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Emotional Intelligence : How Important EQ at Work?

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"If your actions inspires others to dream more, learn more,  do more and become more, you are a leader" - John Quincy Adams - Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to understand and manage your emotions. The skills involved in emotional intelligence are self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. Recently, it has become a bit of a buzz word in human resources departments across the globe but researchers are saying that it is the time emotional intelligence be taken seriously. In this article, I would like to write about some questions that may come up from workplace, and how EQ will help people to deal with those problems, such as : 1. Sometimes, we are facing a bad day at work because of some personal matter, how we deal with that? Firstly, we should identify what kind of personal matter it is, and from who it comes? It is ours, or theirs? Because when we talking about workplace it should be done professionally and not allowed personal matters in

Teacher Competence

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"They are not my students, they are my kids" Many crucial issues come during the pandemic of coronavirus outbreak. Hundred of teachers, many of them have to teach-from-home for weeks. It needs a high competency to do a lot of things at the same time. Teacher has to  prepare the material to teach, make an assesment, and have a digital competency too. Meanwhile, they have their own kids at home, that need them as parents to accompany them to study. We can see who is really the professional teacher, when they have to deal with this difficult situation. Some of them have competency to teach in reguler class, but don't have the ability to teach online class. And for sure in this difficult situation with no preparation, they have to teach from home. Teacher competence always been measured as the quality of education itself.  What is the competency? Competencies are the skills and knowledge that enable a teacher to be succesful. To maximize student learning, teacher must have ex