Emotional intelligence is a relatively new concept. Hence, it appears crucial to investigate its short-term and long-term effect on educational process. The primary aim of this study is to identify how teaching emotional intelligence affects the emotional competence of social pedagogue students by measuring their levels of emotional intelligence before and after training. For this, the Hall Emotional Intelligence Test was used. The focus lies on these aspects of emotional intelligence (emotional competencies): Emotional Awareness, Managing your Emotions, Self-motivation, Empathy, and Managing the Emotions of Other People. The results demonstrate a substantial improvement in all these measures. The present findings may be valuable for further research on emotional intelligence in education. In addition, the paper proves that raising teacher’s emotional intelligence is beneficial to teaching and learning.

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The article investigates emotional intelligence and the modes of its formation and development among future social teachers. The hypothesis: the use of interactive educational technologies in teaching humanitarian subjects among future social teachers in practical classes in the form of socio-psychological training (TPS) contributes to the development of emotional intelligence. Students at the Faculty of Social Sciences of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU after L.N. Gumilyovy) and students from the Faculty of Pedagogy at K.Zhubanov Aktobe Regional State University participated in the study. To achieve the goals, humane disciplines for social teachers used the SPT with the aim of updating students' creative potential, developing empathy and other components of emotional intelligence (EI). An analysis of EI indicators for subjects in the early and late stages of the study confirmed our hypothesis that the use of interactive educational technologies in teaching humanitarian subjects among future social teachers in the form of socio-psychological training (TPS) has a positive impact on o formation and further development of the intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of emotional intelligence.