Download or read book The Effect of the Social Decision making Skills Curriculum on the Emotional Intelligence and Prosocial Skills of Primary Students grade 1 3 in Lebanon written by Zeina George Mouganie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's exposure to undesirable and confusing social messages from their soci ety, has led to an increase in violence and poor self- concept among children in schools (Doty, 2001). A large body of research is encouraging teaching children to solve problems and make decisions in interpersonal relations to avoid resort ing to antisocial behavior. The purpose of this research was to study the effect of the Social Decision- Making Skills Curriculum (SDMSC) on the emotional intelligence and the prosocial behaviors of primary students in Grades 1- 3, in a private sc hool in Lebanon. The students will be trained in social problem- solving and social decision- mak ing skills through the implementation of the SDMSC. It was hypothesized that the re will be a significant difference in emotional intelligence and prosocial skil ls, respectively, between students (Grades 1 ? 3), who have been trained in soci al decision- making and problem- solving skills using the SDMSC, and those who h ave not been trained in these skills. The participants for this study were a tot al number of 80 students (29 students in the experimental group and 51 students in the control group). The SDMSC will be implemented in classrooms to students i n the experimental group. A rating scale from this curriculum was used to determ ine the students' strengths in social decision- making and social- problem- solving skills (Elias and Clabby, 1989). The subjects' emot ional intelligence was assessed using the Bar- On Emotional Inventory: Youth Ver sion and Parker, 2000a). Following a nine- week training in the Social Decision- Making (Bar-On) Skills Curriculum, ANCOVA results showed that there were signif icant differences in the emotional intelligence and prosocial skills of children in the experimental group, as compared to those in the control group.

Download or read book Social Decision making Skills written by Maurice J. Elias and published by Aspen Pub. This book was released on 1989 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an award-winning program for teaching self control, group participation, and social awareness skills while emphasizing critical thinking skills. it focuses on prevention programs, prepares students for transition to middle school, and includes assessment tools for tracking progress.

Download or read book Social Decision Making Social Problem Solving written by Maurice J. Elias and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Developed over three decades of implementation in a wide range of schools, this research-validated curriculum focuses on teaching students to be reflective, nonimpulsive, and responsible decision makers and problem solvers - while emphasizing essential literacy skills. It is ideal for classroom use and can be adapted for small group settings." "The program uses a variety of cooperative learning methods, including small-group brainstorming, problem solving, and role-playing activities. Students learn skills such as self-control, listening, respectful communication, giving and receiving help, and working cooperatively and fairly in groups. The manual includes numerous reproducible worksheets."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Effect of the Other 3Rs Program on the Social Skills of Lebanese Middle School Students written by Wafa Hussein Jawad and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the effect of an intervention, namely the 3Rs program, on the social skills of Lebanese middle school students.--The sample was 2 sections of a class of 7th grade students in a private school in Sidon, Lebanon. Over a period of six weeks, students in the experimental group (n=21) were exposed to selected activities from the Other 3Rs program, whereas students in the control group (n=20) were doing reading exercises.--A behavior checklist and the BarOn EQ-i:YV inventory were used to measure certain social skills and certain character traits related to emotional intelligence. Separate analyses of variance were used to check for initial and post training differences between the two groups on each of the checklist and the BarOn inventory.--The results show a significant decrease in the average frequency of negative behaviors in the experimental group, but the results did not show any statistically significant change in the frequency of the positive behaviors nor in the scores on the BarOn inventory. The results were discussed and recommendations for further research were proposed.

Download or read book Social Decision Making Social Problem Solving written by Maurice J. Elias and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Developed over three decades of implementation in a wide range of schools, this research-validated curriculum focuses on teaching students to be reflective, nonimpulsive, and responsible decision makers and problem solvers - while emphasizing essential literacy skills. It is ideal for classroom use and can be adapted for small group settings." "The program uses a variety of cooperative learning methods, including small-group brainstorming, problem solving, and role-playing activities. Students learn skills such as self-control, listening, respectful communication, giving and receiving help, and working cooperatively and fairly in groups. The manual includes numerous reproducible worksheets."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Emotional Intelligence in Education written by Kateryna V. Keefer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights current knowledge, best practices, new opportunities, and difficult challenges associated with promoting emotional intelligence (EI) and social-emotional learning (SEL) in educational settings. The volume provides analyses of contemporary EI theories and measurement tools, common principles and barriers in effective EI and SEL programming, typical and atypical developmental considerations, and higher-level institutional and policy implications. It also addresses common critiques of the relevance of EI and discusses the need for greater awareness of sociocultural contexts in assessing and nurturing EI skills. Chapters provide examples of effective EI and SEL programs in pre-school, secondary school, and university contexts, and explore innovative applications of EI such as bullying prevention and athletic training. In addition, chapters explore the implications of EI in postsecondary, professional, and occupational settings, with topics ranging from college success and youth career readiness to EI training for future educators and organizational leaders. Topics featured in this book include: Ability and trait EI and their role in coping with stress, academic attainment, sports performance, and career readiness. Implications of preschoolers’ emotional competence for future success in the classroom. Understanding EI in individuals with exceptionalities. Applications of school-based EI and SEL programs in North America and Europe. Policy recommendations for social-emotional development in schools, colleges and universities. Developing emotional, social, and cognitive competencies in managers during an MBA program. Emotional intelligence training for teachers. Cross-cultural perspective on EI and emotions. Emotional Intelligence in Education is a must-have resource for researchers, professionals, and policymakers as well as graduate students across such disciplines as child and school psychology, social work, and education policy. Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License at link.springer.com

