IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON TEACHER EDUCATORS’ EFFECTIVENESS

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Education in this century has become more complex than before. Rather the simple process of educating the pupil teachers, to develop their cognitive, effective and psychomotor abilities it is necessary to develop their teaching effectiveness. As the society is becoming more progressives, change has become order of the day and this transformation has influenced our culture and our education system. This rapid change puts lots of responsibilities on the shoulder of the teachers who are prepared and educated by teacher educators. An emotionally healthy, competent and effective teacher helps in national development. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand the emotions of the self and the people around us. Emotional intelligence is a sort of self-awareness that enables us to recognize our feelings and manage our emotions. An attempt is made in this paper to analyze the emotional intelligence of teacher educators and its impact on teacher’s effectiveness. The term emotional intelligence was popularized by Goleman (1995) who claimed that Emotional Intelligence “can be as powerful and at times more popular, than I.Q.” Research indicates that higher levels of emotional intelligence are associated with teaching effectiveness. Effective teaching requires a large number of skills and the ability to put these skills to use in different situations. Effective teachers can inquire into students’ experiences and build an understanding of learners' capacity to analyze what occurs in classrooms and in the lives of their students. Effective teachers know that good teaching is more than simply explaining, lecturing and discussing. To be effective, teachers must be emotionally sound. The findings of the study indicate that the female teacher educators were found to be in the category of most effective. The male teacher educators were found to be betters in emotional intelligence scale than their counterpart the female teacher educators of teacher education colleges. There exists a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and effectiveness of teacher educators. So, an effective teacher is emotionally intelligent.

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