Quiz: What's Your Emotional Intelligence? The questions in this brief survey asked you about the types of behaviors you engage in that reflect the five key skills that contribute to a person's emotional intelligence -- also known as the RULER skills of recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotions. Your scores in these areas are reported as consider developing, competent, or highly skilled. Because this is a self-report instrument and not a performance assessment, this survey does not measure your actual ability. Instead, these scores will help you reflect on how these emotional abilities affect your teaching. Recognizing Emotions You reported that you might not pay much attention to your emotions or those of your students. It is possible that you may not attend to these signals. Understanding Emotions You reported not knowing how your emotions influence what you think about and how you act, or what causes you to feel different emotions. Labeling Emotions Expressing Emotions Regulating Emotions
Redefining Smart: Multiple Intelligences Edutopia reports on the resurgent relevance of Howard Gardner's ground-breaking theory, which changed the game for students and teachers. Credit: iStockphoto Editor's Note (2013): There is no scientific evidence, as of yet, that shows that people have specific, fixed learning styles or discrete intelligences, nor that students benefit when teachers target instruction to a specific learning style or intelligence. However, providing students with multiple ways to learn content has been shown to improve student learning (Hattie, 2011). Read more about the research on multiple intelligences and learning styles. In his landmark book Frames of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, published in 1983, Harvard University education professor Howard Gardner unveiled a theory of multiple intelligences that famously rejected the traditional and long-held view that aptitude consists solely of the ability to reason and understand complex ideas.
Learning Styles Quiz Results: Digging Deeper Learn more about each learning style: naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, visual-spatial, logical-mathematical, and verbal-linguistic. Editor's Note (2013): There is no scientific evidence, as of yet, that shows that people have specific, fixed learning styles or discrete intelligences, nor that students benefit when teachers target instruction to a specific learning style or intelligence. However, providing students with multiple ways to learn content has been shown to improve student learning (Hattie, 2011). Read more about the research on multiple intelligences and learning styles. Go back to the Learning Styles Quiz or check out some of our other quizzes and explore how you measure up. Credit: Ian Roberts Bodily-Kinesthetic Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is about thinking in movements and includes the ability to use movements for either self-expression or precision to achieve a goal. Sample activities: Back to Top Interpersonal Intrapersonal Musical
Emotional Intelligence Is the Missing Piece Social and emotional learning can help students successfully resolve conflict, communicate clearly, solve problems, and much more. Emotional Intelligence: An Overview Credit: Edutopia Whether it's in the boardroom or the classroom, individuals need the skills to communicate, work in teams, and let go of the personal and family issues that get in the way of working and learning. Such skills add up to what is known as emotional intelligence, and they are even more important as educators realize that these skills are critical to academic achievement. Emotionally intelligent individuals stand out. Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman popularized the term "emotional intelligence" in his landmark 1995 best-selling book of the same name. Students in Sarah Button’s fifth-grade class at P.S. 15 in Brooklyn learn how to defuse potentially volatile incidents. Self-Awareness and Empathy At Ben Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, social and emotional instruction is a top priority.
Professionalism - Hillsborough, NC Have you ever had a bad experience at a retail outlet, restaurant, or hotel? When someone has a bad experience you often hear the phrase, “That wasn’t very professional.” We expect to be treated in a professional and courteous manner when we are shopping, dining, or paying money for an overnight stay. Tax payers also expect professionalism from school staff. What does the term professionalism look like in education? Professionalism in its most basic definition is treating others the way you would like to be treated. A Professional Has Strong Content Knowledge When you observe a master teacher, it is evident if they are confident in the subject(s) they are teaching. A Professional Provides a Whole Child Approach to K-12 Schools While most parents and families want their children to have a teacher with strong content knowledge, they would be thrilled to have a teacher who possesses a deep understanding of the Whole Child tenants outlined by ASCD Whole Child. Whole Child Tenets U.S.