EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE By Nik Peachey
LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE This lesson is based on an infographic about the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) and its role in our lives. In the lesson students will explore the differences between IQ and EI and develop an understanding of how they can improve their EI and how doing this can benefit them.
By Nik Peachey
LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE By Nik Peachey
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
INTRODUCTION This lesson is based on an infographic about the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) and its role in our lives. In the lesson students will explore the differences between IQ and EI and develop an understanding of how they can improve their EI and how doing this can benefit them. Aims: • To develop students’ understanding of EI and its importance. • To develop students’ abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools. • To develop students’ abilities to read and understand visual information. • To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information. • To develop students’ abilities to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually. • To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings.
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LESSON PLAN
Discussion task - EI vs IQ
Resources
• The aim of this task is to get students thinking about IQ and EI and what they represent.
• Printable PDF copies of the worksheets can be found at: http://goo.gl/kwpWXH • The infographic can be accessed at: https:// goo.gl/zpqB4f
Start the lesson by putting the students into pairs or groups and giving them the discussion questions. This should help to get the students thinking, talking and sharing their knowledge of the topic.
How to use this plan The materials in this plan can be used in different ways. The first four tasks can be used independently as a simple reading and discussion lesson. The final four tasks can be used selectively as follow up tasks or you can use all four tasks as an ongoing project over the course of a number of lessons. This lesson contains eight tasks: • A discussion task which gets students thinking about the differences between IQ and EI. • A reading task which develops students’ abilities to scan read text for specific information. • A reading task which encourages students to read for deeper comprehension and to check information. • A discussion task which gives students the opportunity to reflect on the information and apply it to their own lives. • An online research task which gets students to check the accuracy of the information they find. • An online research task which gets students to find out more about IQ and the origins of the test. • A social research task which gets students to create an online questionnaire to measure EI. • A writing task which gives students the opportunity to consolidate their learning in the form of a blog article.
Once they have finished talking you can do a brief plenary session with the whole group. You could ask the students to try to decide which they think is more important. Discussion task - EI vs IQ Ask and answer these questions. 1. What is IQ? 2. Do you know what your IQ is? 3. How is IQ measured? 4. What is emotional intelligence (EI)? 5. How do you think EI can be measured? 6. How important do you think EI is in the work place? 7. In what kinds of jobs do you think EI would be more important than IQ? 8. How do you think you could improve your EI?
Reading task - Understanding statistics • The aim of this task is to develop students’ abilities to scan read for specific facts and information. Give the students the reading task. Ask them to look at the statistics and try to find out what they refer to in the infographic. Once they have had some time to find the information, put them in pairs or small groups and ask them to compare their answers and share what they have discovered.
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Have a short plenary session and confirm and clarify their answers. Reading task - Understanding statistics Study the infographic. What do these statistics refer to? • 59% • 20% • 34% • 3 minutes
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MATERIALS These materials can be printed and photocopied for use in class. Discussion task - EI vs IQ Ask and answer these questions. 1. What is IQ? 2. Do you know what your IQ is? 3. How is IQ measured? 4. What is emotional intelligence (EI)? 5. How do you think EI can be measured? 6. How important do you think EI is in the work place? 7. In what kinds of jobs do you think EI would be more important than IQ? 8. How do you think you could improve your EI?
Reading task - Understanding statistics Study the infographic. What do these statistics refer to? • 59% • 20% • 34% • 3 minutes
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE By Nik Peachey
LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE This lesson is based on an infographic about the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) and its role in our lives. In the lesson students will explore the differences between IQ and EI and develop an understanding of how they can improve their EI and how doing this can benefit them.
By Nik Peachey
LESSONS IN DIGITAL LITERACY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE By Nik Peachey
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
INTRODUCTION This lesson is based on an infographic about the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) and its role in our lives. In the lesson students will explore the differences between IQ and EI and develop an understanding of how they can improve their EI and how doing this can benefit them. Aims: • To develop students’ understanding of EI and its importance. • To develop students’ abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools. • To develop students’ abilities to read and understand visual information. • To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information. • To develop students’ abilities to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually. • To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings.
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LESSON PLAN
Discussion task - EI vs IQ
Resources
• The aim of this task is to get students thinking about IQ and EI and what they represent.
• Printable PDF copies of the worksheets can be found at: http://goo.gl/kwpWXH • The infographic can be accessed at: https:// goo.gl/zpqB4f
Start the lesson by putting the students into pairs or groups and giving them the discussion questions. This should help to get the students thinking, talking and sharing their knowledge of the topic.
How to use this plan The materials in this plan can be used in different ways. The first four tasks can be used independently as a simple reading and discussion lesson. The final four tasks can be used selectively as follow up tasks or you can use all four tasks as an ongoing project over the course of a number of lessons. This lesson contains eight tasks: • A discussion task which gets students thinking about the differences between IQ and EI. • A reading task which develops students’ abilities to scan read text for specific information. • A reading task which encourages students to read for deeper comprehension and to check information. • A discussion task which gives students the opportunity to reflect on the information and apply it to their own lives. • An online research task which gets students to check the accuracy of the information they find. • An online research task which gets students to find out more about IQ and the origins of the test. • A social research task which gets students to create an online questionnaire to measure EI. • A writing task which gives students the opportunity to consolidate their learning in the form of a blog article.
Once they have finished talking you can do a brief plenary session with the whole group. You could ask the students to try to decide which they think is more important. Discussion task - EI vs IQ Ask and answer these questions. 1. What is IQ? 2. Do you know what your IQ is? 3. How is IQ measured? 4. What is emotional intelligence (EI)? 5. How do you think EI can be measured? 6. How important do you think EI is in the work place? 7. In what kinds of jobs do you think EI would be more important than IQ? 8. How do you think you could improve your EI?
Reading task - Understanding statistics • The aim of this task is to develop students’ abilities to scan read for specific facts and information. Give the students the reading task. Ask them to look at the statistics and try to find out what they refer to in the infographic. Once they have had some time to find the information, put them in pairs or small groups and ask them to compare their answers and share what they have discovered.
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Have a short plenary session and confirm and clarify their answers. Reading task - Understanding statistics Study the infographic. What do these statistics refer to? • 59% • 20% • 34% • 3 minutes
Sample copy - Pages removed.
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MATERIALS These materials can be printed and photocopied for use in class. Discussion task - EI vs IQ Ask and answer these questions. 1. What is IQ? 2. Do you know what your IQ is? 3. How is IQ measured? 4. What is emotional intelligence (EI)? 5. How do you think EI can be measured? 6. How important do you think EI is in the work place? 7. In what kinds of jobs do you think EI would be more important than IQ? 8. How do you think you could improve your EI?
Reading task - Understanding statistics Study the infographic. What do these statistics refer to? • 59% • 20% • 34% • 3 minutes
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