Understanding Your Students Emotional Language

By Yvonne Brooks

Students are very emotional and often attend classes with toxic emotions. Teachers who are not mindful about how their own emotions can affect their students will pay a heavier price emotionally in the long run.

Teachers are accountable, for filling up their students’ emotional bank accounts in the classroom. When students’ leave each classroom with an overdrawn emotional state of mind, it diminishes all chances for success throughout the day.

Students routinely receive values training from their parents and teachers. Teachers play a big role in the development of their students’ emotional intelligence. It will take proper tools and resources to apply healthy self-care emotionally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Yvonne Brooks
• Release date: Sep 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370896578

Yvonne Brooks

Yvonne Brooks has been an icon in the parenting world since 1990, empowering literally thousands of parents toward self-responsibility. Yvonne a certified parenting coach and the secret weapon for many parents with newborns right up to teenagers. Ms. Brooks has a strong track record with the k-12 education system. Yvonne brings parents, children and entrepreneurial experience to a refreshing level of excellence. Yvonne is the executive director of the Brooks & Brooks Foundation, motivational speaker and mastermind behind the Battlefield of a Parent's Mind Series. As a mentor to hundreds of parents and their children, Ms. Brooks has strive diligently to create innovated and synergistic online and offline programs that produce outstanding and successful results for parents and their children.

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR STUDENTS EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE

A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO CLASSROOM SUCCESS

Yvonne Brooks 

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Table of Contents

Section One:  Emotional Literacy

Section Two:  Reactive Teaching Skills

Section Three:  Responsive Teaching Skills

Worksheets

Resources

SECTION ONE

EMOTIONAL LITERACY

What is Emotional Literacy?

Emotional literacy is defined as the ability to express feelings with specific words, in three-word sentences. It is also the ability to understand, and articulate your personal feelings about people, situations and things.

Emotional literacy gives teachers the ability to listen and empathize with their students’ emotions. The ability to express your emotions to your students responsibly is essential for developing emotional literacy in the classroom.

Developing a plan for improving emotional literacy with your students will help to improve the teacher-student relationship. The ability to read your students’ emotional language enables teachers to interact effectively, making it easier for challenging emotional situations to be dealt with peacefully. 

The purpose for developing your emotional literacy is to position your students’ toward being able to identify and communicate their feelings in a healthy matter.  Both teacher and student should have a clear understanding of how they are feeling in order to have their emotional needs met. 

The capacity for students’ to perceive and express their feelings is a critical step for experiencing healthy relationships with themselves, their teachers, family, friends and others.  A student’s inability to express their feelings in