RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS AT SECONDARY LEVEL

The relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and teacher effectiveness has garnered significant attention in educational research. Building successful learning environments and encouraging student achievement require emotional intelligence, which is the capacity to identify, comprehend, and control one's own emotions while also having empathy for others. This study was quantitative in nature descriptive in method and survey technique was use to collect data. The total population is all government secondary schools in district Kotli was 1227. The researchers selected 300 students as a sample through simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire was used in this research. After ensuring validity and reliability the researchers personally visited the sample and collected the data. The collected data were analysed using the mean, frequency, percentage, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Through the detailed analysis, it can be concluded that emotional intelligence is significantly related to teacher effectiveness, with all p-values indicating a moderate correlation. It is recommended that fostering emotional intelligence in teachers can improve classroom management, student -teacher relationship and overall teaching performance.