Dr. Tabassum Rashid* and Antonella D’Amico**
*Effat University, Saudi Arabia
** University of Palermo, Italy
This workshop will consist of two sessions. During the first session, presented by Dr. Tabassum Rashid, participants will be presented with an overview, brief history and various theoretical models of Emotional Intelligence, followed by the most updated research investigating the relationship between EI and student success. The connection between classroom emotions and academic performance will also be scrutinized and various assessment techniques will be introduced and challenges discussed.
Part-II of the workshop will be presented by Dr. Antonella D’Amico and will focus on some practical activities drawn from the program “MetaEmotions at Schools", a program aimed at disseminating in the schools the culture of emotional and metaemotional intelligence (Mayer & Salovey, 1997; D’Amico, 2018), as facilitators of thinking and learning, as well as promoters of wellbeing and social inclusion.