Teachers strive to provide every student with the skills they need to navigate their future. There is a sense of pride in watching former students become engaged and successful young adults once they leave school. Their success will depend, in large part, on their emotional intelligence. In other words, their ability to regulate emotions and recognize and respond to the emotions of others.
To help build these critical student skills, teachers need support from easy- to-lead lessons that help students build empathy, resilience and self-awareness. These lessons are most easily delivered from a strong social-emotional curriculum that are used in classrooms.
Regulating Own Emotions
Successful adults benefit from their ability to manage and regulate their emotions. Over time, these adults have learned skills and strategies that help them recognized difficult emotions like anger or hurt and process them in healthy ways instead of having outburst or shutting down.
Teaching students to become respectful people who can control of their emotions has an important place in every classroom and teaching efforts. These skills are taught effectively using a curriculum with professionally designed lessons for this purpose.
Respecting Others
Recognizing and responding appropriately to the emotions of others is another important component of achieving success involves. The social-emotional curriculum and lessons you use can help your students understand how others act around them. They can also help lead students to respond appropriately to others’ emotions, particularly in social settings.
