EI Education

EI Education

1. CONCEPTUALIZATION

   • Teaching emotional skills
   • Improving emotional intelligence

2. HISTORY

   • Five precursors
     • Mental hygiene movement
     • The character education movement
     • Carl Roger's counseling model
     • The psychological education movement
     • Conceptualization of emotional education (Albert Ellis)
   • Waves
     • The concept of EE suggested by Ellis: promoting emotional growth
     • Goleman's book: emotional curriculum, namely, EE initiatives fo promoting SEL and EI

3. DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF EE INTERVENTIONS

   • Active ingredients (why): Regulation (what) & DAPHne (how)
     • Activities based on which aspects of AEI and/or TEI are looking to change.. Practices form the acronym SAFE (Sequenced-Active- Focused-Explicit)
     • DAPHne: Discussions in the classroom, case Analyses, social Playing and Homework exercises. Include four pedagogical practicesthat should enhance Effectiveness
   • Decalogue of recommendations
     • 1) Solid concept framework, previous research, making explicit model of emotional. 2) Specify the learning goals of the program in evaluable terms 3) Make coordinated efforts that involve the entire eductaional community 4) The support of he school- community 5) Systematic implementation over several years 6) Use active and participative teaching-learning techniques. 7) Offer opportunities to practice all facets of EI 8) Including trainning and advisory plans 9) A program evaluation 10) Rigoroso quasi-experimental desings
   • Recommendations for school-wide EE
     • Six key activities
       • 1) A shared vison for EE is established among all stakeholders within a school
       • 2) The needs and avaliable resources for school-wide EE implemented are assessed
       • 3) Professional learning in EE instruction
       • 4) Evidence-based EE programming
       • 5) EE is integrated into practices at school
       • 6) Continuos improvement
   • A brief protocol for evaluation of EE programs
   • New steps forward
     • Discovering active ingredients
     • Exploring evaluations
     • Different and multi-level analyses
     • Biological impact