Being emotionally intelligent can help us regulate our emotions, make decisions, focus on priorities, or be more resilient <3
Activities for emotionally intelligent classrooms (since 1993) can be found here as well as accommodations and proposals for more inclusive classrooms.
MAY YOU HAVE A NICE DAY On Valentine’s Day we are all invited to show Love of any kind really, don’t you agree? After all, love is in the air! When I have done this activity in class I have [...]
Give thanks and eat pie Most students will have heard of Thanksgiving and most probably watched movies related to this celebration. They would know about eating turkey and the traditional [...]
Sing along! I am sharing today this song that was once part of the Christmas workshops prepared by both my group and myself. The song chosen for this workshop was Do they know it’s [...]
I find this is a nice and easy way to close up an activity. Like favourite end-of-term dynamics, lesson or anecdote. End-of-course positives and negatives, or proposals and suggestions. Also good [...]
Which one are you? This is an activity I experienced myself as a participant in Positive Discipline + Training Courses. The group dynamics had an impact on us participants when we [...]
With the update of the CEFR bringing new referential areas like mediation and the rise of a new emerging concept of what it is to be part of a team or what it is to get your ideas across, the [...]
someone in your family, someone you get on really well with, someone quite unusual, eccentric or annoying, someone you admire When it comes to family and friends students are always [...]
«Ei» will help you choose the best response to any given situation For a long time we have experienced how our thoughts and emotions may ask for different things and this has led us to [...]
My educational philosophy is based on mutual respect in the classroom. On a teacher-students basis and on a student-student basis as well. The teacher that acts as the person guiding the rest of [...]
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) test Being in the workplace every day is not always paradise, in fact, sometimes we can feel rather deflated to get to work in the morning. Motivation is key [...]