ED 10 Building and Enhancing Literacies

Across the Curriculum

Module #6: SOCIAL LITERACY

GROUP 6
Quierre, Jaspher S.
Quisquino, Stephanie A.
Rafols, Josielyn C.
Timog, Ma. Nina Rica O.
SOCIAL LITERACY
It entails the development of social skills,
knowledge and positive human values
toward desire and ability in human beings
to act and react positively and responsibly
in a wide range of social complex social
setting.
It can be acquired through social process of
inquiry, values exploration and social
decision making that relate to the
acquisition of knowledge and
understanding( Arthur, Davidson and Stow,
2000).
SOCIAL SKILLS
Social skills are aspects of social literacy. As such, these
are an integral part of functioning in society. It involves
good manners, communicating effectively with others,
being considerate of others feelings and expressing
personal needs.
Social skills are also important in schools because
they help build, maintain and grow relationships of
students with classmates, peers, teachers, students and
others, while for teachers, with their superiors,
colleagues, parents, students, and others.
These can be attained through:
1. Gaining ideas, information, techniques and perspectives
from people with different areas of expertise.
2. Providing their own perspective for the benefit of others.
3. Accomplishing tasks and working together toward shared
goal.
4. Providing mutual support for difficult situations.
5. Expanding network to learn about and pursue new
opportunities.
6. Gaining feedback and referrals from people who can
personally attest to work, skills and qualities
7. making the school truly a healthy and conducive learning
environment.
TYPE OF SOCIAL SKILLS
There are types of social skills that teacher can demonstrate
among students to attain a harmonious relationship with them.

1. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
It is the ability to communicate effectively and share thoughts
and ideas with students through group conversations,
discussion, etc.
2. CONFLICT RESOLUTION
It is the ability to get to the source of the problem and find a
workable solution by weighing both sides from those involved
with the goal of mediating for reconciliation.
3. ACTIVE LISTENING
It is the ability to pay a close attention to a student in times of
counseling, introspection and consultation.
4. EMPATHY
It is the to understand and identify the feelings of students in times
of difficulty and trouble.
5. RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
It is the ability to maintain relationships and build key connections
with school stakeholders for the student development
6. RESPECT
It can be done by knowing when to initiate communication and
respond during interactions or even in times of heated arguments and
confrontations.
7. PROBLEM – SOLVING SKILLS
These involve seeking help, making effective decisions and accepting
consequences to derive better solutions to the problem.
8. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
These include the abilities of sharing, joining activities, asking for
permission and waiting for one’s turn in every facet of school
undertakings.
IMPROVING SOCIAL SKILLS
It can be improved by focusing on sustaining desirable attitudes
and eliminating those undesirable ones through modeling, role-
playing and performance feedback mechanism.
1. Maintaining eye contact
2. Using proper body language
3. Knowing the difference between being assertive and being
aggressive.
4. Selecting effective communication channels
5. Being flexible
6. Accepting criticism without being defensive
7. Remaining positive at all times
8. Being teachable and a good student in most stances
IMPROVING SOCIAL SKILLS
Likewise, other ways that may help are as follows:
1. Behave as a social person
2. Start small if necessary
3. Ask open- ended questions
4. encourage others to talk about themselves
5. Create goal for yourself
6. Offer compliments generously
7. Read books about social skills
8. Practice good manner
9. pay attention to your body language
10. join a social skills support group
11. stay up to date on current events
12.Identify and replace negative thoughnts.
IMPACT OF SOCIAL SKILLS
Possessing social skills results to:
1. Better relationships
2. Better communication
3. Greater efficiency
4. Advanced career prospects
5. Increased over-all happiness.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Emotional intelligence can bring about maintaining a healthy
and purposeful relationship with others that may best depict a
socially literate person.
Goleman(1996) defines Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as the ability
to:
1. Recognize, understand and manage own emotions
2. Recognize, understand and influence the emotions of others
it is being aware that emotions can drive behavior and impact
people positively and negatively and learning hoe to manage
those emotions, both one’s own and others when under pressure,
especially in times of
1. Giving and receiving feedback
2. Meeting tight deadlines
3. Dealing with challenging relationships
4. Not having enough resources
5. Dealing with change
6. Experiencing setbacks and failure
The school is a social institution established
for the contemplation of reality in a
profound, personal, informal and
unstructured way. Teachers facilitate
learning, teach students and model certain
types of acceptable behavior while
developing them in all aspects:
academically, physically, emotionally and
socially.
STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Goleman (1995) laid down ways of enhancing emotional
intelligence in the light of understanding and managing emotions
that teachers need to know and understand.
1. Think about feelings
A person has to be sensitive to one’s and other’s feelings to come up
with the right manner of approach or appropriate response.
2. Pause
It is about taking a moment to stop and think before doing anything to
refrain from resorting to an unsound decision at the height of anger.
3. Strive to control one’s thoughts
This is controlling the reaction to emotions by focusing on one’s
thoughts in harmony with goals and values.
4. Benefit from criticism
criticism, even not delivered in a favorable way, is an opportunity to
learn and it gives idea on how others think about you.
STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
5. Show authenticity
This is saying what we mean with what we say and we have to stick
on to our values and principles.
6.Demonstrate empathy
Whenever we show empathy to others, such as understanding their
thoughts and feelings, we can easily establish a connection with
them.
7. Praise others
It is by way of acknowledging and appreciating others toward
attaining self-fulfillment and building trust
8. Give helpful feedback
Although negative feedback may hurt one’s feelings at some point, it
can be turned constructive for one’s improvement.
9. Apologize
Saying sorry demonstrate humility a quality that will naturally win
others as you value the relationship more than the ego.
STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

