Role of Emotional Intelligence in Teachers Professional Success

Abstract

Education being a lifelong process prepares an individual for a respectable future. In the entire teaching-learning process, the teacher is the lighthouse that guides the students to learn certain concepts facts, and figures from the prescribed syllabus for examination purpose but also help them gain good marks and results. They also make them capable of influencing the learning, principles, thoughts, values, attitudes & deeds of the next generation. This is possible only from good and effective teachers. So, a teacher needs to have such essential skills, personality characteristics, and behavior which can help him in creating a warm classroom climate, to promote enthusiasm, motivation, and interactive teacher-student relationship. Emotional intelligence of a teacher plays a key role in his successful career. Professional success of an individual mainly depends upon the combination of the two vital components, intelligence, and skills. Professionalism demands teachers to be innovative in their approaches, flexible in their attitudes and always upgrading themselves with the day-to-day development in their subject matter. All the same, they should be capable of recognizing the values of human potentials, understanding the different needs of students, and provide appropriate enriched environment for their wholesome growth. When the teachers are well equipped decorated in moral, emotional, intellectual, practical and professional communication skills, only then the dream of a learned society can be realized. The present study is an attempt to explore the role of emotional intelligence competencies in the professional success story of a teacher.