Description
Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students’ emotions. Teachers are increasingly charged with providing social-emotional learning, responding to emotional situations in the classroom, and managing their own stress, all of which have real consequences for their retention and student achievement. Focused on the primary/elementary level, this book is an accessible review of children’s emotional development, the role of emotions in learning, teaching, and teachers’ professional identity. The book provides strategies for teachers to foster their emotional awareness, use emotions to promote learning and relationships, foster emotional competencies in students, and stay emotionally healthy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Features of Emotions 3. Negative Emotions 4. Positive Emotions 5. Awareness, Expression, and Regulation of Emotion 6. Emotional Development of Children 7. Emotions and Culture 8. Students’ Emotions in the Classroom 9. How to Understand and Respond to Children’s Emotions 10. Dealing with Difficult Emotions in the Classroom 11. Creating an Emotionally Positive Classroom 12. How to Foster Children’s Emotional Competencies 13. Teacher Emotions in the Classroom 14. Teacher Identity and Emotional Well-being
