SOFT SKILLS

DR. R. SASIPRIYA
ASST. PROF. IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
V.O.C. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
THOOTHUKUDI.

SOFT SKILLS
THE SUCCESS FOR
PROSPCTIVE TEACHERS

Agenda
 Soft Skills – Over View
 Importance of soft skills
 Role of prospective teachers towards soft
skills
 Activities
 Ways to Greetings
 Pleasing Personality
 Positive Attitude

SOFT SKILLS
 Soft Skills refer to a cluster of
personal qualities, habits,attitudes
and social graces that make
someone a good teacher and
compatible to work.

Soft Skills vs Hard Skills
The technical skill requirements of a job (assembly,
labor, etc.)

Soft skills vs Hard Skills
Soft skill - is the ability required and
expected from persons for finding a
suitable job, its maintenance and
promotion.

IMPORTANCE OF SOFT SKILLS
 To communicate effectively.
 To have good impression and impact.
 To handle interpersonal relations.
 To take appropriate decisions.
 To gain professional development
 “Technical Skills will get you the interview,
but it’s the soft skills that get you the job”

SOFT SKILLS
 Actively listen.
 Effectively communicate.
 Participate as a team member.
 Build and lead teams or groups.
 Adapt to volatile environments.
 Use resources effectively and creatively.
 Effectively present persuasive arguments.
 Motivate oneself and others.
 Qualitative in nature.

GOOD SOFT SKILLS…
Will help you STAND OUT
in a crowd of mediocrity.

What happens when you don’t possess
soft skills?
 Lack of satisfaction
 Less / no respect in society
 Poor influence in groups
 Lack of appreciation & Recognition
 Criticism at all levels of life.

MYTHS
 Women are better at soft skills.
 It’s too difficult to learn.
 Where do I start.
 I need to certify myself on soft skills.

SOFT SKILLS
 Basic skills
 People skills
 Personal skills
 Thinking skills

BASIC SKILS
 Reading
 Writing
 Mathematics
 Speaking
 Listening

PEOPLE SKILLS
 Social
 Negotiation
 Leadership
 Team work
 Cultural Diversity

PERSONAL SKILLS
 Self-Esteem
 Self-Management
 Responsibility

THINKING SKILLS
 Creative Thinking
 Problem-Solving
 Decision Making
 Visualization

TO IMPROVE SOFT SKILLS
 Look for opportunities to interact with others
 Volunteer
– This will expose you to people with different
backgrounds and experience
 Teaching
– Learn to adapt the way you explain things to
people of different ability levels
 Select different people to work with
– With group projects, find a new group
 Learn & Practice or join Courses

ROLE OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS
TOWARDS SOFT SKILLS
 The present-day prospective teachers need to
concentrate on improving language efficiency and
soft skills by making use of real life situations as
teaching material.
 For this, a more creative, analytical, logic-oriented
and interactive method of teaching should be
adopted.

SUGGESSION
 Methodology of teaching
 Classroom Management
 Assessment and Evaluation

CHANGE IN TEACHING
METHODOLOGY
 The teacher should assess the strengths and
weaknesses of individual students.
 The teacher should explore and experiment
various methods of teaching to address the
different needs.
 To make students practice, practice and more
practice.

CHANGE IN TEACHING
METHODOLOGY
 An Array of issues, problem solving topics, and
varied situations which the students are likely to
encounter in their work place can be manipulated
appropriately in a class room.
 Conducting individual/pair/group task based
activities like debates, group discussions, case
analyses, role plays, business games and so on.
 Media and video shows can also be effectively used
to improve listening comprehension, critical analysis
and for presenting model

CHANGE IN TEACHING
METHODOLOGY
 Create the right ambience and make the class
room very informal, interesting, and interactive.
The methodology should also offer the teachers
scope to observe, listen, evaluate and provide
feedback.

CNANGE IN CLASS ROOM
MANAGEMENT
 Moving away from the practice of lecture
method .
 Manage properly the task/activity-based
classroom and facilitate higher-order thinking
by concentrating on the following two aspects:
1. Students Participation
2. Time management

CHANGE IN ASSESSMENT AND
EVALUATION
CONTINUOUS BASIS, INVOLVING THE
FOLLOWING:
 Interest/attitude
 Active participation
 Team spirit
 Assertiveness
 Presentation skills
 Communication skills
 Problem-solving Competence

CHANGE IN ASSESSMENT AND
EVALUATION
 Assessment And Evaluation Can Be
Accomplished At Three Levels:
 Self
 Peer
 Teacher

Activities

WAYS TO GREET EACH OTHER
Good
morning!(afternoon,eve
ning)
How do you do? How are You?
Nice to see you! Pleased to see you! Good to see You!
What a pleasant
surprise
Haven’t seen you for
sometime!
Long time no see!