Download or read book Daniel Goleman Omnibus written by Daniel Goleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional Intelligence Does IQ define our destiny? Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that our emotions play a major role in thought, decision making and individual success. Self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, motivation, empathy and social deftness are all qualities that mark people who excel: whose relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace. With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us. Working with Emotional Intelligence Do you want to be more successful at work? Do you want to improve your chances of promotion? Do you want to get on better with your colleagues? Daniel Goleman draws on unparalleled access to business leaders around the world and the thorough research that is his trademark. He demonstrates that emotional intelligence at work matters twice as much as cognitive abilities such as IQ or technical expertise in this inspiring sequel.

Download or read book The Effect of Social Skills Intervention on the Emotional Intelligence of Children with Limited Social Skills written by Marni B. Betlow and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Decision Making Social Problem Solving SDM SPS Grades K 1 written by Linda Bruene Butler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on teaching students to be reflective, non-impulsive, and responsible decision makers and problem solvers - while emphasizing essential literacy skills. The programme uses cooperative learning methods, including small-group brainstorming, problem-solving, and role-playing activities. Students learn skills such as self-control, listening, respectful communication, giving and receiving help, and working cooperatively.

Download or read book Effectiveness of a Social Skills Curriculum on Preschool Prosocial Behavior and Emotion Recognition written by Laura Kuebel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preschool children in public school programs are expelled at three times the rate of their K-12 peers. Research demonstrates a decreased emphasis on social-emotional skill development in preschool, despite high incidences of problem behaviors. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a commercially available social skills curriculum on preschoolers' social-emotional development, specifically their pro-social behaviors and emotion recognition. Results showed that students who participated in the social skills curriculum increased prosocial skills and ability to visually recognize emotions in others. While statistical measures indicate that the intervention did not have a statistically significant impact on student emotion recognition and prosocial behavior, anecdotal reports from participating teachers indicated that the intervention was highly beneficial to participating students. Further, the curriculum had a high level of treatment acceptability by participants' teachers. Implications regarding social emotional curriculum and preschool students' prosocial skill and emotion recognition development are provided.

Download or read book The Effect of Teaching a Pro social Skills Curriculum on Student Behavior written by Paulette Nannos Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Manual of Activities for Enhancing Interpersonal and Cross cultural Skills Among Lebanese Elementary School Students written by Rihab Abdul Kader Sidani and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elementary school counselors are in an excellent position to implement intervent ion strategies that help children develop the types of cognitive, emotional, and social skills necessary for students to live productive and satisfying lives in a pluralistic and diverse society like the Lebanese society. One of the major d evelopmental challenges students will face involves learning to get along with i ndividuals who look, act, and think differently from themselves. They should lea rn to accept, respect and empathize with others regardless of their culture, gen der, religion and values. Consequently, students should learn interpersonal effe ctiveness skills and cross-cultural effectiveness skills. Empathy is considered a fundamental concept in enhancing interpersonal and cross -cultural skills. Empathy allows the students to understand the perspectives and feelings of others, to sense a violation of justice, to develop caring attitude s, and to better distinguish right from wrong. Empathy can be developed in eleme ntary students through story telling, role playing, images and photographs, and cooperative activities. Moreover, research suggests that empathy is not only imp ortant for students to get along with each other, but also for teachers who need to have this quality in order to model it to students. Consequently, the purpose of this project is to develop a manual of emotional- intelligence based activities for Grade 1, 2, and 3 and activities for teachers to promote interpersonal and cross-cultural effectiveness skills. In addition to the activities, the manual will include theoretical background that supports my objectives, rationale and purpose.

