Welcome to the Emotion Works

Primary Training &
Teaching Launchpad

This Launchpad is for Primary School Teachers & Practitioners to support you through your Emotion Works training and teaching journey.

The content has been organised into four sections to link in with our Primary School Award Programme as follows:

  • BRONZE LEVEL: Getting Started with the Cog Curriculum
  • SILVER LEVEL: 1 Cog-at-a-Time roll-out
  • GOLD LEVEL: Extending Cog Teaching through Literacy
  • PLATINUM LEVEL: Wider Curriculum Links
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BE INSPIRED!

Before you start, take a look at this example of Emotion Works in practice at Dunblane Primary School, Stirling

As a Primary Teacher or Practitioner – simply work your way through the Launchpad from top to bottom and left to right, pausing at the end of each section to put things into practice. Focus on the Bronze content initially, checking in with your colleagues and School Leads if you’re embarking on the Emotion Works programme as part of a whole school roll-out.

Here’s our Getting Started Teacher Checklist for the Bronze section and content to keep you on the right track

If you’re taking on responsibility for overseeing Emotion Works implementation in your school, or looking to be involved in applying for a School Award, we strongly recommend joining us for one of our monthly Implementation Training sessions. This training is also recommended for teachers who’d like to work towards becoming an Emotion Works mentor in their school.

At the training we’ll go over all the steps included in our  Implementation Checklist 1 for School Leads and help you see how easy it is to combine getting set up and started with Emotion Works in your school with achieving a Bronze School Award.

GETTING STARTED WITH EMOTION WORKS

This first section of the Primary Launchpad provides access and links to all the resources, training & teaching materials you need to get organised and started with your Emotion Works practitioner journey. Browse and click-through the first 3 module boxes to gather and prepare your resources and to engage with the Introductory Training & Teaching Content.

Before you Start

Teacher Assessment

Would you like to track your own progress or the progress of your team in building knowledge, skills and competencies for teaching Emotion Works and MEHWB in general? Keep your assessment on file for future comparison.

Introductory Training Recording

INSERVICE VIDEO

The Getting Started modules in this section are designed for working through in your own time as an individual or staff group. However, if you’d like to watch a video recording from our last Getting Started Inservice Training session, link here

Getting Started

Resource
Preparation

Get prepared for your Cog Curriculum Training & Teaching experience by gathering, sorting, downloading and printing all the resources you’ll need in advance.

Getting Started

Introductory
Training Module

Familiarise yourself with the Emotion Works Cogs and Primary Programme with our Cog Model training video, key guidance documents and training activities.

Getting Started

Introductory
Teaching MODULE

Put your Cog Model training into practice using our slideshows and activity ideas for introducing Emotion Works to your pupils at Lower, Middle and Upper primary level. 

Well done! You’ve completed the Training and Teaching content associated with our BRONZE Primary School Award. Your School Leads for Emotion Works can apply for your award when all Class Teachers have reached this point.

1 COg-at-a-time roll-out

Welcome to Section 2 of the Primary Launchpad which will guide you through your first full roll-out the Emotion Works Programme, 1 Cog-at-a-time. Open up and work through each of the Cog Module boxes, being sure to access the Training and Teaching Pages for each colour cog.

Rather watch a video? The modules in this section are designed for working through in your own time as an individual or staff group. If you’d rather watch a video recording with Claire presenting an overview of the 1 Cog-at-a-time approach please link here

Cog Calendar

Planning Your
Roll-Out

Once familiar with the idea of a 1-cog-at-a-time roll out, take some time to schedule how long you’ll spend taking a closer look at each cog.

Co-ordinating a roll-out as a whole school has lots of benefits and possibilities including assembly introductions, shared presentations of class work, contributing to central displays of work or classroom tours.  

Cog Environment

Classroom &
CommunaL DISPLAYS

As you plan your cog by cog teaching programme, make use of the display examples in the cog teaching pages to help you plan an area in your classroom for cog focused prompts and displays of work.

