Effectiveness of Soft Skill Training on the Emotional Intelligence of Scheduled Caste Prospective Teachers

Emotional intelligence is a learned ability to identify, understand, experience and express human emotions in healthy and productive ways. Emotional intelligence is known in educational settings as social and emotional learning. It affects directly to students learning. The present study aims at finding the effectiveness of soft skill training on emotional intelligence of prospective teachers.30 scheduled caste prospective teachers from Thoothukudi district were selected as sample for this study. Soft skill training was given to the samples for a week. The results of the study showed that the soft skill training is impacted positively on the emotional intelligence of scheduled caste prospective teachers.