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WHAT AND WHY?
Study Based Evidence HERE
RULER
RULER
RULER is an acronym for the five skills of emotional intelligence:
Recognizing emotions in oneself and others
Understanding the causes and consequences of emotions
Labeling emotions with a nuanced vocabulary
Expressing emotions in accordance with cultural norms and social context
Regulating emotions with helpful strategies
RULER skills help people of all ages to use their emotions wisely, opening opportunities for us to succeed in school, at work, and in life. These skills are both personal and social, such that a network emerges with positive changes reinforced.
The Mood Meter enhances self- and social awareness and supports the development of a nuanced emotion vocabulary and a range of strategies for regulating emotion.
HOW?
After the adults in a school community have adopted RULER and can serve as role models to the students, they are ready to introduce RULER to students.
In early childhood and elementary school, RULER embeds into existing academic curricula. Middle and high school content focuses on the intersection of social, emotional, and cognitive aspects of early and late adolescence.
Teachers can use a Mood Meter Check In/Check Out system where students identify where they are, AND they will choose a strategy that will support them.
Primary: Tapping on a poster of the Mood Meter and Strategies
Upper Elementary-Secondary: Google Form
Teachers can check the Google Form to see what students they will need to support and check in with.
Students will Check In as they come into the classroom, and Check Out as they leave.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
BITMOJI MOOD METER
BITMOJI MOOD METER
Do you Bitmoji? Use this TEMPLATE to create your own!
1. Search for the images that you want to use.
2. Save them onto your desktop.
3. Drag them into Canva.
4. Place them in the center of each quadrant.
5. Print OR put into Google Slides for students!
MOOD METER VISUALS
MOOD METER VISUALS
Mood Meter Check In VISUAL.pdfPrint out these Mood Meter visuals for your students to reference in the classroom. They are the perfect addition to a Calm Space, or can be copied for students to have in their Go-Home folders to reference at home.
Page ONE: Mood Meter with visuals
Page TWO: Mood Meter with words
Teachers can push out the Mood Meter Check In form through Google Classroom.
Use the link to the left to make a copy of the form. Edit it to match your classroom needs, and start checking in with your students.
Are you using Seesaw? Have your students fill out the Mood Meter Check In by sharing this LINK.
Students will rate their level of pleasantness and energy, circle one word to describe how they are feeling, and then drag the strategies they will use to support themselves onto the Zone box that matches. Last, they can record anything they want to tell you.
Students using Google Classroom can use THIS Mood Meter Check-In. Push out each day, OR copy multiple slides and push out once for the week.
Students rate their level of Pleasantness and Energy by typing into the text boxes.
Then they will drag the circle over the word they choose to identify how they are feeling.
Last, they drag the strategy images over into the Zone colored Tool Box to show what strategies or tools they will use to support them.
Mood Meter Anchor Chart set up
Mood Meter Anchor Chart set up
1. Tell students that your level of pleasantness and energy can be +5 to -5
2. Have students act out/figure out what Zone (Quadrant) they would be in if there energy was at a (+3, +5), (-4,+5), etc.
After Student Participation
After Student Participation
3. Shade in the Zone (Quadrant) with colored pencil.
4. Pick different plot points in each Zone and have students describe how they would FEEL at that point.
5. Label their feelings around the Zone (Quadrant).
6. Move on to the next Zone.
(Yellow, Red, Blue, Green)
Watch Students In Action
Watch Students In Action
IMG_3458.MOV7. Push out Mood Meter FORM and have students fill it out.
8. Check the data, looking for strategies that students are choosing, as well as any information that they have written.
9. Check in with individual students as needed.
Elementary student activities to identify their feelings.
Students do a Mood Meter Check In throughout the day.
Make it fun with emojis.
Using the words "comfortable" and "uncomfortable" are great to explain the Social-Emotional Chain Reaction.
Students Check In on the Mood Meter in the morning and at the end of the day.
Use pictures to help students have a visual to reflect on where they are on the Mood Meter.
QUESTIONS TO ASK WHILE READING
QUESTIONS TO ASK WHILE READING
Use the stories that you are reading with your students in order for them to make connections to the characters in their books.
ANY book with a character who experiences a change in emotion or feelings will be PERFECT.
QUESTIONS TO ASK WHILE READING:
1. Where on the Mood Meter is the character?
2. How do you know?
3. Describe what their face/body looks like
4. What does their body language make you think/feel?
5. What strategy did the character use to support them?
6. If you were in the character's shoes, what strategy would YOU choose?
7. Have you ever been in a situation where this has happened to YOU? What could you do if that happens to you?
RESOURCES
WATCH HIM HERE
Dr. Marc Brackett
Dr. Marc Brackett
Watch his conference material to hear the WHY, listen to his personal stories, and watch him in action as he presents to teachers in order to CONNECT, EDUCATE, and INSPIRE.
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