Table 2.

Implementation process and procedural steps for experimental and control groups.

Control group implementation process	Experimental group implementation process
The course “Instructional technologies and material design” (weekly 4 h/3 credits = 14 weeks), a 2nd year course of primary teaching in the spring semester of academic year 2018–19, was selected for the implementation of the program.
Since the structure of the course is predominantly practice-oriented, the theoretical foundations of the course were delivered to both groups for 1 month with the same content.
Both the experimental and control groups received 16 h (960 min) of theoretical training on the course content.
The control group received the existing training program, while the experimental group received a 40-h (2,400 min) training program focused on developing emotional intelligence through social and emotional learning.
During the first 4 weeks of the semester, all the theoretical parts covering the subject, objectives, and achievements of the course were covered. During these 4 weeks, the knowledge levels of the pre-service teachers were measured using quizzes and question and answer techniques at the end of each lecture, and areas for improvement were reviewed to solidify the knowledge.
In the control group, as implemented within the current education program, the individuals who were determined by lot for each week were assigned to the subjects within the units within the scope of the Turkish, Social Sciences, Science, Mathematics and Life Sciences courses in the curriculum developed by the Ministry of National Education for primary school 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades (For example; Science: States of Matter, Turkish: Synonyms and Antonyms, Mathematics: Angles, Social Studies: Production/Consumption, Life Science: Transportation Vehicles) were determined by the number of people and distributed to the pre-service teachers by lot. Until the end of the semester, each pre-service teacher prepared a lesson plan for the grade level of the subject they had taken made a short lecture addressing the same level and made a presentation using the materials they had developed for that subject.	During the first week of the 10-week process, the “sharing circle” was introduced and piloted, and all the rules for the process were explained to the students in detail.
	The implementation process started with the program introduction and was completed in 10 weeks.
	The eight emotional intelligence skill areas were distributed over the remaining nine weeks (communication skills were divided into two weeks due to the extensive scope of the subject).
	During the process, a focus group interview was conducted at the end of each session using a semi-structured interview form.
	At the end of the implementation process, a focus group interview was conducted with a semi-structured interview form consisting of questions that helped to reveal the knowledge, skills and positive and negative experiences obtained.
Materials were designed according to the topics.	Materials were designed according to the session topics.
Both the experimental and control groups were administered the Bar-On emotional intelligence scale as a pre-test at the beginning of the course (One semester = 14 weeks) and as a post-test at the end.