---
title: "Emotional Intelligence: A Pedagogical Superpower"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Ms. Ashima Dutta"
resource_person_role: "Therapist, trainer, and educator; current institutional affiliation was not independently confirmed in public primary sources"
vertical: "psychological-literacy"
module: "Emotional Intelligence (EI) for Faculty"
lesson: "Emotional Intelligence: A Pedagogical Superpower"
lesson_key: "emotional-intelligence-a-pedagogical-superpower"
source: "GuruSetu original"
source_channel: "GuruSetu"
---
# Emotional Intelligence: A Pedagogical Superpower: Highlights

**Resource person:** Ms. Ashima Dutta - Therapist, trainer, and educator; current institutional affiliation was not independently confirmed in public primary sources

1. Notice the emotional state you bring into class before it affects an interaction.
2. For self-regulation, name the feeling, pause, and respond deliberately.
3. Reconnect routine work to purpose, and take fatigue or the need for rest seriously.
4. Before judging a student’s behaviour, ask what part of the story may be missing.
5. Keep empathy, academic standards, and personal boundaries in place at the same time.
6. Give respectful corrective feedback.
7. In a difficult conversation, summarise the other person’s view before stating your own.
8. Emotional intelligence supports accountability through disagreement and high expectations.