EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: WHY IT MATTERS FOR TEACHERS?

Emotional intelligence is deemed as one of the important aspects in educating a person to be balanced as a whole. The national philosophy of education (1987) outlined a number of key factors that need to be implemented in the education field in order to produce individuals that are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced. In the process of development in today‟s modern era, individuals encounter several situations, which later on result with creating various problems. The problems of adjustment occur because of the existence of conflict towards humans themselves, in order to fulfill the need of their surroundings. In education field, emotional intelligence has a large implication especially in ensuring the students‟ ability to compete in their life and self development. The teachers can play their role with helping the students which had been encountered with a high level of anxiety, by practicing an actively teaching and learning method in class, such as collaborative learning, cooperative learning and learning process based on problem.