Welcome to the

EMOTION WORKS
ASN Launchpad

This ASN Launchpad is for ASN Teachers & Practitioners to support you make the best use of the Emotion Works programme when working with pupils with a variety of Additional Support and Wellbeing Needs.

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Before you start, take a look at this example of Emotion Works in practice at East Park School, Glasgow

Know Your Levels

The Cog Curriculum for asn learners

Earliest Level Programme

PRE-VERBAL LEARNERS & SINGLE WORD AAC

For ASN Practitioners working with pupils at the Earliest Levels of Learning & Communication

Foundation Programme

VOCABULARY & LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT

For delivering the Emotion Works Curriculum at an Early (Pre-School Equivalent) Level

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Primary Programmre

COG LEARNING & UNDERSTANDING

For delivering the Emotion Works Curriculum across CfE Early, First, Second Levels and above.

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

Developing Cog Confidence

1-COG-AT-A-TIME PRIMARY SCHOOL ROLL-OUT

Welcome to Section 2 of the Primary Launchpad where we guide you to plan and deliver a Cog by Cog roll out of the Primary Programme.

The training & teaching material covered relates to the Primary School Silver Award.

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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Next Steps on your Emotion Works Journey

EMOTION MODULES & Literacy PLANNING

In Section 3 of the Primary Launchpad we support you to make use of the links between Emotion Works and Literacy in your teaching.

Choose between our ‘1-emotion-at-a-time’ modules which offer a more structured approach for a while longer, or if you’re feeling ‘Cog Confident’, find out how to make use of a literacy stimulus in your Emotion Works teaching.

Both of the approaches shared in this section provide the training & teaching component of the Primary School Gold Award.

Key Documents for our

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK

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 versatile in your Emotion Works teaching, this last section of the Primary Launchpad encourages you to look at the breadth of the curriculum with your Coggles on.  

Additional support framework

New Blurb 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?

AS Framework & the
scottish policy context

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 allocated to our Primary School PLATINUM Award. Your School Leads for Emotion Works can apply for your next award when all Class Teachers have reached this point.

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