. Your task for this assignment is to provide a written response to the following questions:
1. What aspects of elementary and high school did you find stressful?
2. What did your teachers do to make things worse or/and make things feel better for you in these situations.
3. What did you do to manage these situations? What worked best for you? How successful or unsuccessful were these attempts to manage your emotions in these situations? Why do you think this was?
4. What resilience (or emotional intelligence) skills could you work on in order to achieve your most important goals and avoid being swamped by negativity in certain situations?
5. How could you sustain your efforts in order to make a real difference in achieving the goals that are important for you, i.e. what would be your long term plan/strategy?
6. How will your theoretical knowledge of social and emotional development impact the ways you motivate your students? (or people that you manage in your workplace) .
