It
is designed to provide the basis for an interactive discussion around Emotional Literacy.
The program is part of a support process to develop emotional literacy in schools.
Resources are available to compliment TalkiT.
The programme provides the
opportunity for self-profiling and for peer profiles, teacher profiles and even family
member profiles so that the pupil can receive feedback from all different perspectives in
their lives.
Trials and experience with the
program have shown that the graphical outputs provide an excellent starting place for
discussion about personal awareness, social skills and the qualities that lead to more
successful life at school.
TalkiT
is a way of assessing the ‘softer’ side of school. The research that
underpins this CD-based computer programme, enquired into the factors that enable students
to do well at school.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the
students highlighted a range of characteristics that generally fall under the heading of
emotional literacy, as essential to being effective in the school environment. Their views
have been made into a questionnaire which forms the basis of the TalkiT programme. Graphs
produced by filling in the TalkiT questionnaire provide a ‘way in’ to talking
with young people about their personal and social development.
A Lite version of TalkiT is provided with School
Effectiveness: Supporting Student Success through Emotional
Literacy, by Dr. Marilyn Tew. The book is due out in
the middle of 2006 published by Lucky Duck/Sage.
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