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Soft skill and EQ

Soft skills and Emotional intelligence are very important in teaching, students is a customer and to win them; instructor has to understand and be proficient on these skills. This helps build rapport and trust.

Professional Skills

Not exactly sure as to what I'd like to post/discuss on this class. The name of the course is very misleading. Issues on attitude, teamwork and negotiation where not addressed. Yes writing and computer lit are an important part of a career but those fall under hard skills. Professionalism it's self is a soft skill. Soft skills are tricky to teach because they involve making adjustments to students personality and people skills. Issues can be discussed and situations can be practiced. But I believe the best way to teach it is through leading by example. All staff on campus should treat students with respect and in the most professional polite manner possible. Using correct speech, writing, and interactions with other.

EQ is important even in highly technical fields.

Ultimately, projects, etc. have to be proposed, presented, and promoted. It takes soft skills to do carry this out successfully. Please present your examples.

Managing and utilizing body language in the classroom.

What are your thoughts on the use and management of body language in response to situations that arise in the classroom?

ED205

I feel like I really got great things to help me on every page!Time keeping to prioritizing was great. Life long learner just knowing how to learn and I feel that all of us at some has to do a self assessment at some time in our lives.Cant say enough about this corse Thankyou!

Soft skills in the Classroom

How would soft skills be useful in the classroom.

Professional Development

the ability to deliver quality experience from corporate America has proven to be most valuable for many college students entering the job market.

soft skills

how effective are your soft skills.

emotional intelligence

It is a great opportunity to discuss emotional intelligence when teaching the Student Success course, it helps students to understand the importance of managing themselves and how they relate to others.

Was anyone else shocked by the percentages?

I was really surprised to see that the study resulted in 15% importance of Tech skills versus 85% for Soft skills. It makes sense, I suppose, when I stopped to think about it, but that number was a real eye opener. I've always sort of felt that soft skills were important for teachers, as we deal with people on a constant basis. It was really refreshing to see that those skills are appreciated in other industries as well! Very enlightening!

Emotional Intelligence

I knew or had heard about soft skills but I did not know much about Emotional Intellegence and how they are related. It is important for me to know how my or other people's emotions can influence the classroom. I like when the course points out that you want to control the emotions not the behavior in your classroom. Thanks for making me more aware of this!

teaching by way of computers

Sometimes this task can be easy but sometimes it becomes a real challenge to do. Some students do well with it while others tend to struggle.

Soft Skills

How do you test soft skills in the classroom setting?

What to do when a colleague uses your hand-out/materials

What if a colleague uses your hand-outs and other materials or adopt some of your procedures and present them as hers without even mentioning your name as source. Will it be more efficient to talk to the person or to just keep quiet about it.

Feel the subject and the student

If the instructor wants to be effective in transferring the knowledge, they must feel the knowledge they share and feel the ones they share it with. That seems to be the catalyst for a successful learning environment. In the classroom one of the ingredients are missing, the feeling for the subject matter or the feelings for the students. How can one achieve both if the work environment does not really cultivate those qualities? Monique

Learners with Desire

Todays learners must have a desire to push themselves to engage in further training,computer skills,self-management,and ethics to become the BEST they can possibly be!

Technology and today's student

Technology today makes students lazy. Immediate answers are at their fingertips 24/7. They do not learn materials for a life time of recollection, rather for a moment to pass a test. Anything that can be done, there is a YouTube video for and information on the internet. Students feel they can look up information at anytime; therefore long-term retention is lost.

Lead by Example

Instructors are role models that should lead by example. As an instructor you should display a sense of time management by starting class on time and ending on time. An instructors attitude should inspire and motivate students.

IQ and EQ

Hard intelligence and IQ is known by everyone. Same with me. I never thought of soft intelligence so important. But after going through this topic I realize that soft intelligence is very important in the daily life. The way we interact with students and other collegues is mainly based on soft intelligence. and success in the jobs and putting impact on students life is not depends on IQ only, mostly on EQ.So to be succesful in this respect we should be more focused on EQ then IQ.

Soft Skills for Instructors

I truly enjoyed taking this online program. I thought I knew exactly what "soft skills" contained, but, in fact, I learned much more about myself than I thought. I learned that I need to concentrate more on my own "personal" feelings, when discussing, teaching and relating to my coworkers on a day to day basis. I also believe, that "body language" has much to do with our "soft skills' as well as, our personal, verbal communication.