Why Soft Skills | Origin: LC130
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Developing Soft Skills in CTE --> Why Soft Skills
In what ways will reminding teachers about why soft skills are important impact teaching and student success? Take a few minutes to post your response and learn more from your peers.
The importance of soft skills vs. content knowledge; skills necessary for remote enironments; how 'Why' impacts what we do.
I will focus in reinforcing skills for remote staff and discussing the 'why' of our mission and vision
By incorporating soft skills into curriculum, students will become advocates of their education. Teachers will learn and grow within theirselves as well.
Beginning with the WHY is important to make sure students and adults understand the purpose of softskills and the role that the soft skills play in helping them be more productive in teh workforce and classroom.
No soft skills can equal lack of opportunity to display the necessary content skills that a student has. Soft skills can get you "noticed" more effectively than content skills at times.
Reminding teachers and staff about the importance of why learning soft skills is important will allow everyone to get to their own 'WHY' of being in the business of helping students be successful in life after high school!
I think that teachers spend most of their time trying to teach the technical skills that we sometimes forget that the soft skills are just as important. These skills are going to help the student get and keep the job because we know that we are teaching them the skills that they need to do the job.
Communicating the "why" involves developing and communicating a vision and rationale. Cear vision and rationale are important for driving any mission.
Soft skills get you the job and allow you to keep the job vs job skill level.
By reminding teachers about the importance of "soft skills" they can construct their lessons to include opportunities to model and allow students to practice them throughout the year. While skill attainment is an important part of the CTE classroom, the "soft skills" they learn will benefit every student regardless of what industry the choose as their career.
It provides teachers with an opportunity to devote time to soft skills. Supporting this time helsp them realize soft skills can be just as important as technicle skills and course content.
Soft skills are incredibly important to facilitate student growth in the classroom. Educators who do not practice the use of soft skills become the examples of how "not to do it" in the learning community.
