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=​​Emotional Intelligence and Other "Soft" Skills Aren't so "Soft" Anymore ...= Pink Session 1 - A Whole New Mind **

__TASK__: 1. Read the Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions. 2. View the videos and read through the Power Point. 3. Jot down three big ideas onto your Tic-Tac-Toe board. 4. Back at your table...Discuss the Essential Questions and your big ideas with your partner. 5. Add three big ideas to your pink dots.

//__Enduring Understanding:__// There are powerful socioeconomic forces that are shaping our world into a Conceptual Age. Educators can intrinsically motivate students by channeling six 21st century skills.

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1. Why are left brain skills necessary but no longer sufficient and right-brain abilities becoming first among equals? 2. How do you incorporate right-brain skills into a left-brain system? 3. How is your classroom routine and right answer and/or novelty and nuance? 4. Which of Pink’s Six Senses (design, story, symphony, empathy, play or meaning) are you best at? Worst? How about your students?

2. View the video and complete the self-assessment chart.
3. Read about the 7 Da Vincian Principles. 4. Jot down three big ideas onto your Tic-Tac-Toe board.

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There is more to life than our intellect and academics. Leonardo da Vinci pursued truth and beauty (both 21st Century principles), and with his guidance, we can encourage our students to do the same. ======

//__Essential Questions__//:
1. How do we encourage/discourage true curiousity in the classroom? 2. Which is better? Mistakes or Right Answers? 3. What gets in the way of truly seeing our world? How can we open our eyes and those of our students? 4. If change is either positive or negative, how do we handle the negative? 5. How can studying the “science of art and the art of science” enhance student understanding of the content area you teach? 6. What is the effect on learning when our physical or mental health suffers? 7. “Everything is connected to everything else.” What would our students say is connected to our class/subject? media type="youtube" key="ZEQtG1JW-7U" width="181" height="199" align="left"

**Blue Set - EQ, Habits of the Mind, and Achievement**
__TASK__: 1. Read the Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions. 2. Take your own EQ Quiz. 3. Watch Dan Goleman video. 4. Read CASEL PP slides. 3. Jot down three big ideas onto your Tic-Tac-Toe board. 4. Back at your table...Discuss the Essential Questions and your big ideas with your partner. 5. Add three big ideas to your blue dots.

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Developing emotional intelligence abilities to empathize, persevere, control impulses, communicate clearly, solve problems, and work with others not can become HABIT and not only enables a sense of personal-well being and happiness, but can be directly tied to achievement in school and work.======

//__Essential Questions:__//
 1. What do you think the difference is between SEL (Social Emotional Learning) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI)?  2. Which of the Improved Academic Outcomes is most important to you? To your students? Parents? Employers? Which is the least important to these same people?  3. Which EQ/EI skills do you observe your students doing well? Which need improvement?  4. How can you incorporate EQ/EI skills and SEL into your lessons without adding “one more thing?”  5. Compare and contrast Costa’s Habits of the Mind to EQ/EI and 21st Century Skills. What patterns do you see?

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