Have fun teaching sight words
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Get your students practicing all things related to the alphabet with this HUGE alphabet worksheet bundle. Students will work on letter identification, beginning sounds, letter formation, lower and uppercase letter differentiation and so much more. There are 4 different worksheet types included in this pack which cover each letter of the alphabet. A total of 104 worksheets are included.What’s Included:♥ Alphabet Worksheets – Letter Work♥ Beginning Sounds Worksheets – Color By My Sound♥ Alphabet M
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English Language Arts, Phonics, Writing
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PreK - K
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Activities, Printables, Worksheets
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My Nerdy Teacher by Alina V
$100.00
$19.00
⭐⭐⭐ FLASH SALE ⭐⭐⭐Grab The Decodable Readers Passages Mega Bundle for just $19! Hurry up, time is running out! Your students can practice reading in a fun and engaging way using these decodable texts. Science of Reading AlignedLow Prep Required. Simply print and go.These decodable passages will help your students practice the phonics patterns you're teaching them.Perfect for centers, homework, morning work, and more.Printable and Digital (Google Slides™)Perfect for Preschool Kindergarten, 1st gr
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Phonics, Reading, Writing
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K - 2nd
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Activities, Centers, Printables
CCSS:
RF.K.2d, RF.K.3, RF.K.3c, RF.1.2c, RF.1.2d…
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My Nerdy Teacher by Alina V
$100.00
$19.00
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These activities will help your students practice the phonics patterns you're teaching
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PreK - 1st
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Activities, Centers, Printables
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RF.K.1, RF.K.1a, RF.K.1b, RF.K.1c, RF.K.1d…
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Aimee's Edventures LLC
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It was breaking my heart to watch my students wandering around the room trying not to cry when I said, "Please find a partner." So I created these cards! Now they are loved by thousands of teachers who have the same goal of including every student in their classroom.These partnership cards make it quick and easy to set up differentiated small group work, and they're perfect for kids of all abilities. The best part is that they don't have to guess who their partner is, it's right on the card (whi
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Also included in: Classroom Management BUNDLE
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My Teaching Pal
This packet is jammed full of worksheets to help your students practice digraphs.
It includes worksheets for digraphs ch, sh, th, ph and wh. The bonus inclusion of digraphs ph and wh is perfect to provide a challenge to your higher ability students. The packet includes 42 engaging worksheets which allow students to practice writing digraphs, reading digraphs, identifying digraph sounds and so much more! It is perfect for whole-class activities, math stations, fast finisher activities, homework a
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English Language Arts, Phonics, Reading
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K - 2nd
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Centers, Printables, Worksheets
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Lucky Little Learners
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This is a year-long bundle of 576 differentiated 2nd grade reading comprehension passages and questions on three different levels. These reading fluency passages are a game changer! Digital 2nd grade reading comprehension passages and questions are also included! ⭐️Download the preview file to see each title!⭐️Want to improve reading fluency?Each of the 2nd grade reading comprehension passages include a word count and a fluency tracker.
Perfect for repeated readings and reading fluency practice.
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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
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Assessment, Printables
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RL.2.1, RL.2.2, RL.2.3, RL.2.4, RL.2.5…
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My Teaching Pal
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$15.00
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This bundle features a HUGE 263 math worksheets for first grade! The worksheets cover addition and subtraction, numbers and place value, 2D & 3D shapes, data and graphing, fractions & partitioning and time. These fun-filled worksheets are great to use all year round and they are perfect for whole-class activities, math stations, fast finisher activities, homework and review. This bundle consists of the following packets:First Grade Addition and Subtraction WorksheetsFirst Grade 2D and 3D
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My Nerdy Teacher by Alina V
Are you looking for some fun and engaging Alphabet Tracing Worksheets A-Z for your students? This packet is perfect for early finishers, morning work, homework and more.
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PreK - K
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Activities, Printables, Worksheets
CCSS:
RF.K.1, RF.K.1a, RF.K.1b, RF.K.1c, RF.K.1d…
Also included in: Beginning Sounds Worksheet Letter Practice Free Alphabet Flashcards Updates
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Melissa Mazur
$15.00
$12.00
These third grade reading fluency and comprehension passages contain 30 ready-to-print passages (15 fiction and 15 nonfiction). Each leveled passage is in the 520L and 830L range and has between 196 and 222 words. Use the comprehension questions to assess understanding after the students read the text! *UPDATE* You can now share this with your students digitally! This resource was created using Google Forms.
