Personality Characteristics Attitude And Emotional Intelligence Among Secondary Level Teachers

The present book was designed to find out whether there were any differences in the personality factors, attitudes and emotional intelligence of teachers at secondary level in District Srinagar, J&K. The sample for the investigation consisted of 600 secondary school teachers, out of which 300 were males and 300 were females (150 each in rural and urban dichotomy). The data was collected with the help of R.B Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire, S.P Ahluwalia’s Teacher Attitude Inventory and Shubra Mangal’s Teacher Emotional Intelligence Inventory. This book is believed to help teachers, research scholars, programme planners, policy makers and administrators of the concerned field.

Teachers are called nation builders in every country and in every society. The role of teachers is of great importance. It is left to the teachers to inculcate personality characteristics, right values – the values of good citizenship producing law abiding and nation loving citizens. India has made considerable progress in school education since independence with reference to overall literacy, infrastructure and universal access and enrolment in schools. Two major developments in the recent years form the background to the present reform in teacher education – the political recognition of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) as a legitimate demand and the state commitment towards UEE in the form of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. The country has to address the need of supplying well qualified and professionally trained teachers in larger numbers in the coming years. At the same time, the demand for quality secondary education is steadily increasing. It is recommended that the aim should be to reach universal secondary education within a maximum of ten years. Given the problems of inadequate quality in most secondary schools due to poor infrastructure and insufficient and poorly equipped teachers, the need for addressing the professional education of secondary teachers acquires great importance. The education of teachers should be such that teachers should set an example and provide for their pupils the ideal of the citizens who is conformist, conservative and cautions. As for their moral character, righteousness, wisdom, honesty are among the adjectives which might be ascribed to them. Teachers should assist the students in their physical, intellectual, religious, social, emotional, spiritual development in the well balanced and harmonious manner and imbue them with human values, which is why teacher education today is an integral part of any educational system. In this study, personality traits of teachers will be analyzed in conjunction with their teaching effectiveness, in order to reach a better understanding of what makes a good teacher, and how to educate him to satisfy the rising demand of the Indian society.

In the book the author, Dr. Pooja Singh, argues that Emotional Intelligence of people was more important than their IQ, in order for them to have productive lives. People who were well adjusted emotionally were more likely to have better leadership skills, mental health and job performance. According to Singh, superior EI (Emotional Intelligence) was twice as necessary as skills and IQ required for completing a job. The skill could be taught in schools to enable the students to turn into stable employees and leaders in the future. The author also listed the methods in which, EI could be integrated into the school curriculum. Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even strangers, shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies, down to the level of our genes - for good or ill. In Social Intelligence, Dr. Pooja Singh explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a 'neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us. This book is explaining many important things of school life like social intelligence, Emotional intelligence, Social climate and emotional climate. There is growing appreciation that school climate - the quality and character of school life' - fosters children's development, learning and achievement. School climate is based on the patterns of people's experiences of school life; it reflects the norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching, learning and leadership practices, and organizational structures that comprise school life. The increased attention to school climate reflects both the concern for improving schools and the need for preparing students to address the myriad of challenges they will face in the 21st century. For the Students of BA MA Psychology, Social Science, Humanities, Education, All Students, Professors, Researchers and Post Doc Researchers, this book will help the Learners.

Emotion is one of the most important aspects of the human personality. This book deals with the role of emotional intelligence in teacher trainees across the globe. It emphasizes how emotional intelligence affects the level of aspiration and self-concept of teacher trainees, and shows that emotional intelligence is an important aspect in understanding the behavior of students. The school teacher should observe the students’ emotions and adopt a specific strategy to manage them for specific learning.

Highlights the importance of an emotionally supportive environment in the classroom. This book introduces educators and students in the education field to the concept of emotional intelligence as it relates to the classroom.