Self-Science, The Emotional Intelligence Curriculum
Karen McCown, Anabel Jensen, Joshua Freedman & Marsha Rideout
Paperback, 165 pages, 8" x 10.5"
$34.65
Published by Six Seconds, 2nd Edition, July 1998
ISBN-10: 0962912344
ISBN-13: 978-0962912344
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Self-Science
A proven curriculum to develop EQ
Self-Science is a proven curriculum for teaching social and emotional skills. Self-Science is also used as the foundation for whole-school improvement projects to create a more respectful, responsible, and resilient school community.
Self-Science teaches social-emotional skills and provides a forum for students to practice the skills as they become more aware of themselves and others. Self-Science is comprehensive, developmental, and experiential. In his best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman praises it as a model program. In one study, 100% of the teachers said Self-Science increased cooperation and improved classroom relationships. Seventy five percent said after using the program, both violence and “put downs” decreased, plus students became more focused and their achievement improved
Self-Science is a curriculum and a process for teaching social and emotional skills. It is a flexible framework where students do activities, or experiments, that lead to discussion and learning. The students' own experiences, concerns, and questions drive the content, so the process works with people from all kinds of backgrounds, all ages, an all levels. Self-Science fuses cognitive and affective learning: students build feeling and thinking skills at the same time.
Rather than telling children what not to do, Self-Science provides multiple options of what to do. It helps children become more aware of themselves and make more conscious decisions about the ways they think, feel, and act independently and interdependently. Nationally and internationally, parents and teachers are increasingly concerned about school culture and emotional intelligence competencies. Issues of exclusion, violence, depression, and under achievement are all addressed within this preventative, comprehensive program.
Self-Science -- so named because emotional intelligence grows from the study of ourselves and our relationships -- is one of the few comprehensive, developmental, and research-based curricula for creating a school-wide culture of emotional intelligence. The Self-Science program creates a fundamental shift in the structure of the school toward collaboration, inclusion, and humanism.
Part of the power of Self-Science is its flexibility. Once a facilitator understands how a lesson flows, she or he can easily adapt any current topics, other exercises, and even academic subject matter into the lessons. In addition, Self-Science can be taught as a "stand-alone" class or folded into existing programs such as class meetings, advisory, life-skills, or community service.
Daniel Goleman studied Self-Science in one school and wrote an entire chapter of his best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, about the concepts. Goleman writes:
"Self-Science is a pioneer, an early harbinger of an idea that is spreading to schools coast to coast.... A list of the contents of Self-Science is an almost point-for-point match with the ingredients of emotional intelligence -- and with the core skills recommended as primary prevention for the range of pitfalls threatening children.... Were he alive today, Aristotle, so concerned with emotional skillfulness, might well approve." He also calls the program "a model for the teaching of emotional intelligence."