Download or read book Early Social Emotional Functioning and the School Context written by Rachel Abenavoli and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing consensus among researchers and practitioners that childrens ability to pay attention, regulate their emotions and behavior, and get along with others is crucial to their success in the classroom, particularly during the transition to school (Blair & Raver, 2015; Denham et al., 2010; Lin et al., 2003; Rimm-Kaufman et al., 2000). Although longitudinal associations between early social-emotional functioning and later behavioral and academic adjustment have been documented, how school-entry social-emotional functioning alters childrens developmental trajectories across the early school years is not well understood. It may be that initially higher-functioning children continue to develop at a faster rate than their peers across the school years, in line with the skill-begets-skill or cumulative advantage hypothesis (Heckman, 2008). Alternatively, initially lower-functioning children may show greater growth over time, as would be predicted by the catch-up hypothesis (Barnett, 2011). Moreover, these patterns of development may differ depending on the childs context, with initially higher-functioning children showing greater growth under certain conditions and/or initially lower-functioning children showing greater growth under other conditions.This dissertation examined the contributions of childrens early social-emotional functioning and the school context to their trajectories of behavior and achievement during elementary school. Using a rich longitudinal dataset from the Family Life Project, which followed children and families in rural and small town U.S. communities, this dissertation examined: (1) how school-entry inattention, prosocial behavior, and conduct problems predicted behavior and achievement in Grade 3 and rates of change from kindergarten to Grade 3; (2) how distal factors and proximal processes in the elementary school context predicted behavior and achievement during this time period, both concurrently and cumulatively; and (3) how aspects of the school context might moderate the effect of school-entry social-emotional functioning on childrens developmental trajectories.Results of multilevel growth models indicated that school-entry social-emotional functioning had lasting effects on behavior and achievement through Grade 3, but initially lower-functioning children narrowed the gap with their higher-functioning peers over time on some outcomes (i.e., trajectories of children with high and low initial social-emotional functioning converged over time). Experiences within the school context also contributed to childrens outcomes: High-quality teacher-student interactions and teachers own social-emotional competence predicted higher concurrent behavior and achievement, and there was some evidence that cumulative exposure to high-quality experiences uniquely contributed to outcomes. Finally, features of the school context generally did not moderate the effects of school-entry social-emotional functioning, suggesting that variation in the school context had a surprisingly minimal impact on rates of convergence or divergence in developmental trajectories of children who differed in school-entry social-emotional functioning. This dissertation adds to a growing body of work out of the Family Life Project investigating families, schools, and child development in high-poverty rural regions (e.g., Blair et al., 2016; Broekhuizen et al., 2016; Garrett-Peters et al., 2016; Sandilos et al., 2014; Vernon-Feagans et al., 2016). Fostering early social-emotional functioning and improving classroom experiences for children are two promising policy levers through which children may be supported as they progress through school.

Download or read book Seven Skills for School Success written by Pam Schiller and published by Gryphon House, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven skills every young child needs to be successful in school.

Download or read book World Development Report 1978 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first report deals with some of the major development issues confronting the developing countries and explores the relationship of the major trends in the international economy to them. It is designed to help clarify some of the linkages between the international economy and domestic strategies in the developing countries against the background of growing interdependence and increasing complexity in the world economy. It assesses the prospects for progress in accelerating growth and alleviating poverty, and identifies some of the major policy issues which will affect these prospects.

Download or read book Learning to Live Together written by Margaret Sinclair and published by United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents an attempt to interpret the aim of 'learning to live together' as a synthesis of many related goals, such as education for peace, human rights, citizenship and health-preserving behaviours. It focuses specifically on the skills, values, attitudes and concepts needed for learning to live together, rather than on 'knowledge' objectives. On the basis of a review of the literature and an examination of a number of cases from post-conflict and transition settings, this study proposes what appears to work in terms of helping students learn to become politely assertive rather than violent, to understand conflict and its prevention, to become mediators, to respect human rights, to become active and responsible members of their communities - as local, national and global citizens - to have balanced relationships with others and neither to coerce others nor be coerced, especially into risky health behaviours. While the focus is mainly on schools, the approach advocated is also applicable to non-formal education for youth and adults.

Download or read book Life Skills Education for Youth written by Joan DeJaeghere and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women’s and men’s lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and importance of life skills, and how they are taught. It looks at the synergies and differences between life skills educational programmes and the way in which they promote social and emotional learning, vocational/employment education, and health and sexuality education. Finally, it explores how life skills may be better incorporated into education and how such education can address structures and relations of power to help youth achieve desired future outcomes, and goals set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Life skills education has gained considerable attention by education policymakers, researchers and educators as being the sine qua non for later achievements in life. It is nearly ubiquitous in global and national education policies, including the SDGs, because life skills are regarded as essential for a diverse set of purposes: reducing poverty, achieving gender equality, promoting economic growth, addressing climate change, fostering peace and global citizenship, and creating sustainable and healthy communities. Yet, to achieve these broad goals, questions persist as to which life skills are important, who needs to learn them, how they can be taught, and how they are best measured. This book addresses these questions.