Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence: A Transactional Model for Elementary Education

Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students’ emotions. Teachers are increasingly charged with providing social-emotional learning, responding to emotional situations in the classroom, and managing their own stress, all of which have real consequences for their retention and student achievement. Focused on the primary/elementary level, this book is an accessible review of children’s emotional development, the role of emotions in learning, teaching, and teachers’ professional identity. The book provides strategies for teachers to foster their emotional awareness, use emotions to promote learning and relationships, foster emotional competencies in students, and stay emotionally healthy.

Elena Savina is professor in the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University, USA.

Caroline Fulton is a psychologist at Northwestern Medicine, USA.

Christina Beaton is a doctoral student in the Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program in Clinical and School Psychology at James Madison University, USA.