EMOTIONS AND SELF-REGULATION
"Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you."
- Aldous Huxley
INTRODUCTION
Emotion Recognition
This section will introduce the concepts of:
1. Understanding emotions and how they manifest in the body and brain
2. Identifying and describing a variety of emotions using a variety of tools
MAPPING OUT EMOTIONS
Body & Brain
Where do we feel emotions?
Let's get a better understanding of The Brain
LABELING EMOTIONS
- going beyond happy, sad and angry -
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Class Dojo has now included the section Mojo gets mindful. One of the episodes, Mojo Meets the Beast, introduces the idea that emotions can be overwhelmingly powerful and also offers the opportunity to practice identifying strong emotions through playing the "Name that Emotion" game.
TOOLS
Click to find out about the Mood Meter app, to help:
expand emotional vocabulary
provide insight into inner life
regulate feelings
remind you to check in with yourself
provides a log and a report over time
RESOURCES
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An Educator’s Guide to Promoting Students’ Mental Health and Well-being
MindUp curriculum:
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easy to implement lessons
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Activities that build awareness and self-regulation, to improve a child's social-emotional and cognitive abilities
Centre for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation- Ideas for Teaching Children about Emotions
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