What is it about?
Research shows that Emotional Intelligence consists of a range of fundamental skills that enable school principals to facilitate the curriculum changes that are mandated by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and implemented by teachers in their classrooms. We argue that principals can just instruct teachers that the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) for example, is mandated by top management and that they have to implement it or they could use Emotional Intelligence skills to obtain their collaboration and commitment to implement the mandated changes.
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Why is it important?
A school principal needs to obtain the commitment of all teachers in order to improve learner achievement. Being a good teacher and having teaching skills helps but obtaining teacher commitment necessitates the use of personal as well as interpersonal emotional intelligence.
Perspectives
One has a subjective feeling that possessing skills such as the ability to understand the feelings of others and having self-awareness skills should influence one's ability to influence the relationship one has with others and hence their performance in the classroom. But having a perception and showing that it is indeed so is a different thing all together. This article is about showing that intrapersonal emotional intelligence impacts on interpersonal emotional intelligence and as such it a causal influence of one's interpersonal skills towards influencing teachers to strive for improved learner achievement
Professor bernardus Rudolf Grobler
University of Johannesburg
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This page is a summary of: Teachers’ perceptions of the utilization of emotional competence by their school leaders in Gauteng South Africa, Educational Management Administration & Leadership, February 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1741143213513184.
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