Student Performance
In today’s highly-evolved fast-paced society, interpersonal and communication skills are as important as intellectual abilities in achieving success. We are no longer being judged only by how smart we are but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.
Understanding and managing emotions does not happen naturally. Adults, adolescents and even children, cannot think clearly when emotionally upset. The reason is, as infants, our emotional brain develops before our thinking brain so we have emotional experiences long before we lean the words to explain our feelings.
Emotional intelligence is our capacity to recognize, understand and appropriately respond to our emotions. Developing emotional intelligence can help students with poor academic performance, lack of focus and/or concentration, hyperactivity, aggression, apathy and/or depression, body image disorders, and low self-esteem. For teachers and parents, emotional intelligence can make the difference between success and failure, whether in communicating with children and students or dealing with life in general.
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