Emotional Intelligences

There are 5 aspects of emotional intelligences. I will list the aspect and strategies for developing each aspect in my classroom.
1. Recognizing one's own emotions
I feel this category is best done by writing about how you feel. By having to formulate your feelings into words, you think about and understand what's really important to you. I plan on doing this in several ways. First, I like the idea of having journals where the students think about a topic or idea. It can be related to Math or not, but I would just give students a key word like Motivation and have the students write how they feel about it and what motivates them, etc. I also like the idea of having students do a similar task, but instead of writing, having them talk to their neighbor about it. They are still formulating their thoughts into words, but can also get other's opinions.
2. Regulating one's own emotions
When there's a conflict or a student is doing especially well or poorly, I will ask the students to take a minute to think about their emotions and whether how they feel. I'll ask them to think about how their emotion is effecting the way they act or perform.
3. Recognizing others' emotions
Maybe we'll have a moment each week where we look at different scenarios and as a class brainstorm how each party thinks and feels when something happens. I'll try to pattern these scenarios over things that are currently happening in the school.
This can tie together Recognizing own emotions and Recognizing others' emotions. We can have an activity where students are acting out the back and forth feelings of two people. They would explain how they feel and what they would do and then we'd flip to the other person and describe how they would receive the action emotionally and what they would do in response. This will most likely have to be done with a scenario type approach.
5. Motivating oneself
I'll have an activity where I'll list tons of different ways to motivate. I'll have the students contemplate what their biggest motivators and and have the class come together to try and think of different ways we can motivate as a class. This will be done early on and periodically throughout the year we'll evaluate how our motivation is going and what we can do to change things.

I know my ideas are still kind of vague, but it is a great jumping of point to come up with more concrete strategies and ideas. Even though I'm teaching Math, I like the idea of taking half a class or so each week and learn about things other than math like emotional intelligence and other things that will help in society in the future.