
EMOTIONAL COMPETENCES. Developing Emotional Intelligence in teachers and students
ERASMUS K1 PROJECT
about the course
course description
Emotional and social development are key topics that nowadays, we can encounter in all sectors of our personal and professional lives. “Emotional competence” is defined as the functional capacity wherein a human can reach their goals after an emotion-eliciting encounter (The Development of Emotional Competence.Carolyn Saarni. The Guilford Press, NYC, 1999). Dr. Saarni defined emotion as a building block of self-efficacy. She described the use of emotions as a set of achieved skills which then lead to the development of emotional competence. Attainment of the skills within emotional competence is crucial to self-efficacy.
This training will analyze the different perspectives on the main topic of “emotional competence” and lists emotional competence skills like the 8 defined by Dr Saarni and more recent ones:
- Awareness of one’s own emotions
- Ability to discern and understand other’s emotions
- Ability to use the vocabulary of emotion and expression
- Capacity for empathy involvement
- Ability to differentiate subjective emotional experience from external emotion expression
- Adaptive coping with aversive emotions and distressing circumstances
- Awareness of emotional communication within relationships
- Capacity for emotional self-efficacy.
Made as a training for professionals, teachers and educators. Usually our training on emotional competences starts from basic concepts which are quite obvious like “Emotional competence describes the ability a person has to express his or her own emotions with complete freedom.” But later explore more complex concepts “it is derived from emotional intelligence, which is the ability to identify emotions. Competence is the level of skill with which someone interacts constructively with other people”, developing a deeper common understanding focused on staff development. Educators train themselves in order to improve their personal and professional competencies and address their learning to “learners”.
Socio-emotional competence
Another individual aspect of emotional competence is social competence, which refers to empathy towards others. It encompasses the skills we need to be successful in a work atmosphere and in relationships. It is very important to use effective communication and to know how to manage conflicts.
Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education: why it matters and how to teach it.
Teaching young people skills such as active listening, self-awareness and empathy can equip them to succeed both academically and socially.
On one end this training helps educators discuss and learn more on emotions, touching most of the psychological literature; On the other end, it fosters the understanding of the need for a common teaching method based on the development of “emotional competencies” skills in learners/students. While Education has perhaps been slow to recognise the importance of such emotional capacities, recent work has sought to address this lacuna. Perhaps the best-known representation of this trend is the work on Multiple Intelligences (Gardner 1983; 1993) and on Emotional Intelligence (Goleman, 1996; Mayer et al. 2000, Bar-On, 2002).
In educating nowadays – in a wider European perspective – we know the EU guidelines on the new “Key competences for the lifelong learning” (Recommendation May 2018) and other guidelines based showing the need to develop other key aspects like:
- Active listening,
- Vocabulary for feelings,
- Developing self-awareness,
- Showing empathy being ‘with’ others,
- Managing emotions and self-regulation.
This training will help educators improve their teaching method, by reflecting and increasing their knowledge on the main topics, widening perspectives and broadening their work to new cooperations with colleagues and international educators.
LEARNING GOALS
- have a common understanding and awareness about Emotional competences and their development at school
- practice activities to develop self awareness and social competence
- discover tools and exercises useful for educational purposes
- improve communication skills
- learn to plan activities to develop emotional competence in adults and in students
Target Group
Any teacher at any educational level working in public or private school or educational institutions
program/Training Modules
INTRO/METHOD
Like all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant.
Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, businesses and citizens of our territory. Each local context has its own economy so it’s always useful, in training programs, to get in contact with concrete examples (experiential learning and real based learning).
We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program JUMP works, in European dimension and with an international spirit, at the local level and, according to the period of the training along the year and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions and add visits and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners including schools involved in European projects).
WEEK DAILY SCHEDULE
Saturday or Sunday:
Arrival of participants, transfer and welcome. Lodging and logistic support. Depending on the arrival time the participants are helped to have a meal or fulfill any other need.
