Emotional Intelligence:Assertiveness and the primary school curriculum Part 1

The next competency connected with being emotionally intelligent is Assertiveness. This is the third of the five intrapersonal realms, we have covered self actualisation and emotional self awareness already. you will be … Read on…

Emotional Self-awareness and the primary school curriculum Part 3

You may have glanced at the diagram accompanying these sets of articles on emotional self awareness.

Take a good look now at the diagram that opens these articles, it has been … Read on…

Emotional Self awareness and the primary school curriculum

In my last post on emotional self awareness, I defined what it means to be emotionally self aware. It may seem a simple defintion but there is a lot more to this … Read on…

In my first set of posts, I introduced the concept of emotional intelligence(EI) and how it relates to teachers and primary school teachers. I discussed self actualisation, one of the fifteen EI competencies according to Reuven Bar-On’s scientific research. … Read on…

Self actualisation, the SPHE curriculum and learning

I have defined what emotional intelligence is and why it is so important for us. I have focused in on the first competency of the EI framework, self-actualisation.

We have noted Maslow’s theory of motivation … Read on…

Self actualisation and the SPHE primary curriculum

“Social, personal and health education provides particular opportunities to foster the personal development, health and well-being of the child and to help him/her to create and maintain supportive relationships and become an active … Read on…

Self actualisation for the classroom and the teacher

Emotional Intelligence

You most certainly have heard of emotional and social intelligence. You may have read Daniel Goleman’s book on the subject.

However, back in the 1980s, a psychologist called Reuven Bar-On began … Read on…

In part 1, I gave a brief summary of what emotional intelligence and how it has developed along the way.

I’d like to look at the link between school leadership and emotional intelligence. I was forwarded on an article on … Read on…

In the last year, school principals have been put under unrelenting pressure on top of their own position in their school. A raft of circulars, changes and cuts have hit the primary and secondary school sector and I can sense … Read on…

I had the opportunity at the recent IPPN conference to attend 2 workshops, I immediately chose the Karen Belshaw Stress management as I have heard amzing things about her and it would be really expensive if I were to fork … Read on…