Teacher's emotions

Nowadays, there are new theories that promote the fact that having good relationships is very important, most of all, when it comes to the teacher preparing his or her classes, adapting the lessons and managing his or her emotions, taking students’ emotional and social needs into consideration.
The very same way, the work of teachers has a very heavy emotional burden. As all kinds of professions that are involved with interacting with others, teaching has an emotional additional responsibility: teachers must know themselves and, at the same time, their emotional condition must be understood as well, because they can experience really strong emotions when working and this makes them particularly vulnerable.

Here you have a very interesting and short document about this topic titled “Teacher’s emotions in educational reforms: self understanding, vulnerable commitment and micropolitical literacy”, it was written by Geert Kelchtermans and published by the Center for Educational Policy and Innovation, University of Leuven, Belgium:

http://ppw.kuleuven.be/cobv/pdfs/Emot%20TATE2005.pdf