Emotional Intelligence
Plato claimed that all learning has an emotional base. The ability to express and control our own emotions is important, but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Imagine a world where you couldn't understand when a friend was feeling sad or when a co-worker was angry. This ability is described as emotional intelligence. Mayer proposed a model that identified four different factors of emotional intelligence: the perception of emotion, reasoning with emotions, the ability to understand emotion and the ability to manage emotions. Improving our emotional intelligence skills can help us in being effective throughout the day when we are guiding our students, making decisions, negotiating with others (teachers, parents, coordinators) and getting our daily work done.
As we know, it’s not the smartest people that are the most successful or the most fulfilled in life. You probably know people who are academically brilliant and yet are socially unsuccessful at work or in their personal relationships. Intellectual intelligence isn’t enough on its own to be successful in life. It’s true that your IQ can help you get into college, but it’s your emotional intelligence that will help you manage the stress and emotions when facing your final exams.
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