The Effect of Moral Intelligence Teaching based on storytelling method on Temperament and Learning behaviors of Elementary Girl Students

Aim: The purpose of present study was to investigate the effect of moral intelligence teaching based on storytelling method on temperament and learning behaviors of elementary girl students.
This study was a semi-experimental research with two-group and post-pretest and follow up. Among all girl students of 2th grade of elementary schools in Ardakan city at 1393-94 school year, 36 students were selected by available sampling and randomly assigned in experimental and control groups. In study group, participants received 12 sessions of moral intelligence intervention based on storytelling method and control group received no intervention. Data gathered by teacher forms of EAS temperament survey (Buss & Plomin, 1984) and learning behaviors scale (McDermott & et al, 2000) and analyzed by ANOVA with repeated measures.
The findings show that temperament and learning behaviors of students in study group were improved than control group (p This results implied that of moral intelligence teaching based on storytelling method is useful for improvement of learning activities and temperaments of children.