Development of Emotional Competencies as a Teaching Innovation for Higher Education Students of Physical Education

The objective of the work presented is to develop emotional competencies in higher-education students by following Bisquerra’s five-block model. With the methodological support of adventure pedagogy and gamification, students improve their emotional competencies, as well as the basic competencies of the degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and the specific ones of the subject. The proposal, which is entitled “In search of my Avatar”, aims to make sure that, in their future as sports professionals, they will be able to serve their customers in a fully competent way. The work presented proposes different activities of emotional education to work transversally in higher education, ranging from conflict management and the use of language to improve the relationship with oneself and with others. The proposal was developed for the Degree in Sports Science and for the subject of Physical Activity and Sport in the Natural Environment, but with certain adaptations, it could be transferred to any university-degree subject.

Teaching Emotion Regulation: K-12 Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices across the Curriculum

Students can gain a range of skills and knowledge from interactions in schools, including emotional competencies such as regulation of emotions. Teachers are positioned to support students’ development of emotion regulation in the social context of school. We sought to determine K-12 teachers’ sense of responsibility, preparation, engagement, comfort, and approach to teaching students emotion regulation. The quantitative and qualitative data we gathered from 155 general K-12 classroom teachers revealed a sense of responsibility, low preparation, varied engagement, and low to moderate comfort. We found differences by grade levels, school location, and teacher education level. There was moderate alignment between how the teachers regulate their emotions and the emotion regulation processes they teach their students. We share implications for school psychologists and suggest multiple directions for future research.

Social-emotional Competencies in Peruvian Educational Institutions

The socioemotional competencies contribute to the integral formation of the student as it unites the cognitive with the emotional; at the criterion of this study, two stages were considered to be approached in the school: the first one promoted an adequate coexistence of all the actors of the educational community, avoiding the situation of violence: the second stage will have to do with the effects produced during the health emergency by the COVID- 19. The main purpose of this study was to inquire about the academic literature on the subject of socioemotional competence in the context of Peruvian educational institutions. The method employed was a qualitative descriptive literature review. The results allowed exploring the topic from academic and documentary contributions. It was concluded that there is no consensus on a common term for socioemotional competencies; however, there is no doubt that the impulse given in educational institutions contributes to the integral formation of the student.