Emotional abilities among teachers

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International Journal of Development Research

Emotional abilities among teachers

Abstract: 

Many studies point to the significant role played by teachers' emotional abilities in promoting learning processes among pupils in schools. In addition, there is increasing awareness that these emotional abilities contribute to a pupil’s personal and social development. Teachers contribute decisively to the development of these abilities within the educational framework. In addition to placing emphasis on developing academic abilities and imparting knowledge, they are required to create a supportive educational environment that enables inter- and intrapersonal emotional processes to take place. In order to maintain educational environments such as these and contribute to pupils’ development of these abilities, the teacher will need to have a high level of self-efficacy and capacity for empathy. In the present study teachers from three school levels (early childhood, elementary and secondary school teachers) responded to both teacher self-efficacy and empathy questionnaires.Findings indicated that overall early childhood teachers exhibited higher levels of empathy and teacher self-efficacy than did both elementary and secondary school teachers. Interestingly, on the student engagement subscale secondary school teachers exhibited a higher level than did kindergarten and elementary school teachers.Our findings contribute to the growing body of literature emphasizing the significant role of emotional abilities in educational settings.

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