“If your emotional abilities aren’t in
hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your
distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective
relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very
far.” - Daniel Goleman
Ever since Daniel Goleman came out with
Emotional Intelligence (EI) it invited the attention of many people
internationally with Google hits of approximately 9.47 million results with
diverse contexts, including education, health, relationships and work. There is a growing interest towards EI in all
sectors as it is closely associated with leadership. In fact, leadership
success and effectiveness mostly depends on EI.
There had been a heated debate among various leadership scholars and
practitioners whether leaders are born or made.
Daniel Goleman’s EI cleared the debate and concluded that leaders are
made rather born as EI helps any ordinary person acquire leadership abilities
and skills and excel as a leader.
EI is essential in all industries as
we need leaders in all sectors. It is also required in the education sector
where educators have to handle emotions, feelings and egos of diversified
students in the classroom. The educators must be aware of their own emotions
and match their emotions with the students’ emotions as per the situation to create
compatibility and chemistry with the students to ensure effective teaching
takeaways. The educators must apply different strokes to different students as
all students are not alike in their intelligence levels and learning styles. Students
in the classroom usually belong to three categories - above average, average
and below average in their intelligence levels. They appreciate various
learning styles - auditory, visual and kinesthetic. Hence, the educators must change their
teaching style as per the learning styles and the intelligence levels of the
students. While delivering their teaching sessions they must take feedback by
observing the body language of the students in the classroom and change their
teaching methods and strategies accordingly.
To conclude, the educators must take
various aspects in view while teaching and training in the classroom i.e. catering
as per the intelligence level of students and as per their learning styles with
the aid of emotional intelligence to achieve the effective teaching takeaways
among the students and excel as effective educators.
"People high in emotional
intelligence are expected to progress more quickly through the abilities
designated and to master more of them." - Mayer & Salovey
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