Building Emotional Quotient Students in Poetry Learning

ABSTRACT: Emotional quotient (EQ) is one important aspect that influences student success in every learning activity. The impression of learning is limited to knowledge that leads to the development of cognitive domains without considering the affective and psychomotor domains students have. As a result, student skills become unbalanced. Unwittingly, emotional intelligence actually has a role in shaping students’ learning skills and behavior. One of the lessons that can build students’ emotional quotient is poetry, because it must involve the elements of their feelings and emotions. The purpose of this study is to build teacher’s in-depth understanding of the importance of building students’ emotional intelligence in learning activities. This study uses a qualitative method to address existing problems. The result, in this study found a change in teacher perceptions about the importance of building students’ emotional quotient. The change in student learning behavior becomes more eager to follow learning activities also become one of the results in this study.
KEYWORDS: Emotional Quotient; Learning; Poetr