You must have a Google email for use. Each passage can be assigned in Google Classr
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Reading
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Activities, Assessment
CCSS:
RF.3.4, RF.3.4a, RF.3.4b, RF.3.4c
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages and Reading Fluency Passages BUNDLE - 30% OFF
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Teaching With a Mountain View
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This discounted BUNDLE of three resources includes 90 printable (and DIGITAL!) pages to teach, review, and apply reading and writing skills! The following resources are included in the bundle:Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills40 pages teaching 8 key reading skills. Each reading skill has five pages devoted to it!Using Pictures to Review Mixed Reading Skills20 pages reviewing key reading skills. Each page reviews a variety of reading skills.Using Pictures to Teach Figurative Language15 pag
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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
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Centers, Printables
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Teaching Trove
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This massive bundle of 123 first and second grade literacy centers provides the perfect way to provide engaging, differentiated ELA practice all year long.Each center follows a similar format, making it perfect for independent practice, leaving you with more time to teach with fewer interruptions!Great for centers or fast finishers, with this bundle you’ll be able to easily differentiate for the needs of all your students with a massive selection of games to choose from.Each common core aligned
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English Language Arts, Phonics, Spelling
Grades:
1st - 2nd
CCSS:
RF.1.1a, RF.1.2, RF.1.2a, RF.1.2b, RF.1.2c…
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My Teaching Pal
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$10.00
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This bundle is packed with so many fun-filled math worksheets for kindergarten students. It is perfect for whole-class activities, math stations, fast finisher activities, homework and review. The worksheets cover addition and subtraction to 10, place value, 2D & 3D shapes and numbers to 20.
A total of 126 worksheets are included which are great to use all year round. This bundle consists of the following packets:Kindergarten Addition and Subtraction WorksheetsKindergarten Numbers to 20 Work
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Basic Operations, Math, Numbers
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Types:
Centers, Printables, Worksheets
by
Kaitlynn Albani
Inside you will find 60 kindergarten comprehension passages! These passages are great for kinders and would also be suitable for pre-k or first graders depending on how you use them. There is a lot of variety included. Please check the images and preview to see IF these passages will work for your students.The passages are set up into three categories...First 20 passages: Basic story with 3 questions. The students are given two answers to choose from for each question.Second 20 passages: Basic
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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Grades:
K - 1st
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Centers, Printables, Worksheets
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Teaching With a Mountain View
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Read and comprehend fiction and informational text with the ultimate read and review bundle. This is the best reading skill review bundle for the ENTIRE YEAR.Rapid Read and Review is the perfect way to engage your students in relevant and rigorous review of reading skills! This review bundle is the perfect way to keep your students' reading skills sharp OR to help you teach the skills. It can be used in centers, small groups, whole class, or as homework to review essential informational text com
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Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
Activities, Centers
CCSS:
RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.5…
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ThatKinderMama
$10.00
This is a four week illustration unit to help kindergarten/first grade writers become confident in their drawing and coloring skills. Primary students will learn how to draw with shapes and people with different facial expressions, hairstyles, and skin tones.
This illustration study sets kindergarten students up for success for the rest of the year during writers workshop. Students can reference their directed drawing notebook throughout the year if they forget how to draw an object already taugh
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Also included in: Kindergarten Writing Units GROWING BUNDLE | Writers Workshop
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Kaitlynn Albani
Inside you will find 6 fun and unique fonts in a ZIP file! Most accent characters included in all fonts.Please check the preview to see all of the fonts included in this set!Notes-There are 5 fonts included + 1 doodle font.All script fonts include capital/lowercase letters.More Dreams, Rainbow Dreams and Elementary are all caps fonts.Check the preview to see all of the fonts in action!$ SAVE MONEY $OVER 400 FONTS + EVERY NEW FONT FOR FREE!CHECK OUT THE GROWING FONT BUNDLE HERETerms of Use*Fonts
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You understand the importance of sight word practice! These sight word flashcards help children read high frequency words in isolation and in decodable sentences! Every card helps readers improve their word recognition, fluency, and decoding skills! They are perfect for guided reading, reading lessons, and homework. Click on the preview to see what makes these cards so special!Reading research supports learning new sight words within a sentence. What is included?400 sight word cards with decodab
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Phonics, Reading, Reading Strategies
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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Flash Cards, Printables, Word Walls
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The Little Ladybug Shop
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Grow your readers with this wonderful Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions for 3rd Grade- 5th Grade Packet (digital options now available)! The Reading Passages Bundle includes 20 Weeks of Weekly Practice perfect for: warm-up, bell work, homework, or quick assessments.
Students can use these sets independently, in literacy groups, guided reading groups for homework, or perfect to leave for a sub. These activities check students skills without the boring bubbling in, it also allows teache
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Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Activities, Printables
CCSS:
RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.4, RL.4.1, RL.4.2…
Also included in: Nonfiction Poetry Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions 3rd 4th Grade
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Kim Miller
These SIMPLE No-Fuss Editable Classroom Newsletter Templates are perfect to use all year long and make parent communication easy! Keep your parents up-to-date with what's going on in your classroom throughout the year. Whether you send a newsletter home weekly or monthly, these templates make it easy, and editing them is a breeze! Included in this download:24 different COLOR newsletter templates (color and black & white)24 different BLACK & WHITE newsletter templatesnewsletter templates
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Are your students looking for a bit o'luck of the Irish this St.
