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…

Library Management Systems have been around for quite some time in schools but it’s only in the last year with the rise in mobile technologies and cloud-based intelligence, that they are becoming a very interesting concept in Irish schools. In … Read on…

There’s lots of talk of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in primary schools and there’s a number of schools using them. One of the most popular is called Edmodo and there’s some great advice on how it’s being used in Ireland … 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…

I’ve probably shown this on this blog before but it’s easily my favourite education cartoon. As well as being funny, the message of it is deadly serious and all teachers need to think about the way we are teaching. 21st … Read on…

There are lots of primary schools using Twitter these days. However, considering their size, Educate Together schools seem to have a high proportion of their schools on Twitter. Here are some examples of Educate Together schools on Twitter.

• Kildare Town

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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…

Until I became a teacher, the staff room seemed an exotic place. I remember visiting my old school when I was in college and got to see into this utopian room for the first time. It looked like a classroom. … 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 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…