Emotional intelligence of teachers plays vital role in managing their own life and deal effectively with the feelings of others. Emotionally healthy teacher behavior is reflected in characteristic ways of thinking, identifying, managing and expressing feelings. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand own emotions and those of people around. The concept of emotional intelligence means persons have a self-awareness that enables to recognize feelings and manage his emotions. An effort is made in this paper to analyze the concept of emotional intelligence and compare the emotional intelligence of prospective elementary and secondary teachers’ on self- awareness, self - motivation, emotional stability, self- development, value orientation, commitment and altruistic behaviour components.