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Handwriting should be fun for older students too! This is a set of daily handwriting practice sheets that students will actually beg for! This handwriting pack is great for students who already know how to form letters, but just can't seem to slow down and write neatly! Handwriting practice for all ages! ACTIVITIES INCLUDED:26 pages of Silly Alphabet Sentences20 pages of Positive Affirmations20 pages of Awesome Animal Facts20 pages of Gross Facts20 pages of Marvelous Math Facts20 pages of Space
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Also included in: Handwriting Worksheets | CURSIVE PRINT D'NEALIAN BUNDLE for Older Students
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Community Helpers Math and Literacy Centers are loaded with fun, hands-on school themed activities to help your students build math and literacy concepts! Now includes two fine motor activities, one writing center, six literacy activities, and eight math activities.
Literacy skills covered are letter identification, beginning sounds, handwriting, writing friendly letters, rhyme/word families, syllables, building vocabulary words, sight words, and writing/journaling. Math skills covered are one-to
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This complete alphabet bundle has everything you need to teach students letter names, letter sounds, fine motor skills, handwriting and so much more! This bundle is geared towards preschool, pre-k, transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students. Children love to make alphabet crafts, anchor charts, mazes, dabbing, alphabet drawing, cut and paste activities, worksheets and games.This bundle comes with 11 activity packs that are engaging for students and low prep for you! This comes out to
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Grades:
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CCSS:
RF.
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Also included in: Complete Kindergarten Curriculum - Math Units - Reading - Phonics - Writing
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Having Fun Teaching Sight Words Tips and Tricks for Teachers
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Sight words are one of my favorite things to teach children.
I love seeing them light up when they start to read and everything comes together. I am always having fun teaching sight words. It’s easy to do with the right activities, tips, and tricks. I’ve compiled my best tips and tricks to help you effectively teach sight words.
Why are Sight Words Important
Before we dive into the fun online sight word games, let’s talk about why sight words are important. Sight words are high-frequency words. They appear in text most often. We can’t use basic phonics skills to decode sight words. We need to look and recognize these words without sounding them out.
Sight words are immediately recognizable. Some examples are and, best, or does because they don’t follow the rules of spelling. These sight words need to be memorized since decoding them is difficult for children.
Teaching sight words to students helps them to read more fluently. This helps them to feel more confident when reading. They are able to understand text better and even write better.
What Is the Best Way to Teach Sight Words
Every teacher will probably give you a different answer to this question. As with everything, I find teaching sight words is best through hands-on activities, interactive play, and a little bit of worksheets. Working on sight word practice every day is very important. It takes a lot of repetition and practice for children to understand and memorize sight words. When you make it part of your every day learning, you’ll be surprised how quickly they pick it up!
Best Tips for Having Fun Teaching Sight Words
Introduce the Sight Word
- Show your student the sight word and say its name. Have them repeat it.
- Say each letter in the word. For example, and is spelled a n d.
- Name the individual phonemes (sounds) in the sight word. For example, in the word and, there are 3 phonemes: /a/, /n/, and /d/.
- As you say each letter and it’s sound, point out any unexpected spellings.
For example, we spell is with /i/ and the /z/ sound is spelled with an s. That can be confusing for early readers, so we want to make sure to talk about it as we learn each sight word.
Sight Word Writing
It’s important that children learn to not only read sight words, but also to write them. This helps reinforce phonemes and builds muscle memory. Here are some ideas:
- Writing with shaving cream. This is always a big hit with children. I use a tray to keep the mess contained. I then spray a bunch of shaving cream on it (usually bought from the dollar store). We then use sight words for the children to look at and copy writing in the shaving cream.
- Writing in sand or salt. This is the same concept as writing in shaving cream, but we use the eraser side of a pencil or our finger to write in the sand.
- Sight word practice worksheets. These are perfect for children learning to identify and write the sight word. They will work on phonemes as they decode the sight word at the end of this activity.
You can grab all Dolch Sight Word Practice worksheets here or Fry’s first 300 sight words here.
Online Sight Word Games
I love using online games and activities when teaching. Children love technology. These sight word Boom Cards are a great addition to our sight word lessons. I have included audio directions on each slide that are optional to use and very helpful.
Have you tried online games yet? They’re great for morning work, centers, small group time or homework. What I specifically love about these Sight Word Online Games is how easy they are to use. Children are so engaged playing them. And the best part for teachers…they’re self checking! That saves you SO MUCH TIME! You can read more about these online games here.
Hands-on Sight Word Activities
You know that I always love hands-on activities. The more materials you can bring into learning, the more your students learn. It engages their long-term memory.
