Summary
Contents
Firmly supported by a wealth of research linking children’s mental and physical health to emotional well being, this new edition of the bestselling Dealing with Feeling provides teachers of children aged 5–8 with structured opportunities to develop their emotional literacy. In this second edition, Tina Rae emphasizes the development of empathy, tolerance, resilience, and motivation as well as an emotional vocabulary. The text helps teachers introduce students to a variety of techniques for managing more complex and uncomfortable feelings in a variety of situations. Solution-focused strategies are woven into: Worksheet tasks Self-reflection activitiesTake-home assignmentsPacked with teacher-friendly sessions, this book fulfills the requirements of the PSCHE curriculum and Healthy Schools agenda and also complements the SEAL curriculum (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning).
The Structure of the Lessons
The Structure of the Lessons
Each lesson is structured to a similar pattern as follows:
Activities Objectives
- Warm-up activity
- to help pupils develop empathy, turn-taking, tolerance and self-respect.
- Circle Talk
- to introduce and identify the feeling
- to help the pupils define the feeling for themselves.
- Story
- to help pupils recognise, understand and discuss the feeling as experienced by people in the story
- to encourage and further develop listening skills.
- Question Time
- to encourage reflection and understanding of consequences
- to encourage listening and turn-taking skills
- to increase pupils understanding and recognition of how their feelings and behaviours can impact upon others, i.e. empathy.
- Act it out!
- role-play to encourage pupils to recognise the emotions of others
- to encourage co-operation skills
- to generalise and reinforce the emotion in a ...