What does EQ look like from a teacher perspective?
Top 7 most stressful occupations (Millet et al, 2005)
400-1,000 decisions per day
Intense degree of emotional labor
46% of teachers report high daily stress during the school year (Brackett, 2019)
Why Emotions at School Matter with Dr. Marc Brackett (Yale Center for EI)
Why EI should be taught in every school
Benefits of teacher & student EI in the classroom
What it means to identify, express & harness our feelings for greater satisfaction
How are we dealing with the emotional demands of our work?
Teacher EI plays a positive role in determining student academic achievement through improving the effects of students’ self-esteem and self-perceptions of ability (Curci et al., 2014)
Teacher EI is more influential than intelligence in enhancing student academic achievement (Srinivasan, 2015)
A correlation between students’ positive perception of a teacher and that teacher’s level of emotional intelligence was found (Barlozek, n.d.)
Improving and sharpening teachers’ emotional management skills has an effect on the development and improvement of students’ emotional management abilities (Polat & Ulusoy-Oztan, 2009)
"My desire is that my students leave the class feeling happier and better than they did at the beginning of class. You do this by rising above your more emotional self to be the much better person the students need you to be."