10. Forgive and forget

It prevents others from holding emotions and allowing one to move
forward.

11. Keep our commitments

It is the habit of keeping one’s word in things, either big or small,
develops a strong reputation for reliability and trustworthiness.

12. Help others

One way to positively win others is through helping them because
listening to and helping them can build trust and inspire them to follow

13.Protect ourselves from emotional sabotage

This is being wise enough in protecting ourselves when others attempt to
manipulate our emotions for personal sake.
Recommended Tools in Enhancing Emotional Intelligence

1. Emotional Literacy Workshop

2. Emotional Literacy Museum
3. Mixed Emotion Cards
4. Emotion Cards
5. Biodots
6. Bingo Emotions
7. Feeling Faces
8. Six Second Emotional Intelligence
9. the Zoo Animal Workshop
10.Face Workshop
11.The Machine Transformer
12.Tower Building
13.Build Me a House
14.Internalization Activity
15.Mirroring and Unmasking Activity
Ten Characteristics of an Emotionally Intelligent Person
(Connors, 2018)

1. Empathy It is the capacity to understand or feel what

another person is experiencing from within their frame of
reference.
2. Self-awareness It is the art of understanding one’s self,
recognizing the stimuli that he/she faces and preparing how
to manage him/herself, both in a proactive and reactive
manner
3. Curiosity It is one’s willingness to learn and improve. He/she
is passionate and driven to desire to be at his/ her best.
4. Analytic mind It pertain to being critical thinker that analyzes
and processes all new information that comes his/her way and
see if they can extract ways to improve.
5. Belief It is a matter of affirming that people and things
in one’s life happen for a reason and that everything will
ultimately turn out to be good.
6. Needs and wants It is something to discern between
things that one needs versus things that he/she just wants
and establishing needs prior to fulfilling wants.
7 Passion It is the natural desire, instinct, drive, ambition
and motivated love for a subject or someone.
8. Optimism It is about maintaining a positive attitude that
may increase one’s opportunities, improve relationships and
think clearly and constructively.
9. Adaptability It is an important recognition and the
ability to make or remake decisions in one’s best interest.
10. Desire to help others succeed It is becoming interested
and appreciative of the success and achievement of others.
People Skills
Like emotional intelligence and social skills, people skills
have been widely used in demonstrating social literacy at
home, in school or anywhere that a person may be.
According to Wikipedia, people skills are patterns of
behavior and behavioral interactions.
For Thompson (2009) this is an area of exploration about
how a person behaves and how he/she is perceived
irrespective of his/her thinking and feelings.
Honey (2001) defines it as a dynamics between personal
ecology ( cognitive, affective, physical and spiritual
dimensions) and its function with other peoples personality
styles in numerous environments ( life events, institution,
challenges, etc. )
People Skills
In general , Portland Business Journal describes people skills
as (Rifkin, 2009):
1. Ability to effectively communicate, understand and
emphasize
2. Ability to interact with others respectfully and develop
productive working relationship to minimize conflict and
maximize rapport.
3. ability to build sincerity and trust, moderate behaviors
(less impulsive) and enhance aggreableness.
In general, people skills are an essential part of work, life
and social success. When one has strong people skills,
he/she is able to:
1. Pitch him/herself
2. Overcome social anxiety
3. Communicate ideas
4. Influence others positively
Strategies in Obtaining Good People Skills
