inspiring students through emotional intelligence

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

Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015

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

Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015

Mohammed Chadi, Qatar University 2015

Thank you

mohammed.chadi@qu.edu.qa