We can all have a clear idea of the lack of emotional management of teachers because at some point we lived with them. Teachers who scold their students and have no empathy. Teachers who punish them when they should say: If you need help, is that me?there and even face them.
This type of attitude is the result of an inability to manage emotions, something we were never taught, eer at home or at school, so achieving this goal seems almost impossible to achieve.
- Schools attach great importance to concepts.
- But very little to how to transmit them and reach those who receive them.
This article is not intended to blame professionals: most do their best and know. In many cases, the lack of emotional management of teachers increases the anxiety of facing a challenge that, in many cases, overcomes them.
Dealing with students who have problems at home, parents who do not attend meetings, or those who are very demanding and always seek explanations when their children come home with notes they consider “weak. “
The truth is that, for example, bullying continues to increase in schools (perhaps because more is detected), but who prepares teachers to deal with these violent situations?Few have worked on the emotional management of conflicting groups. I’ve been through this before.
Thus, this emotional management of the group begins with the management of their emotions. Teachers do not become machines when they enter the classroom, leaving their emotions at the door, they teach with their own expectations, but also with their own concerns.
On the other hand, many students abandoned because the motivation and conviction of their teachers has already run out, the influence of teachers is such that, if they change, students will benefit, so good emotional management by teachers has very positive consequences for students.
Teachers affect eternity; Can anyone tell you where your influence ends?Henry Brooks Adams?
There are 5 basic emotional management skills that, in this case, are aimed at teachers, to talk about each of them we rely on Salovey, who organized them the way we will present them:
“Students are like fresh cement, anything they drop leaves a trail. “Haim Ginott?
Emotional management of teachers gives them more resources to deal with certain stressful situations, so their actions can have a serious impact on students’ learning and well-being by avoiding disorders related to depression and anxiety.
In the same way we learn to better face the new challenges that a conflicting class can pose, an excessive number of students or their lack of motivation to learn.
We live in a society where we increasingly demand a value education and a more holistic approach to the many problems that can affect students, because teachers influence them more than they think.
Being a teacher isn’t easy and we see it every day. Too many classes, too many students and a constant agony to handle?Everything. However, it should be noted that a few years ago they searched these wallets with their own problems and said “no one understands me”.
That would be nice if instead of receiving condescending glances from the teacher, we received his attention; who would come to talk to us at the end of the course and say a phrase, just one, that would make us feel that he is not like the others, that pleasure if he remembered that he too was recently sitting in a chair similar to ours to learn.