Here are some ideas for hands-on activities to teach sight words:
- Planting Sight Words: This activity is perfect for learning sight words and children’s names. It uses play dough and magnetic letters. You can edit the PDF document to enter any sight word you want and the activity automatically populates. Then print, grab some play dough and magnetic letters, and enjoy! You can grab the Planting Sight Words Activity here.
- Stamp the sight word with alphabet stamps. This is simple, but very effective. Just grab some stamps and display the sight word. You can have it on an interactive board, a whiteboard, or use flash cards. Children will then look at the word and stamp it on a piece of paper. This also works on fine motors skills.
Practice, Practice, Practice
It takes a ton of practice for children to master sight words. Work on them every day in different ways, and they’ll catch on in no time. Remember to keep it fun and interactive and you’ll be having fun teaching sight words.
3 Online Sight Word Games for Kids 5 Tips for Social Emotional Development Early Childhood
Emotional intelligence: how to learn to understand your own and other people's emotions
Emotional intelligence is twice as important as hard skills and IQ for career success. Together with Doctor of Psychology Viktoriya Shimanskaya, we will tell you where emotions come from, how to manage them and better understand other people
About the expert: Viktoriya Shimanskaya — Doctor of Psychology, lecturer at MGIMO, MIP, expert in the development of emotional intelligence. Author of the book “Communication” for teenagers, co-founder of the SKILLFOLIO soft skills development project. Author of the first Russian patented method for developing emotional intelligence.
What is emotional intelligence and why is it important
Emotional Intelligence (Emotional Quotient) is the ability to recognize emotions, intentions, motivations, desires of oneself and other people and manage it.
The skill helps to solve practical problems and achieve goals in life and at work. People with developed emotional intelligence are able to negotiate with other people, make decisions and respond correctly to negative situations.
Through emotions we react to events, words and circumstances. If they are not understood, what is happening will be distorted. For example, at work they made a remark to you, and you began to argue and conflict. As a result, this will lead to neurosis, apathy and other depressive states. At the same time, depression does not go away quickly: in 15–39% of people, it lasts more than a year.
A person with developed emotional intelligence reacts to causes, not actions or emotions. This helps him to perceive criticism correctly, understand other people and respond to them with an adequate reaction.
What is emotional intelligence and how it will help your career
The concept of emotional intelligence became popular after the publication of the 1995 book of the same name by science journalist Daniel Goleman.
According to Goleman's research, people with developed emotional intelligence have better mental health, work efficiency, and leadership skills. At the same time, 67% of leadership abilities fall on emotional intelligence. It is more important than technical knowledge and IQ twice.
A study by Egon Zehnder confirms this. They analyzed 515 senior executives and found that people with developed emotional intelligence are more likely to succeed. The Carnegie Institute of Technology reported that 85% of our financial success comes from emotional intelligence, leadership, and communication skills. Only 15% depend on technical knowledge. Soft human skills, closely related to emotional intelligence, are the most important skills in the present and the future.
How emotional intelligence works
Let's analyze the model presented by the EQ-factor laboratory led by Nicolas Koro and Viktoriy Shimanskaya in 2014. It clearly shows the coefficients that form the intellectual-emotional profile of a person - IEPP.
Emotional intelligence does not exist separately from the intellect, it is not its opposite. Emotional intelligence EQ and mental intelligence IQ cannot be separated from each other. Moreover, if EQ is not developed, a person will not have a high IQ.
To develop emotional intelligence, you need to focus on four drivers: awareness, self-esteem, motivation, and adaptability. The development of each of the drivers forms the development of the corresponding emotional-intellectual strategy.
- Awareness. Includes awareness of one's thoughts, feelings and behavior. Develops the strategy of "Philosophers". Philosophers learn quickly and accumulate knowledge, but it is difficult for them to move from theory to practice and translate knowledge into real skills.
- Self-assessment. Includes acceptance, the ability not to depend on external assessments and opinions, a positive perception of the world and determination.
Helps to master the strategy of the "Stars". Such people are self-confident, but tend to talk to impress. Stars run the risk of remaining at the level of "impressions" if they do not pump up the drivers of awareness and motivation. - Motivation. Includes openness to new things, goal-setting, experiencing failures, striving for self-actualization. Helps to master the strategy of "Heroes". Heroes enjoy self-development and achievements, so they constantly improve and can lead people. Heroes run the risk of quickly burning out if they do not understand the reasons for their work.
- Adaptability. Includes empathy, stress tolerance, decision making and communication skills. Develops the strategy of "Leaders". Such people are stress-resistant, empathic and hardworking, but prone to impostor syndrome. This is a cognitive distortion when a person considers himself a deceiver and does not attribute achievements to his qualities and skills.
Emotional intelligence is a kind of base of the personality pyramid. The larger the volume of this pyramid, the more opportunities and influence a person can have on his life, the lives of other people and the world as a whole.
