Emotional Intelligence and its Necessity in Teaching Training

Emotional intelligence theory first introduced by Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 1990 was aimed to recognize place of emotions and passions and their important roles in different rational and mental actions of human beings. Different studies showed that the key of success is not just cognitive intelligence rather 80% success in life depends on emotional intelligence (Freedman, 2005). Considering the main role of teachers in training students, it seems that reinforcing emotional qualifications of teachers and including these qualifications in strategic plan of teacher training is inevitable. This paper is aimed to clarify scientific evidences about the basic role of emotional qualifications in improvement of personal, social, scientific performance of students and effectiveness and efficiency of teachers. It represents its relation with goals of present education and requirements for developing emotional qualifications in Education. It suggests that as a primary pedagogy, pre-servicing training is necessary for professional growth of teacher.