3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #193, 19th March 2024

What is Emotional Intelligence (EI) and why is it important?

How can one assess and develop their Emotional Intelligence?

What are the practical implications of Emotional Intelligence in everyday life?

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Three images of the week

Two Thoughts of the Week

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

One Video of the Week

Sometimes emotions don’t make sense, and sometimes being emotional doesn’t mean you’re emotionally intelligent. Growing up, rationality often came before emotions for Ramona, but as she grew older and realized that she had never actively learned how to deal with her emotions and that she wasn’t the only one who lacked this skill, she knew she had to change something.

In her talk, Ramona guides us through her experiences and shows us 6 steps to become more emotionally intelligent.

Through several personal experiences as well as her volunteer experience at a local soccer club and for the student organization AIESEC, she started thinking about the topic of emotional intelligence and how it affects everyone’s lives and the way we deal with our problems.

Guest Expert of the Week

Reading with Ms. Meenu

Vocabulary Enhancement through read-aloud: 

If you compare our past generations, you may notice that children’s vocabulary knowledge is not as rich as it was in the past. Their bank of known words seems to be shrinking. In my opinion it is because adults are not always taking the time to talk, discuss and expand their children’s vocabularies. In the grocery store, everyone is on their own electric devices. So, children aren’t hearing a conversation like the following that I used to have with my son in the grocery store, “Hey look! That’s an apple. Apples grow on trees. People use apples to make the apple sauce you like for breakfast. What colors of apples do you see? And so on.

Effective instructional sequence for teaching vocabulary:

·         Read the text.

·         Review the story context for the word.

·         Provide a kid-friendly definition of the word.

·         Have your kid say the word.

·         Provide examples of the word used in contexts different from the story context.

·         Engage your children in activities to get them to interact with the words.

Happy Reading!

Meenu Gera

Consulting home and school librarian and reading guide.

Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.

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