Open AccessQualitative Evaluation of Emotional Intelligence In-Service Program for Secondary School Teachers
Author(s) -
Seval Fer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2004.1904
Subject(s) - emotional intelligence , psychology , focus group , qualitative research , perception , phenomenology (philosophy) , mathematics education , pedagogy , medical education , developmental psychology , sociology , medicine , social science , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , anthropology
This paper is an attempt to evaluate the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) In-Service Program on the basis of experiences of 20 secondary school teachers who attended the program in a private school in Turkey. A phenomenological approach, with a focus group method was used. The first objective of this study was to evaluate EQ program on the basis of teachers’ experiences. The second was to explore the teachers’ perceptions about the implications of EQ skills in classroom situations. The results were discussed in terms of the evaluation of the EQ program and its implications for learning and teaching activities in the classroom.