We got marks (not graded, just satisfactory or not) on behavior when I was in school, but this whole idea seems icky to me. Primary school children can be trained not to act out violent hostility--or, better yet, not subjected to it by being crowded together such that they always want to push one another away. They can't be trained to recognize (or, probably, feel) the nuances of other people's emotions, or their own; for that, they need to grow a few more synapses. What's described here is like the kind of rote learning through which a lot of my classmates and I did, in fact, learn math--which so many teachers have been taught was bad. Yet learning math by rote doesn't prevent people from learning the underlying concepts later on. Learning to talk about emotions by rote *can* have that effect.
On Feb 11, 2016 Priscilla King wrote:
We got marks (not graded, just satisfactory or not) on behavior when I was in school, but this whole idea seems icky to me. Primary school children can be trained not to act out violent hostility--or, better yet, not subjected to it by being crowded together such that they always want to push one another away. They can't be trained to recognize (or, probably, feel) the nuances of other people's emotions, or their own; for that, they need to grow a few more synapses. What's described here is like the kind of rote learning through which a lot of my classmates and I did, in fact, learn math--which so many teachers have been taught was bad. Yet learning math by rote doesn't prevent people from learning the underlying concepts later on. Learning to talk about emotions by rote *can* have that effect.