The Institute for Emotional Intelligence invites all TCCTA members to participate in a one-day certification forum on developing emotionally intelligent students, employees, and organizations, Thursday, March 4, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Westin Galleria Hotel.
Established in 2004, the annual Institute for Emotional Intelligence provides opportunities for educators, researchers, practitioners, and leaders to share research and practical applications in emotional intelligence (EI) for primary-secondary education, higher education, and business, government, or organizational settings. This one day pre-conference EI Certification opportunity is also offered to study the Education and Transformational Theory of EI with its authors, Dr. Darwin Nelson and Dr. Gary Low.
Below are more details about the seminar, provided by the presenters. For more specifics, please email Gary Low at gary@eilearningsys.com.TCCTA EI Workshop
This life skills development seminar will introduce a practical and self-directed learning program for achieving personal, academic, and career excellence. The seminar is built on the educational and transformative theory of Emotional Intelligence (EI) that has been researched and developed by Darwin Nelson and Gary Low since 1977. The positive assessment and emotional learning systems taught in the seminar are practical and self-directed learning processes that can be applied daily in living and working to improve achievement and well being.
The learning climate of the seminar is positive, person-centered, and interactive. Participants will complete a positive assessment of emotional intelligence skills to explore, identify, understand, learn, and apply their current skill strengths in the areas of self-esteem, stress management, assertion, time management, commitment ethic, decision making, interpersonal comfort, leadership, goal achievement, empathy, and change orientation. A daily process of structured reflective thinking will be introduced to apply and enhance these skills through the processes of constructive thinking, creative problem solving, and personal goal setting.
ADULT LEARNING AND EI CONNECTIONS FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
In our model, we see the scholarship of teaching and learning as consistent with research findings in adult neuroscience and interrelated with emotional intelligence. Adult learners are faced everyday with challenges to be positive, healthy, and lifelong learners. Learning occurs best with intentionality and focused on developing and applying EI skills, behaviors, and attitudes. The EI-centric philosophy and practice of teaching include the use of EI skills for cognitive and emotional learning.
Positive contributions of the emotional mind (system) can be achieved through the connections of adult learning and EI. It is important to remember and intentionally construct learning strategies to use emotion to enhance learning. Add more research-derived and ‘best practices’ learning strategies from your own experience and reflections of teaching to the following:
1. Affective attunement tends to alleviate fear. Relationship focused and EI-centric teaching actively attempts to create a learning environment so that fear is minimized.
2. Curiosity leads to discovery and pleasure. The ESAP and Emotional Learning System provide a positive assessment and learning model to discover, identify strengths and counter-productive tendencies, understand and integrate new learning, develop EI skills, and apply/model EI skills and behaviors as much as possible to enhance personal success.
3. Brain learns best in context of trust and care with a focus on personal excellence. Without trust and a sense of purpose based on personal meaning and value, teaching and learning tend to become externally driven, mechanical, and impersonal.
4. Emotional safety is important for learners to feel free enough to take risks, make mistakes, and learn from experience.
5. Experiential learning is a key to meaningful learning and development. Linking the new with the old is key for association and for the learner to integrate new cognitive and emotional knowledge.
6. An essential aspect of learning is to learn from experience. Experiential learning enables students to make relevant decisions based on personal meaning and values.
7. Emotional learning is not the same as cognitive learning. The Emotional Learning System provides a research-derived process for gaining the positive contributions of the Emotional Mind.
8. The experiential system is the lead system for healthy change, growth, and development. Managing life transitions and change in learning and life require EI skills and behaviors as most changes are personally meaningful and important. Emotions provide valuable information when experiencing change, education, and life.
9. EI skills are understood best as intentional and wise behaviors engendered by reflective and constructive thinking, creative problem solving, and action goal setting. ESAP and EI AWAKE Journal provide a means to explore, learn, and develop self in personally meaningful ways.
10. Learning and practicing EI skills, behaviors, and attitudes are essential for excellence in learning, teaching, leadership and everyday life.
11. Intelligent Self Direction is a behavioral reflection of emotional learning and effective self management. Academic success planning using both rational and emotional learning systems are important for academic and career excellence.
12. Emotional System is the key for effective learning and meaningful personal, career, and life change and transitions. The Emotional Learning System provides an integrated process for learning EI skills and gaining positive contributions of the Emotional Mind.
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