What is teaching? Emotional Intelligence?

On the classroom there is many information that we need to take in consideration for the assessment, in fact what I understand now with the term assessment is that it is the capture many things that occur in and out of the classroom that can lead us to know how much our student is learning, evaluation is to give a quantitative value to that information.

Trussell clearly states that teaching is much more that just give information to the student but it is to make sure of what is the student understanding both theoretical and practically a we as teachers can find in the information taken from the assessment the clues that can lead us to analyze what can we do about it, not by doing the same thing over and over but looking for strategies to the active and interactive learning on the student, as well as values and attitudes that the student has, for instance if the student believe in himself, the learning will occur in a normal and natural way (in most cases) and nowadays its recognized and accepted that thoughts and emotions are inter-dependents, which coexist and collaborate with the capabilities to comprehend and adapt and when we stimulate the development of the emotional intelligence we achieve better school performance as well as happy and healthy students therefore we can stimulate self-knowledge, self-control, cooperation, perseverance, communication and empathy. That way the student will learn to work within groups, learn to listen others suggestions, develop empathy for those with lesser ability, develop conflict resolutions strategies, expand emotional vocabulary, etc.

Pages 6-9 Trussell-Cullen Alan (1998) Assessment in the Learner-Centered classroom. California, USA: Dominie Press Inc
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