Understanding Emotion
Understanding Emotion Skills
The links below provide details on key skills related to emotional awareness needed by conflict-competent students and teachers. Readers may be interested in these examples of illustrated emotions: View Emotions Cards
- Building Emotional Vocabulary
- Cultural Sensitivity To Emotions
- Emotional Other Awareness
- Emotional Self-Awareness
- Escalation De-Escalation Ladder
- ID Emotional Triggers
- ID Your Anger Style
- Questions to ID Feelings
- Questions to Work Through Conflict
- Self-Soothing and Calming
- Verbally Expressing Anger
Related Videos of Possible Interest
- Elementary Students Using Their Playground Peace Bridge
- Emotional Intelligence: An Overview
- Learn & Live: Resolving Conflict at O’Farrell Middle School
- NewsHour segment on the 4Rs Program at Brooklyn’s P.S. 24.
- Social Emotional Learning via The Heart Story (RCCP)
- Social and Emotional Learning After School
- What Makes a Good Peer Mediator?
- Workable Peace Teacher Guide Video
Related Catalog Resources
Below you'll find a randomized listing of up to 20 related items (we may have more...) drawn from our Resource Catalog.
| Resource Title | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Harmony Island STAR and APE Activity Handouts | This 6-page pdf provides colorful poster and handout examples excerpted from the Teacher's Guide for Harmony Island by Academic Edge, Inc. Harmony Island is a multimedia-enhanced conflict resolution curriculum designed to help learners broaden their understanding of conflicts and develop their conflict resolution skills. Students are introduced to...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Social emotional learning scenario | Web-based interactive resource which introduces social emotional learning which "refers to knowledge, habits, skills and ideals that are at the heart of a child's academic, personal, social, and civic development ... this type of learning enables individuals to recognize and manage emotions, develop caring and concern for others, make responsible...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| In the mix lesson plan: Managing anger | Web based lesson plan "designed to teach anger management and conflict resolution through the 'I-Message' communication technique and other group activities." Draws on materials provided by PBS's In the Mix program School Violence: Answers from the Inside. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning School Posters | The Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) materials from the UK Primary National Strategies curriculum provide seven posters for use across the school. They are available for download as pdfs (see attachments in site sidebar). The topics include the following: Feelings detective – understanding my feelings and understanding the...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL): Improving behaviour, improving learning | This fully articulated curriculum resource from the United Kingdom is available as a 90MB zip file containing the full kit or as individual pdfs. It aims to develop the underpinning qualities and skills that help promote positive behaviour and effective learning. It focuses on five social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Defensive communication | Powerpoint presentation introducing defensive communication vs. supportive communication and the climate each strategy can create. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Feelings Detective Posters | These two posters, designed for primary age students in the U.K., support children when trying to recognise their own feelings and the feelings of others. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Photocards of Feelings | Photocards of feelings developed for grades 7 and 8 in the U.K. These cards provide a stimulus for children to explore and develop their feelings vocabulary. Includes feelings key and sample discussion questions. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Ideas for using emotion cards: Citizenship education for young people with special needs | 5-page pdf document which presents a number of images of different emotional states. The cards can be used with particular lessons or to allow children to show how they feel about specific situations. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Promoting SEAL through circle time | 7-page PDF document promoting Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning through circle time for secondary students. "Circle time sessions provide a potential vehicle for the classroom delivery of the SEAL curriculum. Circle time is a time set aside each week when a whole class of young people and their teacher sit in a circle and explicitly engage...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Face work in conflict | Powerpoint presentation introducing the concept of face, or the social role identities that people adopt and want respected. The idea of "face saving" in conflict resolution is discussed. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Conflict resolution: Citizenship education for young people with special needs | 27-page PDF document which aims to, "develop positive models for dealing with conflict and to practise appropriate responses to deal with conflict." Includes examples of use of universal access symbols to increase retention and understanding when working with low literacy participants and students in special education classrooms. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Exploring emotional literacy through visual the arts: With embedded literacy and numeracy skills | 21-page PDF document created to "enable staff who are not Arts practitioners to carry out this [art based] work. They are designed as individual projects but can equally be extended into small group activities ... The aim is to encourage the young person to express visually emotions that are difficult to articulate verbally." Projects include:...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
