10/29/21; W06 BLOG: DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVITY

 

W06 BLOG: DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVITY

We understand by emotional expressivity the external display of emotions, whether they are positive or negative, people use their face, voice o gestures to express their emotions. In society, it is very easy to misinterpret people's emotions from one culture to another and emotional expressivity is one of the things that is more easily misunderstood than many other things in cross-cultural differences. It's very easy to interpret different ranges to misinterpret different ranges of emotional expressivity.

Emotions are very important and we need to work on them at school. Emotional education affects the development of students, since it encourages their motivation, predisposes them to more positive attitudes, improves their relationships and obtains better academic results.

As a teacher it is very important that you teach your students to manage their own emotions like control anger, know about fear, accept mistakes, have empathy, have good self-esteem. The relationship with others is essential and necessary that we help others our students to forge an emotional intelligence. For example, in the classroom you have to work a lot on empathy, which is the ability to recognize, understand and connect the emotions of others since in this way students become aware of both their emotions and the emotions of others.

Working on emotional intelligence in the classroom has many benefits, such as decrease anxiety, stress management, conflict management, improve self-esteem, more academic success, tolerance for frustration increases, emotional balance, less conflicto, improve social skills, more mental health, improve empathy, better prosocial behaviors and many others. That’s why this topi cis very essential to learn because we learn about our students and how to help them in a better way.