Infusing EI into Higher Education: Three Curriculum Strategies

Educators aiming to teach emotional intelligence in the classroom are faced with a broad spectrum of possibilities. Should curriculum present theoretical models and definitions, or focus on practical applications? Can EI skills and concepts be infused into other course topics, or does a truly research-based treatment require exclusive focus? What sort of course structure, style, [...]

Teaching Emotional Skills to Kids

Parents, teachers, and counselors of school-age children and teens will welcome this free set of emotional skill-building activities available from MHS. Five different workbooks provide age-appropriate games and exercises based on the Youth Version of the world’s most popular EI measure, the EQ-i.
Here you’ll find activities that can help build awareness of emotions and [...]

Resiliency, Teaching, and Emotional Intelligence

I’ve already reported on a number of studies linking emotional intelligence in educators and school principals to various performance criteria, but there always seems to be room for more validation studies. A recent dissertation by Aileen Thompson Bumphus looked at the relationship between resilience and emotional intelligence in educational leaders.
The study was designed to help [...]

Emotional Intelligence as a Strategy for Scholarship Retention

The National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) will hold it’s Annual Conferenence, The Rhythm of Success: From Scholarships to Graduates, in New Orleans on October 27 – 30.
Jon Duffy, Senior Assessment Consultant at MHS, will be joining Kevin Byrne and Oscar Sweeten-Lopez of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation for a presentation titled Emotional Intelligence as [...]

Infusing Emotional Intelligence into FYE Courses at Peace College

The following article has been submitted by Korrel Kanoy, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology at Peace College. In it she details how her campus has had great success applying Emotional Intelligence with their first year students, and she provides advice for other campuses who are considering incorporating emotional and social topics into [...]

EI, Emotional Self-Efficacy and Academic Success in British Secondary Schools

The significant progress that educators in the United Kingdom have made in recognizing the importance of Emotional Intelligence and integrating it into school curriculums can be seen in the success of the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) program, on which we have often reported here in the EI Insider. The following study, submitted [...]

Announcing a New EQ-i® Report Option for Higher Education

The new EQ-i ® Higher Education Report (EQ-i HEd) is the product of many years spent working with campuses to fine tune the EQ-i reporting options to meet the specific needs of Higher Education staff and faculty working with students. Higher Education users already familiar with the EQ-i will find that this new report option delivers all [...]

The Dell Scholars Program: Emotional Components of Student Success

This summer the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation’s Dell Scholars Program will begin a study to determine the Emotional Intelligence competencies that best contribute to the success of their scholars.
The primary purpose of the EI project is to generate strategies and support networks to promote the social and emotional development of every Dell Scholar. The [...]

Promoting International Intelligence at Marlowe Academy

This July MHS UK took Social Responsibility to the corporate level when they sponsored a World Awareness Day at Marlowe Academy secondary school in Kent. Staff and students at the school came up with the ambitious idea of observing World Awareness Day by displaying 33 international flags to represent each of the nations present among [...]

What’s the Matter with Kids Today?

Gambling behavior in youth has been linked to a number of bad outcomes, including criminal behavior, poor academic achievement, school truancy, financial problems, poor social relationships, substance abuse, depression and suicide. Problem gambling is reported to occur 2-4 times more often in youth than in adults.  This is prompting teachers, parents, and youth psychologists to [...]