Teachers Emotional Intelligence Competencies on Student’s Academic Achievement

Abstract

Emotionally intelligent teachers are capable of being attuned to emotions of their students, empathizing, managing stress, and constructing an explicit learning environment. They are capable of handling conflicts, motivating reluctant learners, and modifying their teaching technique according to the required emotions of their learners. The teacher’s emotional intelligence competencies like personal and social competence influence on student’s academic achievement by considering student’s engagement as mediator have been explored here. The objectives of the study are: (1) To identify the personal competencies of teachers that contributes to students’ academic achievement. (2) To analyse the social competencies of teachers that contribute to students’ academic achievement. (3) To analyse the influence of teachers’ emotional intelligence competencies on students’ academic outcomes. (4) To evaluate students’ academic outcomes in relation to teachers’ emotional intelligence competencies through student engagement. The study is based on descriptive design using cross-sectional survey method to assess the teacher’s emotional intelligence on student’s academic outcomes through student’s engagement. The population comprised of school teachers working in different school type government, private, residential in Tumkur District, Karnataka. A convenient sampling technique has been used to collect responses from teacher’s sample size n=1000.The Primary data were collected through validated survey instrument. Teachers emotional intelligence competencies like social skills, empathy, and self-awareness has significant impact on student’s academic outcomes with the mediation factors such as student’s involvement in learning, student’s active communication, classrooms response under student’s engagement variables.