Session 5 Review and Reflect

Emotional Poverty Review Questions for Session #5

For CTLE and Book Study Credit through Tioga County Teacher’s Center

Submit to Brittany Dougherty

Chapter 5

1. Why is there such concern over addressing issues related to gender differences?

2. Using the female/male tendencies or patterns chart in Chapter 5, evaluate the tendencies or patterns. Do they reflect your life experiences?

3. Why do many males have difficulty verbalizing emotions?

4. Why do males often need more time to process emotions?

5. How will you change your discipline approaches for more effectiveness with males?

1. Who might the students and teacher bring with them to class every day? How might this impact what happens in the classroom?

2. What is the emotional dance that takes place in classrooms every day?

3. Compare and contrast emotional noise that is low and high. What are the attributes that create noise?

4. How does the bonding and attachment style of the student and the educator influence the emotional dance in the classroom?

5. How does the ebb and flow of the energy in our lifetime impact our ability to deal with stress? How does it impact classroom management?

6. How do the stages of adult development impact the emotional noise in the classroom?

7. Of the seven factors in adult development that are lifelong, which of those are most impacting you right now?