Humans are beings created with emotional and logical thinking skills. Since people are mostly seen as machines in business life, it can be said that the feelings of employees are not taken into consideration or even neglected in these environments. In recent years, it has been realized that emotions play an important role in solving problems encountered in education. Keeping teachers in constant contact with students can enable students to use their emotions and thoughts at the highest level, increase their academic success, and even make them happier in life. In this research, the effect of emotional intelligence competencies of classroom teachers working in private primary schools on classroom management skills was tried to be determined. The research was carried out with quantitative method and stratified sampling method was used to determine the participants. The research was carried out with a total of 366 primary school teachers working in private primary schools in different provinces of Turkey. In the research, it was concluded that the emotional intelligence competencies and classroom management skills of the primary school teachers working in private primary schools were at a high level and that the emotional intelligence competencies of the teachers significantly predicted their classroom management skills.

Emotional intelligence, Classroom management, Classroom management abilities, Privacy primary school, Primary school teacher.