Most parents and teachers ask for help managing children’s challenging behavior. This makes sense. Out of control behavior disrupts both the classroom and home environment. Such behavior might compromising both learning and overall well-being. With this, adults spend a lot of time trying to manage the child. Instead, children need us to help them develop. Emotional Intelligence in Children doesn’t come naturally. It needs to be taught.
In this training, Laura invites participants to consider the crucial relationship between emotions and behavior. When a child has challenging behavior, there is always (not sometimes) one or more strong emotions behind the behavior. And yet adults tend to only address the form of the behavior, not the emotion(s).
Laura vividly demonstrates how to create emotional intelligence in children. When we teach children how to identify, understand, and express their emotions, they are better able to manage them. The result? Less challenging behavior!
Emotional Intelligence in Children made simple
This training prepares adults to teach the skills related to emotional intelligence from a brain perspective. By exploring the brain reasons for strong emotions, participants will update their understanding of how to embed a steady “diet” of emotional intelligence training into their daily routines.
When challenges arise, adults tend to focus on stopping the form of behavior, i.e., removing a child from an activity when he hits another child. In this training, participants will learn how to consider the emotions behind the behavior instead as a first step toward engaging the child in learning “what to do instead.” When strong emotions arise, children often act out their feelings with behavior, not words. But the form of the behavior doesn’t tell you what is happening. To find that out, we need to consider the child’s perspective. But how? Partly, through understanding the human brain.
What else might be happening?
Participants will engage in shared reflection throughout this training to strengthen their ability to understand the child’s perspective. Attuning to their interior landscape. Without this observation and assessment phase, teachers miss an opportunity to fine tune their prevention, promotion, and intervention teaching methods to include ongoing efforts to promote emotional literacy and emotion regulation skills.
This training is an opportunity for educators to update their understanding about the brain reasons for behavior; namely, how emotions drive behavior and ways to teach children the emotional intelligence skills they will need throughout their lives.
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