Per graduate studies for HRD, this subject presents an argument for teaching emotional intelligence in primary grades.

1. Emotional Intelligence:
Why it should be taught in our schools?
Mike Adams
Tom Henry / HRD 880
Tues 7pm

2. The Current Reality
• Increased pressure for testing improvement
• Increase in bullying, gangs and school violence
• Increase in teen suicide, drug-tobacco-alcohol
use
• Decrease in academic proficiency rates
(U.S.A.)
• Increase in peer pressure and societal
influences (i.e. media, gaming, celebrity)

3. Parents, Teachers, Educators,
Employers want Solutions!
• Instead the state of education appears to be
like a hamster wheel as we spend costs on
intervention rather than prevention.

4. What is E.I. (Emotional Intelligence)?
Source: Six Seconds – The
Emotional Intelligence Network, 2013
Emotional Intelligence, often referred to as
EI, EQ (Emotional Quotient) or SEL (Social
Emotional Learning) is the ability to motivate
oneself and persist in the face of frustrations;
to control impulse and delay gratification; to
regulate one’s moods and keep distress from
swamping the ability to think; to empathise
and to hope.
~Goleman (1995)

5. How SEL (Social Emotional Learning) & EI
can create such a SOLUTION?!
Source: Six Seconds – The
Emotional Intelligence Network, 2013

6. Quantitative Data Speaks!
Source: Six Seconds – The
Emotional Intelligence Network, 2013

7. Are you aware
of how much
we are already
spending as a
reaction?
The Critics Corner
“It’ll be too costly and time-
consuming!”
38% of HS dropouts
fall below poverty line
Huffington Post – 2013
Would cost U.S.
$2.5Billion to arm the
rest of nation’s schools
with disciplinarians &
security.
Washington Post - 2013
$14.1 Billion
spent in
healthcare
costs
associated
with
childhood
obesity
Robert Wood
Johnson
Foundation– 2013

8. The Critics Corner
“No one is taking it
seriously!”
The State of Illinois passed a bill in 2003
making “social & emotional learning” a
part of school curriculum.
As of 2013, there are tens of thousands of
emotional-literacy programs running
nationwide.
Kahn -NYTimes, 2013
E.I. is spreading
across the world!

9. The Compelling Case
“No doubt emotional intelligence is
more rare than book smarts, but my
experience says it is actually more
important in the making of a leader.
You just can't ignore it.” - Jack Welsh
As much as 80% of adult “success” comes from
EQ.” — Daniel Goleman
If 80% of an adult’s success comes from EQ, then
how much of this begins with our youth in our
schools? Our discovery for peace, academic
success, and productive citizens begins here!
– M. Adams

10. Questions?
Learn more about EQ. Get your free E-book on Emotional
Intelligence at http://www.6seconds.org