​Emotion skills

• Understand the concept of emotional intelligence.

• Understand the connection between adult emotional intelligence and children’s social and emotional development and learning

• Know the characteristics of socially and emotionally competent people as outlined by CASEL

• Know the Four Resources as a conceptual framework to help develop emotional awareness and self-regulation skills

• Know the dimensions of emotional experience

• Understand how emotional experiences of the past can create “scripts” about the present

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Mindful awareness and stress practices

• Know definitions of mindfulness and interpersonal mindfulness as they are applied to the CARE model. 

• Understand the Wheel of Awareness, a visual interpretation and conceptual framework of how to apply mindful awareness to experience

• Know how to engage in a variety of mindful awareness practices

• Understand the purposes of a variety of mindful awareness practices

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Compassion practices

• Know how to listen mindfully with acceptance and openness

• Observe emotional experiences that occur while they are speaking or listening to others

• Cultivate feelings of being loved and extending feelings of love to others

• Know how to apply mindful awareness practices to challenging emotional experiences in the classroom