Emotional Intelligence in teaching
GOOD TEACHING AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
TEACHER AND LEARNER’S BENEFITS.
Good teaching and Emotional Intelligence.
Teachers and Learners’ positive influences.
‘If a person just follows ‘mind’, then he is nothing but ‘machine’, If a person just follows ‘heart’, then he is just ‘tender’ (child), If a person is able to combine both, then he is emotionally intelligent, it means he is mentally as well as emotionally strong’.
-Sharma and Bindal-
Emotions are related to heart while intelligence relates to mind. Research has shown that academic intelligence has little relation with emotional life. Emotional intelligence (EI) can be at times more powerful than having a high intelligence quotation (IQ). While IQ defines how bright someone is, emotional intelligence defines the capability of using that brightness in an efficient way. The important difference between them is that IQ cannot be changed through experiences or education, whereas emotional intelligence can be learned and enhance through it. Rene Descartes stated ‘I think therefore I am’ and teachers have been following this. Today’s teachers put more energy into recognizing and working with the emotional dimension of learning, then, it is time to adopt another statement ‘I feel therefore I am’ (Mortiboys, 2005).
The concept of Emotional Intelligence may be the first time we hear it but has been around since 1995 after Daniel Goleman 's book, that explain how to success in our career. Nowadays is important because affects positively the academic achievement of students from the first day to the years to follow.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand our own emotions and those of people around us. The concept involves that we must have a self-awareness that would enables us to recognize feelings and manage our emotions. It is a learned ability to identify, understand, experience, and express our human emotions in a healthy and productive way (Mortiboys, 2005). But if
TEACHER AND LEARNER’S BENEFITS.
Good teaching and Emotional Intelligence.
Teachers and Learners’ positive influences.
‘If a person just follows ‘mind’, then he is nothing but ‘machine’, If a person just follows ‘heart’, then he is just ‘tender’ (child), If a person is able to combine both, then he is emotionally intelligent, it means he is mentally as well as emotionally strong’.
-Sharma and Bindal-
Emotions are related to heart while intelligence relates to mind. Research has shown that academic intelligence has little relation with emotional life. Emotional intelligence (EI) can be at times more powerful than having a high intelligence quotation (IQ). While IQ defines how bright someone is, emotional intelligence defines the capability of using that brightness in an efficient way. The important difference between them is that IQ cannot be changed through experiences or education, whereas emotional intelligence can be learned and enhance through it. Rene Descartes stated ‘I think therefore I am’ and teachers have been following this. Today’s teachers put more energy into recognizing and working with the emotional dimension of learning, then, it is time to adopt another statement ‘I feel therefore I am’ (Mortiboys, 2005).
The concept of Emotional Intelligence may be the first time we hear it but has been around since 1995 after Daniel Goleman 's book, that explain how to success in our career. Nowadays is important because affects positively the academic achievement of students from the first day to the years to follow.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand our own emotions and those of people around us. The concept involves that we must have a self-awareness that would enables us to recognize feelings and manage our emotions. It is a learned ability to identify, understand, experience, and express our human emotions in a healthy and productive way (Mortiboys, 2005). But if
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