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https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v17i0.1581
Developing Emotional Competence for Teaching
Joanna Madalinska-Michalak
; Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw
Abstract
This paper evaluates a pilot programme designed to support the development of teacher emotional competence and reveals teachers’ experiences with emotional education over the course of their career. The design of the programme is based on the ‘EL4VET ̶ Teachers First: Using Emotional Literacy to Improve Vet Teaching in the 21st Century’ project. The evaluation of the pilot programme used a survey and analysis of the obtained data to explore the participants’ perceptions of the connections between the programme content and their work in schools. The findings suggest that the programme provides a useful framework for teacher analysis, reflection and emotional competence building to enhance their ongoing teaching practice at the classroom level. The issue of developing teacher emotional competence contributes to a wider discussion on the challenges and recent trends in the development of initial teacher education, induction and continuous professional development of teachers. It raises the question of emotional education for teachers throughout their careers and the recognition of the importance of creating and sustaining integrated professional learning cultures to support teacher education at the initial and induction phases of the continuum.
Keywords
emotions and teacher development; induction and continuing teacher professional development; initial teacher education; integrated professional learning cultures; learning to teach
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143234
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Publication date:
28.5.2015.
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