inspiring students through emotional intelligence
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EI: The Forgotten Component in Teaching
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Human beings are emotional animals and their emotions play a critical part in learning and in life.
Emotion shapes and is shaped by cognitive processing.
Being able to monitor our own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide our thinking is, perhaps, the most important life skill.
Emotionally intelligent teachers are more effective than those who are not.
Some teachers are innately more emotionally intelligent than others. However teachers can develop emotional intelligencethrough ongoing learning and reflection.
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Main stream teaching approaches are informed by the assumption that cognition and emotion are two separate processes.
IQ is the predictor of student success.
Education is still grounded in the Cartesian school of thought.
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Think of any occasion when you were a learner that aroused strong feelings in you.
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
influencer
caring
inspiring
moral purpose
visionary
dedicated
people skills
passionate perseverant
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resonant
Five
Domains
of EI
Self-Awareness
Self-
Management
Self-
MotivationEmpathy
Handling
Relationships
(Goleman, 1995 & 1998)
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
What does it mean to be a good teacher ?
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Subject
Knowledge
Emotional
Intelligence
Pedagogy
(Mortiboys, 2005)
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Teaching requires constant interaction with students and hence a continuous interplay of emotions.
it is now recognized that emotions serve as a powerful vehicle for enhancing or inhibiting learning (Greenleaf, 2002).
Negative emotions can reduce working memory, thememory system used for holding and manipulating information while various mental tasks are carried out (Linnenbrink & Pintrich, 2000)
Effective and successful teachers are mainly those who can handle negative feelings in a healthy way.
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
IQ or EQ: Which one is more important?
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
In work he carried out at the EI Research Centre, Goleman identified that the ingredients of excellent performance was 70per cent EI and 30 per cent IQ. Covey supports this in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: "Research shows convincingly that EI is more important than IQ in almost every role and many times more important in leadership roles."
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
EQ=80%
EQ gets you promoted
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Every interaction with your students is an opportunity to convey that you are a caring teacher.
Be a source of inspiration to your students.
You are responsible for controlling the classroom`s emotional climate.
Praise the slightest improvement.
Let your students save face.
Keep reflecting systematically on your emotional intelligence effectiveness.
Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
Identifyingone`s and other person`s feelings
Identifyingone`s and other person`s thoughts.
Identifying the underlying causes of one`s and other person`s feelings.
Identifying / Reflecting on strategies used or might have been used to manage one`s and other person`s feelings.
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Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015
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