TEACHER EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE BETWEEN GOAL AND REALITY
Journal Title: JIPED- Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education and Didactics - Year 2018, Vol 22, Issue 2
Abstract
This paper attempts to highlight one of the most important issues related to teacher education – emotional intelligence. Our paper is organized like an action-research study on increasing the level of emotional intelligence as a professional competence for teachers. 147 teachers from Bacău County were invited to participate to our study which was designed like a two steps research: a). Evaluating the level of Emotional Intelligence of teachers - Rocco Mihaela version after Goleman Emotional Intelligence Test (form for adults); b). Based on the findings of the testing phase we elaborated a pre-service (and in-service) teachers training course to build their emotional ability. The main conclusion of the applied study was that emotional intelligence has many characteristics that should be turned into educational objectives, empathy being only one part of it. The teacher education program presented in our paper could be a useful starting point for decision makers, regarding the implementation of a realistic teacher education curricula in Romania.
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Elena SEGHEDIN, Anca ROTARU
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