Seven Principles
for
​Professional Growth

#3: Understand that Emotions are Central to Learning

The learning professionals within the learning environment are highly tuned to the learners' motivations and the key role of emotions in achievement.
  • Learning results from the dynamic interplay of emotion, motivation and cognition, and these are inextricably intertwined.
  • Positive beliefs about oneself as a learner in general and in a particular subject represent a core component for deep understanding and "adaptive competence".
  • Emotions still tend to be regarded as "soft" and so their importance, though accorded in theory, are much more difficult to be recognised in practice.
  • Attention to motivations by all those involved, including the students, is about making the learning first and foremost more effective, not more enjoyable (though better still if it is both).

See how Yukon educators
​Understand that Emotions are Central to Learning!

Click the blue buttons below to see examples of how emotions are seen as integral to learning.
How students become more confident, motivated, independent learners by practicing the design process hand-in-hand with traditional Gwich’in ways.
by Nicole Birkeland and Aaron Bailey 
Chief Zzeh Gittlit School
How to help students become independent, self-regulated learners engaged in 21stcentury learning.
by Jane Macarthur
Elijah Smith Elementary School
How to support students in becoming more engaged with their learning through choice and passion.
Amber Allison
Takhini Elementary School
How to connect a myriad of secondary school support strategies and services to ensure student success.
Camille Luks and Nicole Cross
Porter Creek Secondary School
How to take a collaborative approach to embedding Yukon First Nations ways of knowing and doing across the curriculum.
Monique Levesque
Selkirk Elementary School