Developing The Teacher’S Emotional Skills; Conceptions, Opinions And Strategic Directions

Abstract

The article deals with a complex topic in the area of interdisciplinary research, around the difficult issue of professionalization for the teaching career. Research on the development of the teacher’s emotional skills are one of our strategic goals concerning the pupils’, students’ and teachers’ transversal skills. In this investigative context, the article is based on previous research dealing with transversal skills, generally entrepreneurial and intercultural skills, as well as training self-management skills. The article is structured around two dimensions. The first section is devoted to the impact study and the conceptual analysis of key terms in the thematic field of the teacher’s emotional profile. The second-dimension deals with the investigative approach, consisting of an empirical research around a sample of 130 subjects (students in Education Sciences, teaching staff, school managers, experts). The main investigation tool was the opinion survey including several categories of items: the need for educational policies and training programmes to focus on the teacher’s emotional component; educational and curricular strategies on teacher training programmes from the perspective of the emotional profile; managerial and personal strategies for the development of emotional skills. The outcomes confirm: a) a high degree of awareness on the rethinking of teacher training programmes from the perspective of the development of emotional skills; b) the subjects’ involvement in strategies focused on self-knowledge, self-control, capitalization of their own emotions and the pupils’ emotions. These results confirm the research hypotheses and will be capitalized in further investigations regarding the development of emotional skills.