1. Recommended tools in enhancing
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence can be enhanced in school
with the help of the following tools and strategies.
2. 1. Emotional Literacy Workshop
• This will help teachers to communicate with
students, recognize and manage emotions and
increase self-awareness.
3. 2. Emotional Literacy Museum
• It is a self-directed learning experience that teaches
about the physiology of emotions, emotional
regulation, and emotional literacy.
•3. Mixed Emotions Cards
• It is a beautiful deck of "tarot-like" cards of feelings
(labeled with feelings and synonyms).
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6. 4. eMotion Cards
It is an evocative, playful moon face illustration of
emotions (open-ended without labels).
5. Biodots
It is a simple reminder that emotions are part of
our physiology.
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9. 6. Bingo Emotions
It is typically a classic "bingo" game played with
emotions.
7. Feeling Faces
These are photos of real people and data about how
survey respondents evaluated each picture.
10. 8. Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence
Assessment
It provides feedback about the way one uses EQ and
how to improve in this area.
9. The Zoo: Animal Workshop
It is an activity that intends to imitate an animal
behavior and gestures that ends with reflections and
group sharing.
11. 10. Face Workshop
It is an activity in which partners face each other while
showing different facial expressions and qualities that
ends with reflections.
11. The Machine Transformer
Participants in groups have to transform into an
assigned machine or vehicle, of which each member
shall comprise different parts, deemed essentials and
equally important that usually ends up with
intereactions and reflections.
12. 12. Tower Building
Groups will be tasked to build a tower using pop
sticks and straws. The goal is to make the tallest and
strongest tower of all. This will end up with
interactions, sharing, open forums and patching of
emotional barriers.
13. 13. Build Me a House
The participants in groups will be tasked to build a
house using any available materials around them.
The goal is to make the strongest house. Then, the
facilitator will suddenly destroy the house made by
the group and observe the members' emotions and
reactions and let them express their feelings and
thoughts. At the end, each one will draw realizations,
lessons and values for reflection.