All four profiles are equally promising. To build an effective life strategy, you need to understand your strong drivers and pay attention to the weak ones. In conjunction with the IQ intelligence vector, emotional intelligence forms the life strategy of "Creators". It helps to realize the potential of a person and achieve the highest level of self-realization.
How to develop emotional intelligence
Honesty and the correct assessment of one's behavior are key factors for the development of EQ, says Viktoria Shimanskaya, Doctor of Psychology and an expert in the development of emotional intelligence.
Honesty. To test your honesty, do a simple exercise - write down on paper three personality traits that you do not like about yourself.
For example, "I wake up late", "I'm lazy", and "I get easily irritated". According to the first principle of the concept of emotional intelligence, there is a positive intention in every action we take. Think about why you wake up late and what is the positive intention behind this action. For example, because you get very tired at work and worry about a new project.
Psychologist and author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman tries to figure out why we don't show compassion more often and how it will change our lives
Behavior assessment. It is difficult to answer the question why we behave this way in a particular situation. But an honest answer gives a reaction on three levels: meaning, body and emotions - this is the second paradigm in the concept of emotional intelligence. If you change the reaction at one of these levels, the rest will change. For example, you are doing a good job, but you realized that customers do not return again because you do not know how to communicate with them.
Because of this, you are annoyed, but the awareness of this thing will give a state of insight at the level of meaning. At the level of the body, there will be relaxation and a feeling, "as if a mountain has fallen from the shoulders." At the level of emotions, it will become easier. You have found the true cause of anger and irritation, although it is difficult to admit.
Emotional Intelligence Development Tools
There are four components to developing emotional intelligence. Self-awareness and self-control help you work with yourself, while social competence and relationship management help you build strong relationships with others.
- Awareness
The development of emotional intelligence should begin with the awareness of what is happening to you. You need to learn to separate yourself and emotions, to present them as a separate phenomenon and look at it from the side. Emotions are your reaction to what is happening around you.
They change with changes in external circumstances, so remember: you ≠ your emotions. The ability to separate emotion from yourself will help you assess the situation, make a decision and respond correctly.
For example, on the edge of a cliff, you realize that you are afraid and move away. In this case, fear will save your life. But in negotiations with an important client, he will interfere with collecting thoughts and focusing on the result. Realizing this, you need to push the fear aside and move on.
Mark Williams and Danny Penman define emotions in their book Mindfulness: “They are clusters of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and impulses. All the elements interact with each other and can enhance or dampen the overall mood.”
Any emotion can be accepted or rejected. At the same time, emotions cannot be suppressed. This will lead to neurosis and dissatisfaction with life.
Practice: draw a scale from 0 to 10 on paper.
Mark the level of fear on it, for example, 7 bars. Now increase the level to 9, and then decrease to 5. Try to understand your feelings and experience the emotion. Reduce your fear by another 2 or 3 bars, and get down to business that you were afraid of. This is the essence of emotion management.
- Self-monitoring
If you are aware and able to separate emotion from yourself, you will be able to control and express it correctly. This skill is especially important for leaders. To control an emotion, it must be expressed and spoken out loud.
Practice: learn to speak the language of emotions. Use a three-part phrase:
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I feel…
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Because…
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I would like...
For example, I am frustrated and angry because I did not have time to prepare a presentation for a new client.
I would like us to do it together, because the client is important for the company. Formulate several negative and positive emotions according to this formula.
Methods of non-violent communication will help to learn how to express feelings. Practice, over time it will become a habit. You will change your speech and reaction to many events.
- Social competence
Social competence helps to see the essence and cause of what is happening and not get involved in emotional battles. Make smarter and more informed decisions. To do this, you need to learn to understand what is behind the behavior of another person. This way you will prevent 90% of conflicts.
One's own or another person's reaction can be decomposed into meaning, action and intention. This will help to correctly interpret emotions and respond to them
One's own or another person's reaction can be decomposed into meaning, action and intention.
This will help to correctly interpret emotions and respond to them
When communicating with people, do not react to actions and words, but to the intentions and reasons that lie behind them. Any reaction and behavior can be decomposed into three components:
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Intention — the meaning, the true reason. A person may or may not be aware of his intention, but it will always be positive. For example, the manager yelled at you because he was worried about the results of the project.
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Action is how a person realizes the cause. It can be positive and constructive or negative and destructive. For example, you will insult a man in response to unacceptable behavior or explain your attitude and offer to behave differently.
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Meaning is the meaning you give to the action.
It is either positive or negative. For example, you asked a colleague a question, but he did not answer. Positive meaning - the colleague did not hear the question, negative - he does not respect you.
Practice: remember a few conflict situations and try to expand them according to this formula. Find positive intentions in your meanings and actions.
- Relationship Management
The emotion quadrant will help you determine your emotional state, use it or change it. This is a coordinate system from 0 to 10 on each axis. Below are the level of mood and pleasure - gray and green squares. Above are the level of energy and physical well-being - orange and yellow squares.
