Mapping the Landscape of Teachers' Emotional Learning Using the Teachers’ Attitude Protocol

teachers protocol landscape mentoring emotions SEL TAPSince modern teaching is an emotional rollercoaster, maintaining emotional, and therefore, social comfort in a school environment is a prerequisite for all educators when preparing and cooperating with teachers.Due to the nature of teaching, certain emotions are clearly more dominant, and the teacher's mental state is significantly affected by them.The current study, based on a mixedmethod approach, aimed to discover the types of emotions that accompany early career teachers at school.Furthermore, it landscapes a metaphorical map of the teacher's emotional development according to the teachers' attitude protocol (TAP), and the results imply that every stage brings distinct emotions affecting the teacher's mental state, which might be especially useful when mentoring young teachers.