The Ruler Approach
Through a sophisticated set of professional development courses, the ruler approach is a program that teaches 5 key emotional literacy skills:
1. Recognizing
2. Understanding
3. Labeling
4. Expressing
5. Regulating
After one year, teachers who implemented the ruler approach reported higher end of year grades, better study skills, social skills and fewer attention and learning problems of their students.
The ruler approach uses the charter, mood meter board (shown below), meta-moments and blueprint as tools to help foster caring and engaging environments. They help to enhance academic outcomes such as increased vocabulary (to be more expressive), creative and critical thinking, reading comprehension, and writing, as well as social and emotional competence.
Through a sophisticated set of professional development courses, the ruler approach is a program that teaches 5 key emotional literacy skills:
1. Recognizing
2. Understanding
3. Labeling
4. Expressing
5. Regulating
After one year, teachers who implemented the ruler approach reported higher end of year grades, better study skills, social skills and fewer attention and learning problems of their students.
The ruler approach uses the charter, mood meter board (shown below), meta-moments and blueprint as tools to help foster caring and engaging environments. They help to enhance academic outcomes such as increased vocabulary (to be more expressive), creative and critical thinking, reading comprehension, and writing, as well as social and emotional competence.
This is a Mood Meter Board. Below is a picture of a Mood Meter Board in use in a classroom. Each of the colored squares is a 'mood'. Yellow includes moods such as cheerful, happy and delighted. Green includes moods such as optimistic, calm, humble and bored. Blue includes moods such as sad, tired and depressed. Red includes moods such as angry, mad and frustrated. Teachers instruct their students on how to explain how they are feeling by pointing to, pulling off or rearranging the emotions posted.
For more information and pictures of a RULER certified classroom, check out novofoundation.