Emotional Poverty In All Demographics

Introduction:

Welcome!!  I'm Brittany Dougherty, a teacher at Newark Valley CSD for 19 years, and a certified trainer for Ruby K. Payne’s Emotional Poverty program.  Payne is a leading expert on crossing socioeconomic lines in education and speaks around the world.

Emotional outbursts, violence, anxiety, and mental health crises abound in schools, and with school safety and ever-growing concern, this learning is more important than ever.  While emotional poverty is not a clinical disorder, it describes a set of realities that reach most of our students. 

Though “poverty” implies a financial aspect, emotional poverty exists across class structures – and is quite high in wealthy communities, too.  Payne concludes what most of us in schools know: “Environments create emotional poverty and emotional poverty creates poor behaviors” (2).  We need to teach students how to manage their emotions and teach teachers how to motivate good behavior.

But how do we change behaviors when we can’t change student environments?

Payne teaches us specifically how a brain functions and how students – and adults – react to stimuli.  With her tools, educators can motivate better behaviors without changing the outside environments.

Following Ruby Payne’s Model, I will:  

         Define Emotional Poverty and Explain How it Impacts the Classroom

         Teach How the Unregulated, Unintegrated Brain Functions and Leads to Explosions

         Teach What Motivates Bad Behavior – Internal and External Factors

         Demonstrate How Weak Bonding Attachment Leads to Discipline Issues

         Explain How to Change Behaviors by Changing Motivation for Behavior

   Discuss Emotional Noise in the Classroom and How Brain Structures Differ

         Educate Listeners on How Do Use These Lessons to Better Their Own Lives

Goals:

         To give participants a toolbox to encourage emotional growth in the classroom

         To lessen emotional outbursts

         To lessen the emotional stressors in the classroom to increase success

         To increase compassionate teaching and compassionate behavior

Teacher Participation for CTLE hours and Compensation:

While the podcasts can be listened to at any time for any level of engagement, any teacher who would like to use these podcasts and resources to earn CTLE hours, can earn the hours and compensation through the Tioga County Teacher’s Center as a book study! The book study through the Tioga County Teacher's Center will allow you a copy of Ruby Payne's text that is the focus of the podcast - Emotional Poverty in all Demographics: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom.  There are a series of discussion and review questions for each podcast. Completion and submission of those tasks will qualify teachers to earn $30/hour, for up to 8 hours of work and reflection.  Feel free to email me with questions, or to get your free copy of Emotional Poverty for the book study: bdougherty@nvcs.stier.org