Don’t forget about your communal spaces too such as your assembly hall, school library, playground or corridors.

Cog Module 1

Orange 'Emotion
Words' Cog

The first cog module focuses on the words used in language to name emotions. Guidance is provided for expanding emotion vocabulary throughout the programme.

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Cog Module 2

Green 'Emotion
Behaviours' Cog

In this module teachers are supported to help children consider all the different ways emotions can be expressed using verbal and non-verbal behaviours.

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Cog Module 3

Red 'Body
Sensations' Cog

This module provides guidance on helping children bring to mind and talk about the different body sensations associated with different emotions.

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Cog Module 4

Yellow 'Emotion
Triggers' Cog

Learn how to teach about the concept of an Emotion Trigger to help children identify the things that happen to cause or ‘trigger’ emotional reactions and responses.

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Cog Module 5

Blue 'Regulation
Strategies' Cog

This module will support you to teach about the concept of emotion regulation including strategies for feeling better when experiencing unpleasant or uncomfortable emotions.

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Cog Module 6

Grey 'Emotion
Intensity' Cog

How do children come to understand and articulate Emotion Intensity? Find out what’s involved in quantifying and expressing how strong an emotion feels.

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Cog Module 7

Purple
'Influences' Cog

This final cog module covers information on when and how to teach pupils about the wide range of influencing factors that can shape emotional reactions and responses.

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Well done! You’ve completed the Training and Teaching content allocated to our Primary School SILVER Award. Your School Leads for Emotion Works can apply for your Silver award when all Class Teachers have reached this point.

EXTENDING COG TEACHING THROUGH LITERACY

Section 3 of the Primary Launchpad helps you take your next steps with teaching the Cog Curriculum and provides the teaching content required for achieving our Primary School GOLD Award. 

To revisit and reinforce Cog Model and Single Cog Learning, take a look through the ‘More Activities’ sections of our Cog Teaching Modules. Use the coloured links below to link back to the Teaching Pages, select the stage you’re working with and scroll through the Introductory Activities. At the bottom of each page you can open the Consolidation & Extension sections containing information and links to further sources of cog model and single cog teaching material in the EW Library, Recovery Programme content and the Emotion Works Literacy Padlets.  

To become more confident in using Emotion Works alongside your Literacy teaching, choose between our ‘1-emotion-at-a-time’ roll-out with ready-planned literacy content, or plan your own Emotion Works lessons and activities linked to stories, film clips or other literacy stimuli using our Literacy Planning Tools and examples. 

Well done! You’ve completed the Training and Teaching content allocated to our Primary School GOLD Award. Your School Leads for Emotion Works can apply for your Gold award when all Class Teachers have reached this point.

COG TEACHING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

By now you will hopefully be feeling much more ‘Cog confident’ about planning and delivering Emotion Works lessons of your own.

To help you become even more independent and versatile with your Emotion Works planning and  teaching, this last section of the Primary Launchpad encourages you to look at the breadth of the curriculum with your Coggles on.  

Wider Curriculum Links

THEMES & TOPICS

Take some time to look at the different areas of the Curriculum through a coggle lens while considering the themes and topics coming up for your class or school this session.

Are there any areas of learning & teaching that overlap with your Emotion Works goals & outcomes particularly well?

Do you have a Wider Curriculum practice example to share with the EW Community?

Wider Curriculum Links

EW Library

Looking for inspiration from teachers & schools across the EW Community?

Take a look at the following areas in the EW Library and Archives:

  • Practice Ideas > ‘Across the School’ filter
  • Recovery Programme Competition Gallery
  • Literacy Padlets (Wider Curriculum Padlet in development)

Well done! You’ve completed the Training and Teaching content associated with our Primary School PLATINUM Award. Your School Leads for Emotion Works can apply for your Platinum award when all Class Teachers have reached this point.

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