Introduction: About This Book

Part I: THE FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTION OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING/EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, AND THE PROCESS OF LEARNING

  • 1. The Connection Between Academic and Social-Emotional Learning
  • 2. Brain Development and Social-Emotional Learning: An Introduction for Educators
  • 3. Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence: Finding Common Ground in the Classroom

Part II: HOW SEL/EI CREATES SYNERGY IN KEY CONTEXTS IN EDUCATION: SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP, SCHOOL-TO-WORK, HEALTH, TEACHER PREPARATION, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • 4. The Connection Between Character, Service, and Social-Emotional Learning:
  • 5. From School to Work: Social and Emotional Learning as the Vital Connection
  • 6. Physical Health, Social-Emotional Skills, and Academic Success are Inseparable
  • 7. Addressing Social-Emotional Education in Teacher Education
  • 8. Raising Your New Teacher's Emotional Intelligence: How Using Social-Emotional Competencies Can Make Your First Year of Teaching Less Stressful and More Successful
  • 9.The Professional Inquiry Kit: One Avenue for Exploring, Enhancing, and Applying Emotional Intelligence in Schools

Part III: EDUCATORS TELL THEIR STORIES: HOW TO BRING SEL/EI INTO CLASSROOMS

  • 10. I Can Problem Solve: An Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Approach for Children
  • 11. Teaching Preschool Children Coping Skills for Stress Management
  • 12. Morning Meeting: Teaching the Art of Caring Conversation
  • 13. Raising Healthy Children: School Intervention Strategies to Develop Prosocial Behaviors
  • 14. Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving: A Theoretically Sound, Evidence-Based Framework for SEL in the Classroom
  • 15. Inside Open Circle
  • 16. Teaching Emotional Literacy in Elementary School Classrooms: The PATHS Curriculum
  • 17. The Second-Step Program: Social-Emotional Skills for Violence Prevention
  • 18. Fostering Caring, Character, and Responsibility in Schools
  • 19. Teaching Life Skills in the Schools
  • 20. Read and Serve: Student-Centered Service Learning and Literacy
  • 21. Heroes to the Rescue: Reaching the Roots of Learning
  • 22. The “Best Practices in Prevention” Curriculum: Foundational Life Skills for General and Special Education
  • 23. Teenage Health Teaching Modules: Social-Emotional Learning in the Context of Health Education
  • 24. Facing History and Ourselves
  • 25. The “Senior Passage” Course

Epilogue

Epilogue

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom


January 2006 | 296 pages | Corwin

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Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch school-wide achievement soar!

"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots of emphasis on 'What can I do on Monday?'"
-David A. Squires, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

"I highlighted at least two dozen specific ideas that I will implement in my classroom next year."
-Steve Reifman, Teacher, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, CA

"Relevant and meaningful for today's educators."
-Beverly Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

"Useful, unique (not a crowded field at all!), practical, clearly written."
-Robert DiGiulio, Professor of Education, Johnson State College

This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) is a state-of-the-art collection of proven best practices from the field's best and brightest minds. Edited by educational leaders Maurice Elias and Harriett Arnold, this guide creates a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning into every classroom, with chapters by Daniel Goleman, Rachel Kessler, Marty Sleeper and Margot Strom, Janet Patti, Eliot Rosenbloom, Pam Robbins, Mark Greenberg, Sheldon Berman, Susan Wooley, Rose Reissman, Carol Cummings, and many others.

Key features cover:

  • Theory and context for EI, including brain development, multiple intelligences, service and citizenship, school-to-work, and health
  • Teacher preparation and professional development
  • 17 best-practice programs in action, relevant to grades PreK-12
  • An Application/Reflection Guide for note-taking, follow-up, contacts, and ideas for immediate implementation

This book is sure to be an essential resource for all teachers, counselors, and school administrators who want their school communities to educate healthier, more responsible, and more successful students.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction: About This Book
  • Part I: THE FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTION OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING/EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, AND THE PROCESS OF LEARNING
  • 1. The Connection Between Academic and Social-Emotional Learning
  • 2. Brain Development and Social-Emotional Learning: An Introduction for Educators
  • 3. Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence: Finding Common Ground in the Classroom
  • Part II: HOW SEL/EI CREATES SYNERGY IN KEY CONTEXTS IN EDUCATION: SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP, SCHOOL-TO-WORK, HEALTH, TEACHER PREPARATION, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • 4. The Connection Between Character, Service, and Social-Emotional Learning:
  • 5. From School to Work: Social and Emotional Learning as the Vital Connection
  • 6. Physical Health, Social-Emotional Skills, and Academic Success are Inseparable
  • 7. Addressing Social-Emotional Education in Teacher Education
  • 8. Raising Your New Teacher's Emotional Intelligence: How Using Social-Emotional Competencies Can Make Your First Year of Teaching Less Stressful and More Successful
  • 9.The Professional Inquiry Kit: One Avenue for Exploring, Enhancing, and Applying Emotional Intelligence in Schools
  • Part III: EDUCATORS TELL THEIR STORIES: HOW TO BRING SEL/EI INTO CLASSROOMS
  • 10. I Can Problem Solve: An Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Approach for Children
  • 11. Teaching Preschool Children Coping Skills for Stress Management
  • 12. Morning Meeting: Teaching the Art of Caring Conversation
  • 13. Raising Healthy Children: School Intervention Strategies to Develop Prosocial Behaviors
  • 14. Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving: A Theoretically Sound, Evidence-Based Framework for SEL in the Classroom
  • 15. Inside Open Circle
  • 16. Teaching Emotional Literacy in Elementary School Classrooms: The PATHS Curriculum
  • 17. The Second-Step Program: Social-Emotional Skills for Violence Prevention
  • 18. Fostering Caring, Character, and Responsibility in Schools
  • 19. Teaching Life Skills in the Schools
  • 20. Read and Serve: Student-Centered Service Learning and Literacy
  • 21. Heroes to the Rescue: Reaching the Roots of Learning
  • 22. The “Best Practices in Prevention” Curriculum: Foundational Life Skills for General and Special Education
  • 23. Teenage Health Teaching Modules: Social-Emotional Learning in the Context of Health Education
  • 24. Facing History and Ourselves
  • 25. The “Senior Passage” Course
  • Epilogue
  • Index

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"Offers a comprehensive overview of social-emotional learning and its impact on student achievement. Takes a more qualitative perspective, exploring the intangibles of classroom instruction with the underlying premise that students cannot learn best if social and emotional aspects of their thinking are ignored."
The School Administrator, December 2006, American Association of School Administrators
"The authors present a well-articulated approach to planning and conducting evaluations."
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"This is an essential resource for all teachers, counselors, and school administrators who want their school communities to educate healthier, more resposible, and more successful students."
SirReadalot.org, March Issue
"This book is the most thorough I’ve ever read on emotional intelligence....I found it to be an extremely helpful handbook in helping me to understand the importance of SEL and in considering programs for my school...The content is relevant and meaningful for today's educators."
Beverly Eidmann, Arvada Middle School, Arvada, CO
"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution... the book is written so as to be very well understood by teachers. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots of emphasis on 'What can I do on Monday?'"
David Squires, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, CT

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