Emotional Intelligence Training to Improve the Efficacy of Primary School Teachers

The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence training toward elementary teacher. The training given to increase the teachers’ efficacy in students’ engagement, instructional strategies and classroom management. There are three sessions during the training included identifying and understand the emotions of himself and others, identifying and understanding the impact of the emotion used in adopting decisions and managing the emotions of himself and others. Participant were 25 elementary teachers in Intan Permata Hati School. The result taken using the Teacher’s Efficacy Scale (Tschannen-Moran, M., & Woolfolk Hoy, A., 2001) before and after training to investigate the impact of the training. Overall the result showed that the students’ engagement has the biggest impact and emotional intelligence is significant increase teachers’ efficacy. The students’ engagement has the biggest impact

Thorns amongst Roses? Lived Experience of Philippine Male College Students Aspiring to Become Professional Elementary Teachers

There is a noticeable under-representation of the male gender particularly in the field of elementary teacher education. The main aim of this paper is to understand the lived experience of male college students aspiring to become professional elementary teachers. As phenomenological research, it involved six purposively selected male students enrolled in a predominantly female elementary teacher education program in a Philippine university. The data were gathered through online interviews and analyzed based on a phenomenological analysis framework. The following themes emerged: 1.) We hear discouraging stereotypes about teaching; 2.) We are passionate about educating the young ones; 3.) We feel that awkward moment in a room of females; and 4.) We have an inclusive learning environment. These themes are based on the individual textural and structural descriptions and form the basis for the composite textural and structural descriptions of the phenomenon of interest. This paper confirms the experiences encountered by males in the formal teaching career stage as relative to experiences received by males in the early stage of the teacher preparation. It also identifies factors that encourage males to enter elementary teacher education as a field of study, providing practical insights for designing a more inclusive program.