Creating Emotionally Literate Classrooms (Maurer, Rivers, Elertson, Carpenter, 2011) is an introduction to social and emotional learning. The authors introduce the RULER approach, Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate. This curriculum gives the structure to teach emotional literacy. "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." (Aristotle as quoted in Creating Emotionally Literate Classrooms, Maurer, 2011, p69) The RULER approach builds social skills through emotional learning. Students that are emotionally literate will be more engage and successful n learning academics.
Regginal Washington is putting these tools into practice in our local community. Project AWARE (Attitude When Angry and Resolving Emotion issues) is creating safe classrooms and socially functional youth. When our children are taught skills to understand their emotions and do something about how they feel, they become empowered to make change. "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." (Franklin D. Roosevelt as quoted by Maurer, 2011, p.69)
For more information check out the video below or this http://www.ncpdf.org/pdf/steering/2014-10-17/4.0.projectaware.pdf.
Regginal Washington is putting these tools into practice in our local community. Project AWARE (Attitude When Angry and Resolving Emotion issues) is creating safe classrooms and socially functional youth. When our children are taught skills to understand their emotions and do something about how they feel, they become empowered to make change. "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." (Franklin D. Roosevelt as quoted by Maurer, 2011, p.69)
For more information check out the video below or this http://www.ncpdf.org/pdf/steering/2014-10-17/4.0.projectaware.pdf.