Teachers as Early Social- Emotional Skills Apprentices: The Affective Self- Understanding Challenge behind the Chair

Abstract: This paper will focus on the Italian reality of the teaching world, and on the new theme for our State in particular: the social-emotional learning (SEL) linked to the role of the teacher. Examining the present literature that highlights some scholastic relational difficulties, we come to recognize the importance of some dimensions of working experience that can condition the well-being can bring discomfort to the teachers, and consequently to the quality of the scholastic reality. It thus emerges that taking care of relationships, is basic also in the world of teachers. Across a research that will start, we come investigate and to describe the emotional experiences lived in the classroom, using the narrative and reflective diary, thus improving a sense of affective self-awareness into the teachers willing to participate in the research, particularly in Verona