Final benlac

• Camera Flash Activity


  1. Group students

  2. Think of ideas on social skills

  3. Take picture depicting social skills

  4. Show pictures on screen

  5. Describe and interpret pictures

  6. Group explains pictures

  7. Reflect on activity
• Social literacy


  Development of social skills, knowledge and positive human values toward desire and ability in human beings to act and react positively and responsibly in a wide range of complex social settings
• Social literacy


  • Can be acquired through social process of inquiry, values exploration and social decision-making that relate to the acquisition of knowledge and understanding
• Social skills


  Aspects of social literacy involving good manners, communicating effectively with others, being considerate of others' feelings and expressing personal needs
• Types of social skills for teachers to demonstrate

  • Effective communication
  • Conflict resolution
  • Active listening
  • Empathy
  • Relationship management
  • Respect
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Interpersonal skills
• Improving social skills


  Focus on sustaining desirable attitudes and eliminating undesirable ones through modeling, role-playing and performance feedback
• Other ways to improve social skills

  • Behave as a social person
  • Start small if necessary
  • Ask open-ended questions
  • Encourage others to talk about themselves
  • Create goals for yourself
  • Offer compliments generously
  • Read books about social skills
  • Practice good manners
  • Pay attention to body language
  • Join a social skills support group
  • Stay up to date on current events
  • Identify and replace negative thoughts
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)


  Ability to recognize, understand and influence the emotions of others
• Strategies for enhancing emotional intelligence

  • Think about feelings
  • Pause
  • Strive to control one's thoughts
  • Benefit from criticism
  • Show authenticity
  • Demonstrate empathy
  • Praise others
  • Give helpful feedback
  • Apologize
  • Forgive and forget
  • Keep our commitments
  • Help others
  • Protect ourselves from emotional sabotage
• Recommended tools in enhancing emotional intelligence

  • Emotional Literacy Workshop
  • Emotional Literacy Museum
  • Mixed Emotions Cards
  • eMotion Cards
  • Biodots
  • Bingo Emot
• Someone has been excessively or wrongly controlling our actions, feelings and decisions in school, stop it in any right but subtle and courteous way possible
• Recommended Tools in Enhancing Emotional Intelligence
• Tools and strategies to enhance emotional intelligence in school

  • Emotional Literacy Workshop
  • Emotional Literacy Museum
  • Mixed Emotions Cards
  • eMotion Cards
  • Biodots
  • Bingo Emotions
  • Feeling Faces
  • Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment
  • The Zoo: Animal Workshop
  • Face Workshop
  • The Machine Transformer
  • Tower Building
  • Build Me a House
  • Internalization Activity
  • Mirroring and Unmasking Activity
• Ten Characteristics of an Emotionally Intelligent Person

  • Empathy
  • Self-awareness
  • Curiosity
  • Analytical mind
  • Belief
  • Needs and wants
  • Passion
  • Optimism
  • Adaptability
  • Desire to help others succeed
• Empathy


  The capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference
• Affective empathy


  Refers to the sensations and feelings that one gets in response to others' emotions including mirroring what that person is feeling, or just feeling stressed when he/she detects another's fear or anxiety
• Cognitive empathy


  Refers to one's ability to identify and understand other people's emotions
• Self-awareness


  The art of understanding one's self, recognizing the stimuli that he/she faces and preparing how to manage him/herself, both in a proactive and reactive manner
• Curiosity


  One's willingness to learn and improve. When one is curious, he/she is passionate and therefore, he/she is driven to desire to be at his/her best
• Analytical mind


  Being a critical thinker that analyzes and processes all new information that comes his/her way and see if they can extract ways to improve
• Belief


  The power of believing in one's self, both at present and the future. It is a matter of affirming that people and things in one's life happen for a reason and that everything will ultimately turn out to be good
• Needs and wants


  Discerning between things that one needs versus things that he/she just wants and establishing needs prior to fulfilling wants
• Passion


  The natural desire, instinct, drive, ambition and motivated love for a subject or someone. More so, it brings positive energy that helps sustain and inspire one to keep going
• Optimism


  Maintaining a positive attitude that may increase one's opportunities, improve relationships and think clearly and constructively
• Adaptability


  The important recognition and the ability to make or remake decisions in one's best interest. It is also determining when to continue his/her course, or when is the time for a change
• Desire to help others succeed


  Becoming interested and appreciative of the success and achievement of others
• People skills are patterns of behavior and behavioral interactions
• People skills


  Tools used to communicate and interact effectively with others
• Three sets of abilities in people skills

  • Personal effectiveness or about how one comes across with others
  • Interaction ability or how well one predicts and decodes behavior
  • Intercede easily or ability to lead, influence and build bridges between people
• People skills are the ability to accept, appreciate and admire others on a personal or professional level
• Good people skills extend to the ability to listen and empathize with others, as well as work toward common goals with them
• Descriptions of people skills

  • Ability to effectively communicate, understand and empathize
  • Ability to interact with others respectfully and develop productive working relationship to minimize conflict and maximize rapport
  • Ability to build sincerity and trust, moderate behaviors (less impulsive) and enhance agreeableness
• Almost 50 percent of classroom success lies on effective interpersonal relationships, while the other 50 percent lies within academic skills
• Strategies in obtaining good people skills

  • Good communication skills
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • The value of patience
  • Tolerance and understanding
• Ten Essential People Skills to Succeed

  • Being socially assertive
  • Crafting a memorable presence
  • Mastering communication
  • Sustaining lasting confidence
  • Being an excellent conversationalist
  • Being highly likable
  • Being exceptional at decoding emotions
  • Pitching ideas
  • Being charismatic
  • Being an influential leader
• Media literacy


  The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media
• Today, information comes through an interwoven system of media technologies. The ability to read many types of media has become an essential skill in the 21st Century. Thus, schools are greatly confronted with this challenge.
• Media


  All electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages through reading (print media), seeing (visual media), hearing (audio media), or changing and playing with (interactive media), or some combinations of each
• Media literacy


  • The ability to critically assess the accuracy and validity of information transmitted by the mass media and produce information through various forms
  • Also known as Media Education, it is the ability to realize that all kinds of media show a representation of reality
  • The process of accessing, decoding, evaluating, analyzing and creating both print and electronic media
  • Depicts experience of reading texts and designing hypertexts made possible through technology
  • Pertains to understanding how to use today's technology, how to operate equipment, use various softwares and explore the Internet
  • As a 21st Century approach to education, media literacy builds understanding of the role of media in society, as well as the essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for democratic citizens
  • Represents response to the complexity of the ever-changing electronic environment and communication channels
  • Critical evaluation of media requires the ability to analyze and disseminate various features to others
  • About teaching critical media management strategies, including ICTs in schools and learning centers
  • Includes the ability to perform effective Internet searches, awareness and respect of intellectual property and copyright law and the ability to identify truth from fake news
• Social media


  Websites to connect people and involve user-generated content, which is the hallmark of a social media site. It is sometimes called Web 2.0, which is currently a huge opportunity to reach target audience and increase online sales