The Emotion Quadrant helps you determine which emotional state you or your co-workers are in to direct energy and mood for good
The Emotion Quadrant helps you determine which emotional state you or your co-workers are in to direct energy and mood to benefit
How it works.
For example, you didn’t make a presentation for a new client and you are worried because of this. Rate the level of mood at 3 points. At the same time, you still have a lot of strength, so the energy level will be 7 points. So you get into the red square "I'm worried." In this state, it is better to do active work that does not require an emotional mood: tidy up the house, take out the trash, cook food.
In the green square you are in a good mood but have little energy. In this case, learn new things: immerse yourself in a project or task, collect information. Do things that don't require physical activity.
In the yellow square, mood and energy are at their maximum. This is a good opportunity for brainstorming. Come up with new ideas and projects, mix formats and look for other solutions to common problems.
There is little energy and no mood in the blue square. Here you should look for errors and shortcomings. Figure out how you can improve your daily routine and see what else you can work on.
The Emotion Quadrant will help you channel your free resources to the right things. You will be able to correctly prioritize and give clear orders to employees.
How to determine the level of development of emotional intelligence?
The author of the book "Emotional Intelligence in Practice" Justin Bariso identifies 13 criteria for a developed EQ:
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Become aware of your feelings and emotions.
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Pause before speaking or acting.
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Strive to control your thoughts and reactions to emotions.
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Use criticism as an opportunity to improve.
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Stick to your values and principles.
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Know how to sympathize.
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Praise and inspire others.
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Give helpful feedback.
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Apologize and acknowledge mistakes.
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Forgive and forget.
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Fulfill your obligations.
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Help others.
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Protect yourself from emotional sabotage.
Victoria Shimanskaya adds one universal but subjective criterion - the degree of satisfaction with one's own life. Feeling is more important in EQ than skill development. If you can't ask for a raise for several years or get terribly angry when you clean your apartment, take a closer look at working with your emotions.
The hardest thing about developing emotional intelligence is getting started. It is not clear at what point there is an experience that allows you to further develop your EQ skills. Begin to carefully listen to yourself and catch the emotion: name, realize, reflect, listen to your feelings. Without this exercise, no books will get you closer to feeling happy, overcoming fears, curbing anger, and other tasks that we want to solve with the help of emotion management.
Emotional intelligence lives at the intersection of meanings and the body. Only by linking knowledge with physical sensations, you can turn it on and adjust your emotional apparatus. This means that our path is to work out the connection between the body and consciousness. To do - to fix, to feel - to comprehend.
To develop emotional intelligence
- Learn to be aware of your emotions and name them. Say out loud what you feel.
- Accept emotions and try to live them without prejudice to yourself and others.
- Learn to separate emotions from yourself. You are always more than one emotion.
- Seek and understand the cause of the emotion.
- Align emotions with current life purpose. Think about how they can help you and use them to your advantage.
- Try applying the EQ tools to other people.
- Get a special diagnostic to determine the level of development of emotional intelligence. Choose trainings, courses, books that will help you improve your skill.
Don't Follow Your Dream: How to Love Your Job and Find Yourself
You won't find your dream job if you follow your dream. This is the conclusion of Cal Newport, author of Stop Dreaming, Get Started! He advises to hone your skills in your current job and enjoy it
Cal Newport was an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received a Ph.D. in computer science. He planned to become a professor, but in 2010, due to the crisis in the United States, there were almost no jobs for research assistants.
The author understood that if he did not find a job, he would have to change his profession and start from scratch. Then he thought: how do people find their favorite job and why do some succeed and others do not.
Cal formulated the answer to this question in the four rules of the book Stop Dreaming, Get Started! The author is sure that the “dream job” is a delusion, the main thing is professional skill and the ability to invest the “career capital” accumulated thanks to this skill.
The belief “to find a job you love, you have to follow your dream” was actively promoted in the 1970 book “What Color Is Your Parachute?” by Richard Bolles. It was originally a collection for those who decided to change jobs, but the idea "try to understand what you love to do and find a job that matches" was innovative for 1970s. Balls recalled: "Back then, the very idea that work could be found with pencil and paper seemed absurd." This is how the dream theory came about: to find a job you love and be happy, it is important to understand what you are passionate about, and then find a job that will satisfy this passion.
For 40 years, supporters of the theory of dream has become more and more. As of 2010, more than 6 million copies of Balls' book have been sold. The phrase follow your passion (“follow your dream”) was often quoted after the release of the book, but in the 2000s the phrase was found many times more often than in 1970s and 1980s.
Google Books "follow your passion" citation index from 1970 to 2009
Psychologist Geoffrey Arnett believes that young Americans have raised the bar for job demands. “They want work to be more than just a job, but an exciting adventure. It served as a tool for development and self-expression. Revealed the abilities they think they have,” he notes.
