Towards the Curriculum for Excellence:

Emotional Literacy

Dr Elizabeth Morris and

Irene Pandolfi

• “Each capacity in the Curriculum for Excellence needs the core competencies of emotional literacy in order for it to be optimised.

We need to foster, nurture and facilitate emotional understanding, self-regulation, empathy, resilience, respect and strong relational skills in order to ensure future citizens who are effective, involved, successful, positive, confident and responsible.” Dr Elizabeth Morris 2006

Emotional Intelligence

• An intelligent use of emotions?

• Emotions as a form of intelligence?

Where has it come from

• Brain research• Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)• Educational research• Psychotherapy and psychiatric research• Social and cognitive psychology • Social and cultural shifts

‘Everyday’ Definition of Emotional Intelligence

Recognising, understanding andappropriately expressing and handlingemotional states in ourselves and other

people.SEL 2001

I know what I feel.I can say what I feel.

I am learning how to handle my feelings.

I know how they feel.I can say how they feel.

I am learning to handle their feelings.

Emotional LiteracyDefinition for a 7 year old

Terminology

• “Emotional Intelligence”• “Emotional Literacy”• “Social and Emotional Learning”• “Emotional and Social well being”• “Emotional & Social Competence”• “Social and Emotional Behavioural

Skills”

Model framework for Emotional Literacy

Intrapersonal intelligence

Interpersonal intelligence

Self-awareness Other awareness

Self-management Relationship management

Translated into Educational issues……. Academic Standards

Behaviour and Discipline(motivation/attention)

Health PromotionPSHESpiritual, Moral, Social, and Cultural DevelopmentEqual OpportunitesCitizenshipSocial InclusionCrime and Disorder

4 Steps to Successful Implementation

• Do a Readiness audit• Staff and leadership development • Appoint a coordinator• Use an emotional literacy curriculum

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• Operating under the theory that having emotionally literate and emotionally resilient staff working with children will be the easiest way to foster its development in the children and young people of the community the Transforming Relationships programme has developed and grown into a powerful method for developing inner strengths and all the 4 capacities.

Core team training

• Emotional literacy• Learned Optimism• Motivated

Classroom• Developing Brain• Accreditation to use

EI profiles

CPD Directory

• Leading and learning with Emotional Literacy for HT’s

• Motivated Classroom

• Self esteem development

• Learned Optimism…

Successful LearnersWith:•Enthusiasm and motivation for learning •Determination to reach high standards of achievement •Openness to new thinking and ideas

and able to:•Use literacy, communication and numeracy skills •Use technology for learning •Think creatively and independently •Learn independently and as part of a group •Make reasoned evaluations •Link and apply different kinds of learning in new situations.

With:•Self-respect•A sense of physical, mental and emotional well-being•Secure values and beliefs •Ambition

and able to:•Relate to others and manage themselves •Pursue a healthy and active lifestyle •Be self-aware•Develop and communicate their own beliefs and viewof the world

•Live as independently as they can •Assess risk and make informed decisions •Achieve success in different areas of activity.

Confident Individuals

Responsible CitizensWith:•Respect for others •Commitment to participate responsibly in political, economic,

social and cultural life

and able to:•Develop knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland's place in it

•Understand different beliefs and cultures•Make informed choices and decisions•Evaluate environmental, scientific and technological issues •Develop informed, ethical views of complex issues.

Effective ContributorsWith:•An enterprising attitude •Resilience•Self-reliance

and able to:•Communicate in different ways and in different settings •Work in partnership and in teams•Take the initiative and lead•Apply critical thinking in new contexts •Create and develop •Solve problems.

Recommended reading and research

• Developing Emotionally Literate staff –Elizabeth Morris and Julie Casey

• Developing an Emotionally Literate School – Katherine Weare

• www.schoolofemotional-literacy.com• www.casel.org• www.csee.org• www.dfes.gov.uk

Recommended websites

• http://www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk/• http://www.headsupscotland.com/• http://www.youngminds.org.uk/• http://www.penumbra.org.uk/