Emotional Intelligence

In recent years, research has validated what many of us have come to know through experience. While academic achievement is an important priority in our students' lives, emotional intelligence also plays an increasingly important role in helping our students to lead successful and productive lives. These skills include:

• personal and social awareness,
• self-regulation,
• responsible decision making,
• problem solving,
• relationship management.

These skills are not only important for academic performance and classroom behaviour, but also play a crucial role in social interactions, mental and physical health, and mediating risk throughout a student's life. Finally, these skills speak to the heart of the effective management of ourselves and others that is key to employability and advancement in today's economy.

In order to better prepare our students for the world they will be entering, the New Line Learning Federation has incorporated the concept of social and emotional learning as a foundational aspect of our schools. To this end, we have introduced the Emotional Literacy in the Classroom programme designed by researchers at Yale University in the United States and have integrated it into the curriculum for our students.

The programmes comprising Emotionally Literate Schools are anchored in the model of emotional literacy. This approach states that personal, social, and intellectual functioning improves by teaching children and adults how to recognise, understand, label, express, and regulate emotions. The goal of this programme is not only to enhance students' academic performance in our schools but to give students the skills they need to be successful in life.

For information about our range of Emotional Literacy training packages for adults and children please visit www.ei-nll.com or contact Clare Lloyd on 07725 761796 or email clare.lloyd@newlinelearning.com