This weeks blog is about assessing young children. I have decided to research the emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence has been described as the ability to perceive and express emotions to understand and use them, also foster personal growth through controlling emotions. (Salovey, Bedell, Detueler and Mayer, 2000,). Through social intelligence you should be able to perceive, appraise and express emotions. Access and generate feelings when they facilitate understanding. Understand affect-laden information and make use of emotional knowledge. Regulate emotions to show intellectual growth and well being. Emotional intelligence affects performance, physical health, mental health and relationships. I feel teaching a child emotional intelligence will be the responsibility of the parents as well as the teacher assisting in the assessing.
South Africa
In South Africa the government there has begun what is called an "Action Plan to 2014: Towards the Realization of Schooling" it is the government's newest strategy for turning around education in that country. They have created a new curriculum which its main focus is literacy and numeracy. The program Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) will provide particular guidelines to streamline what is taught in schools the goal being to close the divide between well resourced and poor schools. They are also going to use standardized assessments of grades, third, sixth, and ninth to better track its progress, placing an emphasis on early child development.
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Hello Jennifer
ReplyDeleteEmotional intelligence is the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. Emotions are an integral part of a teacher’s job and have an impact on teacher effectiveness, behavior, cognition, and motivation as well as on children’s behavior. Emotional intelligence focuses on the aspects of intelligence that govern self-knowledge and social adaptation. The ability to express and control our own emotions is important, but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Some educators feel that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened while others claim it is an inborn characteristic. I think that intelligence is an ability and can only be measured by having a person answer questions and evaluating the correctness of those answers.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI agree that emotional intelligence should be the main focus for the parent, but some aspects can be taught by the teacher as well since most of the child's time will be spent in the classroom. Some levels of emotional control will have to be addressed at some point, so I believe that the teachers will have some contribution in that as well.