Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to analyze the correlations between the emotional intelligence levels of teachers and instructional leadership in classroom management. The research has been conducted in the correlational survey model. The population of the research consists of teachers of Turkish, Mathematics and Science, who work in public secondary schools in Düzce and its counties. "Instructional Leadership Scale in Classroom Management" developed by Kovaç (2011), "Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short Form" developed by Petrides and Furnham (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Deniz, Özer, Işık (2013), and "Personal Information Form" prepared by the researcher have been used as the data collection tools of the research. The SPSS 25. 0 has been used to analyze the data and Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient was calculated to find the correlations between the emotional intelligence levels of the participants and behaviors of instructional leadership in classroom management, which have been found to be statistically significant and positive. According to the findings obtained at the end of the research, the emotional intelligence levels of the participants show statistically significant difference depending on their age, professional seniority and major; however, they do not show statistically significant difference depending on gender. Furthermore, the levels of the participants' exhibiting instructional leadership in classroom management behaviors show statistically significant difference by age and professional seniority variables, whereas no statistically significant difference is found by gender and major. The aim of this research is to study the relationship between the teachers’ emotional intelligence levels and teaching leadership in classroom management. The research was carried out in the relational scan model. The universe of research is formed by teachers of Turkish, Mathematics and Sciences who work in the state high schools located in Düzce and their districts. The "Teaching Leadership Scale in Class Management" developed by Kovaç (2011) was developed by Petrides and Furnham (2001) and adapted by Sea, Özer, Light (2013) to Turkish by the "Continuous Emotional Intelligence Scale Short Form" and "Personal Information Form" was used by the researcher as the data collection tool of the research. In data analysis, SPSS 25.0 was used and the Spearman Order Correlation Score was calculated to find statistically meaningful and positive correlations between the participants’ emotional intelligence levels and teaching leadership behaviors in class management. According to the findings obtained at the end of the study, the emotional intelligence levels of the participants show statistically significant differences according to age, professional age and industry; but they do not show statistically significant differences according to gender. Furthermore, the levels of teaching leadership in the class management behavior of the participants show statistically significant differences according to age and professional age variables, while there was no statistically significant differences according to gender and industry.

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