"Instructional strategies that aim at fostering the interpersonal TSR have been largely overlooked in teacher education curricula. As Jennings and Greenberg (2009, p. 495) have observed, “the current educational system appears to assume that teachers have the requisite SEC [socio-emotional competence] to create a warm and nurturing learning environment, be emotionally responsive to students, form supportive and collaborative relationships with difficult and demanding parents […].” In fact, (socio)-emotional competence can be regarded as a competence cluster that requires training just like other teacher competencies. There is emerging evidence that TSR issues tend to evoke tensions and dilemmas accompanied by various emotions, particularly in beginning teachers, which reflects insecurity in regard to relationship issues (Pillen et al. 2013). Thus, reflecting on social interaction in the classroom and its accompanied emotions should be an important component of teacher pre- and in-service education programs, with a view to develop and enhance teachers’ (socio)-emotional competence (Garner 2010; Jennings and Greenberg 2009) (Hagenauer, 14)"