HOW ARE YOU?
How are things
with you?
How are you
doing ?
How is
Everthing
How have you
been?
How are you
keeping?
How are you
getting on?

RESPONSES TO HOW ARE YOU?
Fine. Thank You . And You?
Very Well, Thanks, And You?
Not too bad .Thanks.
Just so so
Same as usual.

BASIC RULES OF GREETINGS
First
impressions are
made
Trust is
Established
Assumptions
are made
All relationships
begin with
Greetings
Polite and
Thougful
Makes the
Atmosphere
Healthy

INFORMAL GREETING AND
GOOD BYES
Hey. Hi
How are ya
How are things
How’s it going
How ya doing
What’s up
What’s happening
I’m good.All right
Pretty good
All right.
Not Bad
Nothing Much.
Nothing Specialngs
Nice meeting you
Take care
Take it ezcy
I’m off
So long
See ya

FORMAL GREETING EXPRESSIONS
1.I am Sasipriya
e.g My name is sasipriya
2. Nice to meet You!
 (I’m) pleased to meet you
 I’m Glad to meet you
 It’s a pleasure to meet you
 It’s my honour to meet you

3. Have you two met?
 Do you know each other?
 May I introduce you to him?
4.He is Our HOD
 He is in charge of meeting in our department.
5.May I introduce you to Ms .Raims?
 Please allow me to introduce you to Ms.Raims
 Please let me introduce you to Ms. Raims.

WHAT IS A PLEASING
PERSONALITY?
Pleasing Personality means those who come in contact
with you and would like to remain in your institution.
It is very natural that every living being wants to be
loved, needed, wanted or missed when not present.
With little effort on your part, you can transform
yourself into a Pleasing Personality. A sought after
person.

Ways to Create a Pleasing Personality
Good
Listener
Interest
in others
Cheerful
ness
&Enthusi
asm
Hold
your
temper
Helpful,
Kind &
Generou
s
Thanks
&
Gratitude

DEFINITION – ATTITUDE
 Attitude is a mental position relative to a way of
thinking or being positive attitude & Positive thinking.
 If you think you can, you’re Right
 If you think you can’t, you’re right again
 It’s all a ,matter of Attitude.
 The power to choose your attitude lies with you
 The choice of attitude can decide the outcome of your
life

BENEFITS OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE
 Helps achieving goals and attain success
 Success achieved faster & more easily
 More Happiness
 More Energy
 Greater inner power & strength
 Ability to inspirer &motivate yourself & others
 Ability to surmount any difficulty
 Life smiles at you
 People respect you

ATTITUDE REFLECTS LEADERSHIP
Inspires People
Care &Empathy
Enthusiastic
Reflects Maturity
Admiration
Motivating Teams

HOW TO GET POSITIVE
ATTITUDE?
Be open
Be
Balanced
Think Right
towards
People
Manage
your Anger
Remove
word
impossible
Winning
Attitude
Aim High
Never Give
up
Think
solution not
problem

SELF CHANGE
Attitude
Thinking
Behaviour

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR
ATTITUDE?
 Change happen personality from
the inside out.
So…
I Accept full Responding.

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR
THINKING?
 Change comes from thinking
logically in every situation.

TIPS TO CHANGE YOUR
THINKING
 Power of positive Affirmations
 Meditate daily
 Be a master of your moods
 Wake up with a resolve to stay happy during the day
 Seek happiness and contentment in the present
 Allow yourself to be play and childlike

 Appreciate and enjoy what you already have
 Learn to apply fullstop.
 body is our temple, honour it.
 Focus on changing yourself rather than changing the
world around you.

How to change your Behaviour
 Changes takes true assessment
,determination and discipline.

 Reactive
CHOOSE YOUR BEHAVIOUR
Stimulus Response

 Responsible
Stimulus
My
Choice
My
response

CONCLUSION
 Teacher plays a very important role to produce
a human capital that is highly knowledgeable
and skillful to meet the demand and
expectations of many people. The teaching
and learning processes in institutions of higher
learning should be capable to provide such
knowledge and skills to future graduates.

RECAP
 What is hard skills?
 What is soft skills?
 Importance of soft skills
 Differences
 Important soft skills
– Basic skills
– People skills
– Personal skills
– Thinking skills

RECAP
 To improve soft skills
 Role of prospective teachers towards soft
skills
 Change In
– Methodology of teaching
– Classroom management
– Assessment and evaluation
 Conclusion