Monday morning session: 9:30-12:30
Meeting in the lobby of Villa Gabriella International, welcome, first briefing by the organizers, presentation of the team, logistics information, gadgets distribution and start of the program. Walking down to the city center. Outdoor team building game “The Mission Impossible in Soverato by JUMP”. Getting to know the important places of the city, orientation points, traditions and cultural elements, getting in contact with local citizens.
12:30 end of the morning activity with a debriefing and logistic info
Free time for lunch or to enjoy the beach
Organized lift from the city center to the Villa.
Monday afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00
“Experience Calabria. A place to live, a place to love”. Presentation of JUMP and of the most important cultural elements of the region. Participants are asked to present themselves quickly and introduce their school in a creative or digital way using the internet and our screen.
Dinner organized for all the groups in a local restaurant.
Tuesday morning session: 9:30-12:30
Meeting on the terrace of Villa Gabriella.
First outdoor ice breaking game to get to know each other and create a good working climate.
Division in small groups and start of the indoors or outdoor sessions with the JUMP trainer.
Introduction to Module 1, EU policies and trends in education
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
Tuesday afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:30
1st excursion to develop cultural knowledge, strengthen team building and socialization among participants.
“Walking tour to the old village of Soverato Superiore, visit to the Church of “La Pietà” of Gagini and exploring the narrow streets. Interacting with local people.
Free evening to enjoy the city center
Wednesday morning session: 9:30-12:30
Module 2: Emotional competences. Recent theories and approaches
Module 3: Education/teaching and development of emotional competences.
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
Wednesday afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00
Module 4: Focus on Social competence and E.I.
Free evening to enjoy the city center or rest
Thursday morning session:9:30-12:30
Module 5: Developing learners skills to express feelings and emotions. Exercises: building relationships and communication.
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
Thursday afternoon is (usually) free time.
The staff will provide some suggestions for possible activities or excursions. For example to Catanzaro city, Capital of the region
Friday morning session: 09:30 – 11:00 (shorter morning lesson).
Module 6: Design my own learning and teaching pathway.
11:00 free time to visit the local market which is nice and folkloristic.
On Friday – at an agreed time – usually in the afternoon – it’s organized as an excursion in a beautiful and unique old village with a final dinner. The staff enjoys it and there’s a professional guide with us.
Depending on the season the excursion starts in the morning or in the afternoon. From July to September it’s usually in the afternoon-evening for the high heat.
Saturday morning session: 09:30 – 12:00
Closing the course: Evaluation and delivery of formal certificates/Europass and admin documents.
Saturday afternoon: Free time and last moments all the participants together for socialization.
Sunday:
Departure of participants.
The indicated times may suffer some changes depending on the season (earlier in the winter time and later in the summertime).
TRAINING MODULES
Module 1: EU policies and trends in education
Module 2: Emotional competences. Recent theories and approaches
Module 3: Education/teaching and development of emotional competences
Module 4: Focus on Social competence and E.I.
Module 5: Developing learners skills to express feelings and emotions. Exercises: building relationships and communication
Module 6: Design my own learning and teaching pathway
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this course, the participants will have
- improved their understanding and awareness about Emotional competences and their development at school
- practiced activities to develop self awareness and social competence
- discovered tools and exercises useful for educational purposes
- improved communication skills
- learnt to plan activities to develop emotional competence in adults and students
certification details
JUMP certifies or 36 hours for 6 days course (6*6) or more if extra hours per day are needed. Or 30 hours for a 5 days course (6*5).
The course can be also extended to a 2 weeks course with the options 10 days or 12 days course if asked and agreed, depending on the project of the sending organization.
10 days are excluded the weekend (5+5), 12 days are from Monday to Saturday morning (6+6).
At the end of the training, JUMP delivers a formal certificate of attendance and the team is at disposal to fill the Europass certification document according to the EU model template and other needed documents for reporting of the sending institution.
Certification details
Our courses are in line with the Erasmus+ Quality standards for courses under Key Action 1 (learning mobility of individuals)
Costs
The cost is fully covered by the Erasmus grant. Write to associazionejump@gmail.com to ask for information on costs and the services provided to plan your mobility project in Soverato with JUMP.
How to apply
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