Teaching Emotional Literacy: Enhancing pupil confidence, engagement, learning
- - Emotional literacy is the foundation of academic and personal learning.
- - Pupils need first to be listened to and then taught how to access and understand their emotions and those of those around them.
- - Adult and teenage brains are in very different places of development - as educators, we need always to be aware of these differences when we teach and guide pupils.
Schedule Information:
11:00am | Tuesday 19th March
Session Description
There’s a missing foundation in education, according to teacher and author Richard Evans – one of emotional literacy. Not just our pupils’ but ours too. And it’s this ability to understand ourselves, and those around us, which he believes underpins everything pupils and educators try to achieve at school. In this session, Richard will show you how emotional literacy can be taught in schools through a process of deep listening, empathy and joint problem-solving. He will share with you his ‘passport’ resource, describe the impact it’s had in his, and other educators’ practice, and show you how it can be tailored for your own school’s needs.