ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the reader to understand the role emotions play in learning, but what we do know can be successfully applied to the classroom. It offers a few practical solutions grouped into five broad areas: adaptability, mastery, relationships, support/feedback and regulation. These solutions can be applied to both teacher and student alike because there is a deep social and interpersonal factor to both teaching and learning. Teaching with emotions in mind allows us to retain a sense of purpose and humanity; it allows us to accept that each student in the classroom is a unique and amazing human being with complex needs and desires. Emotional regulation is another key ingredient in ensuring that students flourish. Those individuals skilled in regulating their own emotional responses adopt more adaptive cognitive strategies, including reappraisal, distancing and humour.
