EI IN-BETWEEN & TEENS

Essential Question: How might

at risk youth define and
participate in developing social
emotional learning and
emotional intelligence?

EI and The
In-Between
Teaching EI to Teens
and Youth)

What are the stakes

for them, for you and for US if they
are not taught how to teach EQ?

One hundred NYCDOE freshman

By Eleventh Grade

By the end of twelfth grade

GET YOUR CREDITS!

Actually enter college

Earn a four-year college degree

There are a number of

obstacles that influence
teaching & learning EI

High poverty &

Hidden obstacles

Lack of resources
Disengaged students
High-stakes testing
Limited time to address curriculum

HOW?

GIVE TEENS CHOICE,

THEN GIVE THEM
VOICE
(Also a credo of Best
Practices GT Teaching)

GIVE TEENS CHOICE (Case menu),

THEN GIVE THEM VOICE
(Also a credo of Best Practices GT
Teaching)

SELF
AWARENESS

Feeling upset
about
someone in 1st
period

Made a bad
grade so want
to kill
someone

Dad is pissy
drunk so you
smoke weed

Acted out with

teacher
because Mom
deported

SOCIAL
AWARENESS

Shout at the
school
counselor that
she doesnt
care

As GT tutor,
you tell kids
he is slow &
hopeless.

Chronically
worry about
situations not
yet realized

Posting
jokes about
someone
on
Facebook

Road rage for

cutting people
off in traffic

Brilliant in
school but
passive on
feelings

Really strong
episodes of
unchecked
anger

SELFMANAGEME
NT

Overreactin
g to other
peoples
stress

Not wanting
to work in
teams

Screaming
rather than
discussing

Socially
insensitive
facial
expressions

Selfabsorption in
social settings

SOCIAL
SKILLS

So, They Can Be Taught! And They Can

Teach and Pay It Forward

SELF
AWARENESS

SOCIAL
AWARENESS

How Might
Dabrowskis
Domains Fit in
with EI?

SELFMANAGEME
NT

SOCIAL
SKILLS

WHAT THEY SAID about the

CASE CLIENTS
(what to do to be successful?)
SPARKLE

MARCO

LAWRENCE

----She needs to keep going to school and get help, so she can have
somewhere to live
----She needs to focus and try to come to school.
Focus on her goals.

----He said that he is going to graduate no matter what

----He needs to stop working and go to school.
He has to keep positivity and work hard in school and control his
emotions.

----He needs to get treatment

He needs to be quiet, to take it easy.
----He needs to calm down and do his best.

They Can Be Taught! And They Can

Teach and Pay It Forward - Example

GIVE TEENS CHOICE (Case

menu),
THEN GIVE THEM VOICE
(The Takeaways)
1. Dont sugar coat the problems to be solved build
resilience, grit and problem solving mindsets by keeping it
engagingly real.
2. Give them voice to lay out issues and then gently
facilitate their conclusion drawing without erasing voice.

3. Use bibliotherapy (& videotherapy) to help them see

how life takes more than one type of smart. => IQ + EQ

REFERENCES (ABRIDGED)
(For Full References, see Weebly EQForYou Site)

Koughan, F., Kalikow, L., Vargas, K., In Lee, F., Bermon, J., Gould, J.,
Dragonetti, J., PBS Distribution (Firm). (2012). Dropout nation. Boston,
Mass.: WGBH Education Foundation.
Brackett, M., Divecha, D., Stern, R. (2015). Teaching Teenagers to Develop
Their Emotional Intelligence, Harvard Business Review, (May 19th, 2015)
retrieved October 31, 2016 from https://hbr.org/2015/05/teaching-teenagers-todevelop-their-emotional-intelligence
[Dabrowski Graphic] Piechowski, M.M. Developmental Potential: in New
Voices in Counseling the Gifted, ed. Colangelo, N. (ed), Zaffrano, R.T.) pp. 2527 (Dubuque: IA, Kendall Hunt, 1979).
[Dabrowski Graphic] Is your Child Ungifted?, Scientific American, retrieved
October 30, 2016 from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/isyour-child-ungifted/
CHC Graphic, Is your Child Ungifted?, Scientific American, retrieved October 30,
2016 from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/is-your-childungifted/

REFERENCES (ABRIDGED)
(For Full References, see Weebly EQForYou Site)

Koughan, F., Kalikow, L., Vargas, K., In Lee, F., Bermon, J., Gould, J.,
Dragonetti, J., PBS Distribution (Firm). (2012). Dropout nation. Boston,
Mass.: WGBH Education Foundation.
Brackett, M., Divecha, D., Stern, R. (2015). Teaching Teenagers to Develop
Their Emotional Intelligence, Harvard Business Review, (May 19th, 2015)
retrieved October 31, 2016 from https://hbr.org/2015/05/teaching-teenagers-todevelop-their-emotional-intelligence
[Dabrowski Graphic] Piechowski, M.M. Developmental Potential: in New
Voices in Counseling the Gifted, ed. Colangelo, N. (ed), Zaffrano, R.T.) pp. 2527 (Dubuque: IA, Kendall Hunt, 1979).
[Dabrowski Graphic] Is your Child Ungifted?, Scientific American, retrieved
October 30, 2016 from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/isyour-child-ungifted/
CHC Graphic, Is your Child Ungifted?, Scientific American, retrieved October 30,
2016 from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/is-your-childungifted/