In 2010, The Conference Board conducted a survey of Americans about job satisfaction. The results showed that 64% of young people are not satisfied with their jobs. This is the highest figure in 20 years of the survey. The experience of the generation aimed at the "dream job" was unsuccessful.
The more people searched for it, the less they loved it when they found it, remaining disappointed and dissatisfied with life.
In 2005, at Stanford Stadium, Apple CEO Steve Jobs advised alumni, “You have to get the job of your dreams. There is only one way to become an indispensable worker - to love your job. If you haven't found your favorite job yet, look, don't give up." And although Jobs formulated the dream theory, he did not follow it in his youth.
Jobs' speech at Stanford University (English subtitles)
Jobs himself studied at Reed College, a prestigious liberal liberal arts university. As a young man, he had no interest in computers or business, growing his hair long and walking barefoot. Jobs was fond of the history of Western civilizations, dances and Eastern mystical teachings. Dropped out after freshman year, but stayed on campus - slept on the floor and ate Hare Krishna food (similar to vegetarian, but with more stringent restrictions: for example, Hare Krishnas exclude eggs, tea and coffee from the diet.
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Jeffrey Yang, author of a biography of Jobs, writes that the former student was tired of poverty and returned to his parents in California. The guy got a job at Atari, a video game company, and joined the rural community. After a pilgrimage to India, he worked part-time in the local Buddhist community. In 1975, Jobs noticed that it was possible to make printed circuit boards for computers for $25 and sell for $50, and suggested to his friend Steve Wozniak that he do it. When Jobs came barefoot to sell the boards, the store owner refused to buy them, but offered to buy a fully assembled computer from Jobs for $500. Jobs jumped at the opportunity to make more money, and so Apple Computer was born. The author of the Jobs biography notes that the friends did not have grandiose plans to change the world.
Newport emphasizes that if Jobs had taken his advice and decided to do what he loves, he would have become a mentor at the Buddhist center in Los Altos.
Apple wasn't his passion, but through luck and Jobs's powers of observation, it got results. Years later, Jobs became passionate about his job, but not because he was looking for a "dream job."
According to self-determination theory, work becomes exciting if it satisfies three psychological needs:
- Independence and freedom of action - when you have the opportunity to independently decide what and how to do, and thanks to this you feel the significance of your work.
- Confidence in your professional abilities - the understanding that you are well versed in your business and will cope with difficulties.
- Communication with the team - the realization that your work is appreciated by employees, colleagues, users.
At the same time, scientists did not add to the list of needs the correspondence of work to passion. Newport believes that independence is very important and comes with the growth of professional excellence.
This is proved by the study of Yale University professor Emmy Wrzesniewski. She asked college administrators about their job satisfaction and found that experienced administrators had more job satisfaction because they had more leeway and self-confidence due to experience and seniority.
A wide variety of professions can achieve self-confidence and independence, provided that they are willing to work to acquire the necessary skills. Newport is sure that it is more important to work well than to look for a good job.
In his book, Newport distinguishes two approaches to work: the approach of the master and the dreamer. The master thinks about what he can give people, the dreamer thinks about what work can give him.
The dreamer's approach. He seeks to know himself and find a job that suits his personality. The problem is that to accurately answer the questions "who am I?" and “what do I really love?” it is forbidden.
You will constantly find new answers and feel the lack of something important in life.
The dreamer's approach does not take into account that success is achieved by hard work. There is a belief in society that the main obstacle on the way to a job you love is the lack of courage to give up “foreign models of success” and the fear of following your dream. Dreamers are sure that becoming a freelancer will automatically give them opportunities for creativity, independence and the ability to influence people's lives. But in order to find clients and such work, you need not only courage, but also professional skills that have real value in the market.
Master approach. Such a specialist thinks about what he can give to the world and accumulates "career capital" - rare and valuable professional skills. Newport cites an excerpt from an interview with comedian Steve Martin in 2007 as an example. At the end of the conversation, the host asked Martin to give advice to the young, to which the comedian replied: “Who needs my advice? I don't say what people want to hear.
They want to hear how to find an agent or write a script, and I keep saying one thing: "You can't help but notice someone who is really good."
Newport credits this approach with helping the comedian become a star. According to him, in order for his style to be recognized, it took ten years. “In the end, you gain experience, and it gives you confidence. I think the audience feels it,” says Martin. Cal encourages a craftsman approach to investing as much as possible in your work in order to become "a worker who can't be overlooked."
Jobs made a board for the Apple I, one of the best computers of his time, then added value to his work by investing money from the sale of computers in the development of the new Apple II. He created this value and in return got the opportunity to create, change the world, work freely and independently.
1983 Apple commercial in which Jobs introduces the Apple IIe
Mastery comes from hard work every day.
In this case, preparation, criticism from the outside and regular training are especially important. In the early 1990s, Anders Eriksson coined the term "meaningful training" to describe training aimed at improving performance. Research confirms that targeted training with a mentor helps to achieve success in sports, physics, dance and other areas.
