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Eva Tovar

Monique Williams

English 1A

September 2, 2013

Teachers’ Involvement and their Emotions

Throughout history emotions have been a huge influence in all individuals within society. “Feelings are contagious, good or bad.” (7). The SDT (Self-determination theory of motivation), which is applied in “educational psychology to study motivation and wellbeing”, has shown “academic motivation and achievement from students that find satisfaction of the three basic needs through emotional involvement…from teachers…” (462). Emotions portrayed by the teachers will always have impact on the students and will be of high influence towards the students’ academic performance. Often such emotions that outpour from the teacher’s mood, behavior or person will be applied on the student’s manner of conducting and reflected upon others, “disobedient student behavior, for instance, is more likely to be appraised as challenging and threatening when the teacher has internalized negative feelings about the relationship with the student and holds unfavorable schema’s of the relationship with the student.” (467). Although sometimes it’s not the occasion, not all students will cast back the same affection it is common seeing the same emotion bouncing back and forward within an educational relationship. Yet, teachers are only humans and have their ups and downs in life like any other individual out in society trying to cope with one another and life events. We humans try our best to not mix up our professional with our personal lives and try even harder to keep our emotions kept in place; however we tend to fail over and over again. As professional as it may get, teachers should bring from but yet again leave at home their emotions. When it comes to education negative emotions such as stress it can only bring conflicts within the teacher-student relationship, on the contrary when it comes to emotional discharges, or similar to, of passion for enlightenment during class lectures it can bring about the best from the students and teacher. The educational system should consider only hiring teachers with high objectives, teachers that will willingly pass on the knowledge on to others, teachers that will gratefully spend extra time with the students if necessary, yet best of all, it should consider hiring individuals that will share the joy of learning seeing that emotion is transmittable. A teacher’s satisfactory condition will always be the student’s wellbeing. Teacher-student relationships are of major importance and acquaintance for better success during development for knowledge. Indeed, instructors are responsible for teaching the students however that does not intend for the instructor to become fully responsible for absorption of knowledge into other individual’s capability. Students have the accountability to conduct the willingness to learn role. In addition to the students’ responsibilities they should be expected to bring out their best encouragement skills to induce the instructor with engagement and passion. In order for the instructors to feel inspired, not to just give lessons but rather teach, there must be an academic categorized affiliation because “According to the self-determination theory of motivation, warm teacher–student relationships contribute to teachers’ self-determined or autonomous motivation, which is primarily characterized by positive feelings” (467). Meaning that as an outcome of one contribution another act of benefaction will result, and so on the cycle will continue. Seldom do we ask ourselves whether society is approaching for education as we should. Often we complain on failure of our education yet we do not clarify who is to blame for such lack of success. We wonder whether to blame the teachers, the students, or the educational system for not hiring high quality instructors when in fact we should come up with a solution. We should all take culprit for such flop because education should be of high importance to everyone not just certain individuals. We should keep our passionate emotions to learn alive so we can keep our teachers alive and not blame the educational system for our own responsibilities.

Spilt, Jantine, Koomen, Helma and Thijs, Jochem. Teacher Wellbeing: The Importance of Teacher-Student Relationships. Educational Psychology Review. Dec2011, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p457-477. 21p. 1 Diagram.

Skye Ontiveros. The Passion Project.