Emotional Intelligence: A skill to succeed in the future

Emotional connectivity is a crucial component of effective eLearning design and development. It is essential to discuss students’ feelings as that helps increase self-confidence and motivation, promotes risk-taking, and facilitates creative expression, all of which are crucial factors of a successful eLearning experience.

Learning can be enhanced by generally addressing the students’ emotions.

How TO nurture emotional intelligence in your students:

• Self-awareness: 

It is the ability to define one’s feelings and thoughts correctly and understand how they affect our actions. This involves analysing our strengths objectively and where we need to improve, contributing to a grounded sense of trust and optimism.

Self-awareness can be rapidly stimulated in online learning processes by asking students, “Why?” and “How are you feeling?”. Simple questions like these help students understand, name, communicate and channel their feelings precisely at the point they occur.

• Self-Regulation:

It is the ability in different circumstances to control one’s thoughts and behaviours. Self-regulation requires understanding and handling stress, regulating urges, encouraging oneself, setting personal and academic goals, and working towards them.

Branching scenarios are one of the strategies you can use to explain the consequences of making one or another decision. Students may analyse the results of their actions in this way and learn if different decisions might have had a better impact.

• Motivation:

Children need motivation irrespective of remote learning or in-person classes. You can encourage students to participate in various modes, like coding, gamification, etc. This way, they will not lose engagement and will keep learning. You should also offer incentives to push your students to do better. Rewards and prizes always help!

• Empathy:

Taking the perspective of another person, especially if they are from a different context and culture, is a crucial ability and helps students handle an increasingly diverse world better.

Activities that promote empathy include:

1. Alternate roles: Set tasks that encourage students, either in a debate or in written assignments, to take an alternative approach. It is frustrating to be forced to debate or discuss a viewpoint in which we do not agree, but it can help develop a more open-minded view of the world.
2. Conflict skills: Team projects are a natural way to help students cultivate empathy, but it can be difficult for team members to be unable to accept new ideas or be immovable in their opinions. It is common to be “right” to negate or neglect others’ experiences and feelings and contribute to the conflict. Along with team assignments that will promote win-win situations, remember to delegate dispute resolution guides.

How can LEAD help build emotional intelligence in students?

These objectives, coupled with cultivating positive relationships, promote the overall development of a young mind.

With its unique attributes such as Digital Learning Content, Physical Reader & Workbooks, Learning activities, E-books, Regular assessments & Practices quizzes, LEAD has truly been an innovator in the education space.