McQuerrey (2019) presents the following strategies in
maintaining good people skills which are essential in a
meaningful , joyful and purpose-driven life that teachers
also need to know.
Good communication skills
Strong people skills in the communication area include the ability
to take in information, clarify comments and participate in
effective verbal and written exchanges.

Conflict resolution skills

Having the ability to mediate disputes and resolve
conflict among others is an important personal and
professional skill.
Strategies in Obtaining Good People Skills

4. The value of patience

Patience is an exceptional people skill that is valuable in every profession. It
involves being able to maintain an even temper, repeat and explain
information as necessary and control anger in even the most trying
situations.
5. Tolerance and understanding
Having tolerance and understanding for the differences of others leads to
success. Tolerant people have the ability to accept differences, even when
they don’t personally agree with them.

In general, there are 5 A’s to improve people skills, namely”

1. Acceptance
2. Appreciation
3. Approval
4. Admiration
5. Attention
Ten Essential People Skills to Succeed
The following is the list of soft skills for one’s self –reflection and examination.

1. Being socially assertive

Social assertiveness is essential for conserving social energy in the right ways.
People with high social assertiveness have more focused social energy and more
clarity in their interactions.
2. Crafting a memorable presence
People with great presence take it easy in making connections and are
extremely good at rapport building. Those with a strong presence can attract
others are well remembered and are likable.
3. Mastering communication
This is knowing how to present one’s self and, in turn get one’s message across.
4. Sustaining lasting confidence
people, who can sustain lasting confidence are able to conquer their shyness,
avoid awkwardness and get through their anxiety or overcome any nervousness
tendencies.
6. Being highly likable
Likability is an important facet of trust by through being authentic or
genuine with their true selves.
7. Being exceptional at decoding emotions
People, who are good at reading people, are exceptionally strong at
knowing how others think and feet.
8. Pitching ideas
Pitching is a very important people skill because it happens all the time
when one is asked for his/her opinion and in introducing himself/herself.
9. Being charismatic
Charisma is the perfect blend of two essential people skills trait such as
warmth and competence.
10. Being an influential leader
Leaders in both personal, social and professional life are able to gain
camaraderie.
Integrating Socio-emotional Literacy into the Curriculum

School that want to teach socio-emotional learning but confined

with classroom time can take a social, emotional and moral
inventory of what students are currently learning by involving
1. A person’s emotional life
2. An ethical dilemma
3. A situation calling for compassion
4. A societal challenge
5. The ethical use of knowledge
6. Cross-group interactions
7. An implicit prosocial concept
By integrating social literacy in the curriculum content,
teachers do not only give students opportunities to practice
their social-emotional skills, but also shoe them how integral
these skills are in their daily lives.

Hence, reviewing curricula through social, emotional and

moral lens is like a habit of mind that the more it is done,
the easier it gets. Obviously, the greatest benefit of
teaching lessons like these is that students can begin to
examine their education, their decisions, their interests and
their relationships through this lens, while helping them
cultivate a more thoughtful and discerning approach to life.