How to sharpen the teaching efficiency of teacher educators?

For voyaging successful in any profession, requires possession of such traits as are essential, according to very nature of the profession, as far as nature of teaching is concerned, it exists in a context of social-interaction (Flander,1970). So, a teacher educator must become a professional who is capable of making rational, humane, and creative decisions concerning better management of social-interaction. It is handling of social-interaction which can distinguish best teacher educators from dull teacher educators. Adaptability, leadership, self-confidence and interpersonal skills are some of the most important factors which distinguish top performers from the poor performers, and that they have no direct relationship with so-called traditional intelligence, rather, they are related to the effective and intelligent management of emotions, viz. ‘Emotional Intelligence’.

This paper will be geared around as following questions- How can social and personal competency of emotional intelligence contribute in professional development of teacher educators?How can emotional intelligence of teacher educators influence and improve their performance at work place?

This paper will respond to aforesaid questions on the basis of obtained findings of an empirical study, conducted for investigating probable relationship between teaching behaviour and emotional intelligence.