Role of Emotional Intelligence in Educator Training for Blind Students in Special Education Programs

Abstract

Introduction: The connection involving mental abilities and social competencies, as well as the challenges instructors face while instructing pupils, particularly kids having unique learning requirements, are not well studied.

Objectives: This study sought to determine if variations in the participant's levels of psychological ability and social competencies were connected to the problems instructors have while dealing with kids who have various kinds of special educational needs.

Methods: There were 225 instructors representing Polish institutions in the research group. The Interpersonal abilities Assessment and the Two-dimension Mental Health Assessment were used as sources of knowledge.

Results: Revealed variations in psychological abilities and interpersonal abilities just when interacting with kids who had mild to serious developmental disabilities as well as long-term medical and behavioral issues. The results indicated that kids' mental health or behavior may play a role in the challenges instructors report experiencing while being around specific groups of special education pupils.

Conclusions: These surprising results point to the need of providing instructors with highly developed soft skills that, independent of their work experience or location of employment may be very useful in job duties.