Soft Skills for Instructors | Origin: ED115
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Soft Skills for Instructors
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Soft skills are so important to all areas of careers.
I learned that people skills are very important.
Being able to interact with your peers is so important for a healthy work environment!
Soft skills and common sense.
Soft skills are an integral part of the business world and skills which are part of our Portrait of a Graduate at the high school level.
I learned that Soft Skills comprise People Skills and Workplace Behaviors, and that they are equally as important as Hard Skills.
Soft skills are important in the workplace. This involves people skills and workplace behavior. People skills include good communication and listening skills, providing feedback, maintaining a positive attitude, being polite and having integrity. The most important skills include common sense and dependability. Also important are utilizing the chain of command and adapting to changes.
When we model these behaviors to students, they are more likely to reciprocate. If we do not demonstrate these professional behaviors, they will be more apt to display disrespectful behaviors, as well.
Soft skills are used in a classroom on daily basis
Common sense is way more important than I realized
I have never realized soft skills are important than hard skills.
I think soft skills are more important than hard skills.
Soft skills are important, and common sense is not very common.
It seems to me that having people skills would be common sense but their is always opportunity for things to be better.
People skills combined with work behaviors are considered soft skills.
I learned that lack of common sense will impede some one from implement their soft skills.
Did not realize how much more effective people skills are compared to technical skills.
amazing that there isn't a class in common sense taught in junior high or high school? it should be a part of curriculum in k-12 and especially in career technical education. Covid definitely made common sense less common!
Comment on Monica Martinez's post: I agree 100%. students will emulate instructors also, so it is vital that we as instructors set the tone or bar.
I am always looking for ways to incorporate soft skills in my classes. I think they are so much more important than knowledge of a skill.