Radio presenter Ira Glass only began hosting This American Life after proving the worth of his skills
Malcolm Gladwell writes the same thing in his book Geniuses and Outsiders, who formulated the "10,000 hour rule" : in order to achieve perfection in the performance of complex work, training is required for a certain time. It is generally accepted that the minimum time for such training is 10,000 hours.
Qualities that make work attractive are rare and highly valued. The law of supply and demand says that you can get an attractive job only in exchange for rare and valuable professional skills.
To gain access to more interesting, complex work, it is necessary to master new tools and “pump” competencies. If you want to find a job you love, think about what skills could be your "career capital".
Newport calls independence "the magic elixir of a dream job." The ability to decide for yourself what, how and when to do it is very important for a person.
Daniel Pink confirms the thesis in his book Drive. Based on the results of a number of scientific studies, Pink concludes that independence is the key to success in school, work, sports, as well as happiness in your personal life. Pink refers to the results obtained by scientists from Cornell University, which is part of the prestigious Ivy League.
Scientists followed the employees of 300 small companies, dividing them into two groups: some worked independently, others were tightly controlled. As a result, it turned out that "freedom-loving" companies grew four times faster. In another study, teachers were divided in the same way.
Freelance teachers were more likely to get promotions, and their students were more likely to get higher grades.
The importance of freedom of action and independence is confirmed by the cases of a new approach to work - ROWE - Results-Only Work Environment (“only the result is important”). Companies relying on ROWE do not have a schedule. Employees decide when they take vacations and leave for the weekend, how many times they check mail and visit the office. The main thing is that the work is done on time and with high quality. For example, at Best Buy headquarters, teams that used ROWE experienced a 9% reduction in layoffs.0%.
Funky Office brings together eight stories of Best Buy employees who worked on the ROWE system
Being able to decide for themselves what to do and how to do it makes people feel happier, more interested in their work, and more satisfied with its results . However, employees who seek independence fall into two "independence traps" :
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Real independence cannot be achieved without "career capital".
In the pursuit of independence, people quit their job or school, go into a new business - business, freelance, start blogs, but nothing comes of it. A new job does not bring money and satisfaction. -
Once you have "career capital", the employer will not want to let you go, as you become a valuable employee for him. He does not want to lose you, so he begins to discourage attempts to change his life and offers a promotion or conditions.
To avoid the pitfalls, only take on jobs that will pay. Newport proposes to use money as an objective measure of the value of accumulated capital. If it is enough to get paid and given independence, then you have accumulated enough. If you're offered a raise in exchange for independence, turn it down.
In the final chapter, the author reveals the last quality that makes the work attractive - the mission. The mission gives work a purpose, and life has meaning, directs a person’s energy into a useful channel and changes the attitude to work.
People who know that their work is needed get satisfaction from their work. It's one thing to stay up at the office to make a client earn more money, it's quite another to stay up at night to defeat the diseases that threaten people. In this case, the work gives strength, but does not take away.
The author cites the example of evolutionary biology professor Pardis Sabeti, who plays volleyball in the morning, teaches and researches in the afternoon, and performs at a concert with her rock band in the evening. Sabeti's mission is to rid the world of disease with the help of modern tools. She has worked patiently for years in the narrow niche of the genetic aspects of the treatment of infectious diseases in the African continent. Then she acquired "career capital" to find her calling and start using computers to fight ancient diseases. Thanks to a clear mission, Sabeti did not get lost among other students, she made her life rich and interesting.
It is difficult to formulate a simple noble mission.
To do this, you need to accumulate "career capital" and become a master of your craft. Newport proposes to look for ideas that will help formulate the mission within the framework of adjacent possibilities - at the intersection of the sciences of their field and the border of the present with the future. To see these ideas, you need to be at the forefront of your field, which again requires experience. It will not work to come up with a mission without based on it.
To carry it out, you need to start a number of specific projects. The author suggests taking small steps in the right direction, getting results, criticism and drawing conclusions. This will allow you to understand what to do next and in which direction to move. Try several ways to find the right one.
For example, Sabeti used powerful computers to search for cases of people developing resistance to ancient diseases. The project began to be mentioned in the media. To spread the word about him, Sabeti wrote peer-reviewed scientific articles for reputable publications.
They began to be quoted, drawing attention to the topic. So they started talking about the project, and Sabeti drew attention to the problem and herself.
So, how to find a job you love and become happy
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Stop looking for a "dream job". The main thing is professional skill, not the coincidence of your passion and profession.
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Choose a profession that is useful to people, where you can gain independence and “pump” your skills.
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Become a "worker to be seen." Think about what skills you need to improve in order to increase your "career capital".
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Invest it in new interesting work that will help you become stronger.
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Consider your preparations. Do your best work, and practice in your free time.
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