One of our goals as educators is to create content and present it in ways that matter to students. Students pay attention to what they care about. To do this well, educators must attend to their own and their students’ emotions. When educators stand before students, they hope to hold their attention, engage them to participate, and provide content they can remember and can apply on a test and, perhaps, in life. While this was helpful to our primitive ancestors when they were hunting a bear, or running from a snake, these emotions do not serve us when we are sitting in a classroom trying to take in information.Įmotions also affect the teaching-learning process. When hijacked by intense emotions, especially unpleasant ones such as anger or despair, we are disengaged, distracted, and our thoughts go to the source of our fear or pain.
These emotional states support our cognitive functions and allow us to pay attention, assimilate information, and learn. When our basic needs are met and we feel safe and content, our brains have room for curiosity and motivation and are ready to learn. In other words, emotions can help us or hinder us. And, they open opportunities for us to succeed in school, at work, and beyond. They influence our ability to form and maintain healthy relationships they are integral to our physical and mental wellbeing.
RULER is premised on a fundamental insight from research: emotions influence attention, memory, and learning, decision-making, health, and creativity. The idea that emotions matter - and matter a great deal in school but also in everyday life - is at the core of research and programming at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. How can emotions impact students in school? Brackett’s work studies “the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision-making, relationship quality, and mental health the measurement of emotional intelligence best practices for teaching emotional intelligence and the influences of emotional intelligence training on children’s and adults’ effectiveness, health, creativity, and both school and workplace climate.” Consulting with Facebook, he has developed a number of products, including: social resolution tools to help adults and youth resolve online conflict, the bullying prevention hub to support educators, families, and teens, and inspirED, an open-source resource center to support high school students in leading positive change in their schools. We sat down to discuss the emotional component of learning with Marc Brackett, PhD, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University, and the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning.ĭr. Get Relevant Teaching Content and Updates Delivered Directly to Your Inbox.
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