Giving Your Students

Freedom to Fly:

Integrating the

Emotional Intelligence

into the Curriculum

We do not know whether our children will fly or fall. Yet to have faith in them—to give them wings and pass on to them the spirit of life---is to give our children the freedom to fly! ---Chris Brewer

Based on Chris’ book Freedom to Fly, this workshop gives you concepts and practical activities to build emotional intelligence. The activities are designed to be integrated throughout the curriculum by being taught as part of content areas such as science, social studies, geography, health and language arts.

The active-ities teach self–awareness, social perception and communication skills, and heighten expressive abilities. Using these techniques, emotional intelligence can become a foundation throughout your teaching, eliminating the need to address this intelligence as a separate topic area. Because the activities generally improve classroom behavior and atmosphere, classroom community builds and student motivation is enhanced.

Taking this dynamic workshop gives you and your students Freedom to Fly as you improve the classroom environment and build your student’s emotional intelligence.

You’ll learn:

what the emotional intelligence is and how to strengthen it in your students

how to teach communication skills and improve classroom interaction

ways to build student self-esteem while you teach your content and increase

student motivation techniques that increase student interest by showing content relevance

how to expand the emotional intelligence skills into the schoolwide community

 

Presentation Lengths:
50-75 minutes, 3 hours, 6-8 hours, 2-day, keynote

Grade Levels:
Early Childhood, 1-3, 4-6, Middle School, High School, Adult

Materials:
Freedom to Fly activity book

 

Chris Brewer has created in Freedom to Fly a powerful collection of activities to help students discover their own greatness. These activities bring more aliveness and meaning to subjects and can give students the confidence and self-worth that lead to a more successful and satisfying life.

Bobbi De Porter
President, Learning Forum/SuperCamp
Author, Quantum Learning