Teaching stages

Indicative questions asked by the teacher

1. Naming the feeling

How do you think the child in this picture feels?

What is the name of the feeling?

2. External recognition

How can you tell what he/she feels? How are the eyes and the eyebrows?

What about the mouth, or the color of the face? Etc.

3. Internal recognition

Do you remember a time when you also felt … (that way)? What did it feel like inside your body?

Did it feel warm or cold? Did it make your body feel tense or lose? How was your heart beating? Etc.

4. Causes of the feeling/Factors

What things usually make you feel … (that way)?

(And writing down all answers) Do these things make all of you feel the same way? So, do you think different people have different feelings for the same thing? Why do you think that is?

5. Usual behaviors for the expression of the feeling

What do you usually do when you feel … (that way)?

What else?

6. Estimation of these behaviors’ consequences

(After having written down all the given answers to the previous question on the left side of the board, the teacher draws arrows next to each reported behavior and asks what would possibly happen after applying the behavior) What would possibly happen if …?

Oh, and in that case would that make our feeling of … better/go away?

7. Effective feeling management

So, which behaviors do you think would be good ideas in order to express and handle our… (feeling) …?

Should we write them down separately, or draw pictures of them, in order to be reminded in case we need to?