Teaching the Teachers: Emotional Intelligence Training for Teachers

Source: Teaching Education, Volume 25, Issue 4, 2014, pages 375-390

This paper describes a pre–post, quasi-experimental design study conducted to evaluate the contributions of a 56-h “Emotional Intelligence” training model.

The model has been developed and studied in an attempt to address educators’ growing needs to practice and implement “emotionally intelligent” learning environments.
The participants were one hundred eighty-six teachers from ten elementary schools in Israel.

Findings indicated an increase in emotional intelligence and empathic concern from the beginning to the end of the course.
Further regression indicated that both expression and regulation of emotions predicted empathy at the end of the course.
Participants’ reflective assignments indicated an increase in self introspection, emotional awareness, emotional regulation and understanding others.