Effectiveness of Soft Skills on Teaching Competencies at Higher Educational Institution: A Narrative Review Article
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https://doi.org/10.62997/psi.2024a-31018Keywords:
Soft Skills, Communication Skills, Time Management Skills, Leadership Skill, Adaptability Skills, Teaching CompetenciesAbstract
Soft skills encompass personality qualities, social graces, linguistic facility, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that individuals develop as they grow and mature. Higher educational institutions expect high classroom performance from university teachers. Teachers' soft skills and teaching competencies are the most prominent factors leading to such outcomes, whereas, in pursuit of improving teaching competencies, the teachers accomplish high classroom performance. This implies that the quality of teachers depends on the soft skill implementation and specific teaching competencies executed by the university teachers. Soft skills act as a catalyst for teaching competencies and classroom performance. This paper examines the important role of soft skills for university teachers. It is purely a conceptual paper. The study relies heavily on secondary sources of information derived from various published data sets. This study concludes that soft skills are crucial for university teachers to develop students effectively. A significant recommendation of this study is to create awareness among university faculty regarding soft skills through seminars and conferences.
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