SKILLS ADJUST NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN COMMUNICATING WITH CHILDREN OF PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

Preschool teachers’ skill of adjusting negative emotions in communicating with children can be described as the ability to identify inappropriate negative emotions, thereby select and make effective modifications to ease or change these emotions in interacting with children. The results from a research of over 254 preschool teachers at 10 preschools consisting of public and non-public ones in Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City in 2019 proved that the extent of the skill related to adjusting negative emotions of preschool teachers in communicating with children was average. Therefore, four measures are proposed to support preschool teachers in improving this skill including to equip teachers sufficient knowledge on the skill of adjusting negative emotions, to instruct them practice the skill of identifying inappropriate negative emotions for the current circumstances, to guide them practice the skill of modifying these negative emotions, and to assist them in evaluating and correcting the skill of adjusting negative emotions in interacting with children