RULER: How to teach Emotional Intelligence to children and adults

The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence created the following evidence-based approach for integrating social and emotional learning into schools. The mnemonic to remember them is RULER.

RULER helps us teach “soft skills” or the skills of emotional intelligence — those associated with recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotion. Emotional intelligence skills “are essential to effective teaching and learning, sound decision making, physical and mental health, and success in school and beyond”.

Resources

Find out more about RULER from the following resources.

ei.yale.edu/ruler/ruler-overview/

mountainview.asd20.org/ei/Pages/default.aspx

About the Author

Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin.

Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.

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