Learn the most important soft skills needed for a teacher to become best in his career. Read and inculcate the skills, in you and see why and where these are necessary

1. Soft Skills
for a TEACHER
Rajashri Bhairamadgi

2. Roles of Teacher
There are synonymous names for a teacher like tutor,
educator, facilitator, instructor, pedagogue, guide,
mentor, professor, lecturer, guru etc.
Roles of a teacher can be:
— Facilitator,
— Role model,
— Information provider,
— Resource developer,
— Planner,
— Assessor and much more

3. Roles of Teacher

4. Soft skills
What are soft skills?
Soft skills are nothing but personal
attributes that enable someone to
interact effectively and harmoniously
with other people.

5. Soft skills

6. 10. Most important soft skills for a teacher
1. Communicator
2. Creative
3. Organiser
4. Advance planner
5. Positive psychology
6. Stress manager
7. Motivator
8. Supervisor
9. Technologist
10. Co-ordinator

7. 1. Communicator
Most of the teacher’s part of work is communicating or
sharing information they have with them. They have to
communicate with students, parents, other teachers,
management, school authority etc. Teacher should be
strong communicator as well as listener.
— Good communicator listen and respond ensuring that
everyone will have solid understanding in between.
— The information sharing way can be:
Written Oral
Activity Demonstration
Teacher’s corner School’s Magazine

8. 2. Creative
— Making use of ideas and creativity is one of the most
important soft skill teacher should have. Teacher can
use the creativity in teaching languages, science,
mathematics classes.
— Creative teacher can make use of the available
resources and can develop a new way of teaching.
— Creativity can reflect in:
Preparing teaching aids Activity classes
Teaching methods Guiding students
Art and craft classes Drawing
Solving exercises Sum up the lesson

9. 3. Organiser
— Teacher must be a good organiser, should keep all
required things at a place from where he/she can
access easily.
— Which things should he/she organise?
Curriculum Yearly syllabus plan
Weekly subject plan Daily lesson plan
Study material Answer keys
Attendance records Unit & Sem test sheets
Report cards Student’s notebooks

10. 4. Advance planner
Teacher should plan everything in advance
1. What to teach?
2. Where to teach?
3. Whom to teach?
4. Why to teach? and
5. In which way to teach?
— This makes the teacher to work properly on the
required time. This increase his/her
Creativity Communication
Teaching Confidence.

11. Teacher help in planning student’s future

12. 5. Positive Psychology
A teacher must continue his work with positive energy,
a good attitude and with a specific aim. This will help
him/her to accomplish work on time and with
satisfaction.
— Positive psychology will help teacher to work in any
condition, in loads and in time of celebrations or
school’s special days without any hurry or stress.
— This will make a teacher more confident and
successful.

13. Positivity in everything

14. 6. Stress Manager
A teacher should be a stress manager because this is
going to make his daily life in and outside the school
easy way. A stress managing educator is live his/her
life smoothly.
— Educator can give better in school to his students,
colleagues, management and authority as well as at
home to his family, friends and relatives.
— He can be more productive and successful.

15. Changes view towards life

16. 7. Motivator
A good teacher is always motivates his students to give
their best output. He/she work with them in the lights
of their intelligence and make their life successful.
— If teacher is with positive energy to do everything,
students became active, interactive and productive.
They give their best at all the hard time, learn their
values for life and becomes successful in the area
they are perfect.
— So motivation goes to students from the motivated
teacher.

17. A teacher is best motivator

18. 8. Supervisor
Teacher’s role as a supervisor is to develop the
required skills and competencies in the student to
enable him/her to function effectively in the basic
education.
• A good teacher supervises
student’s study, neatness,
behavior, values inculcated in them,
observe and assess, communication,
Creativity, way of writing
and many more things they do daily in the school.

19. A teacher always supervises students work

20. 9. Technologist
Computer technology prepares teacher for the use of
their skills in the real classroom situation and also make
students for their future occupation and social life. In
this era (and Covid-19 situation) Computer techniques
as a medium for teaching and learning.
• If a teacher is well versed with computer
techniques can independently work and prepare
Own lessons notes, Educational videos,
Take online class, Prepare worksheets,
Check the study, Type and check test papers,
Make the result ready

21. A teacher always make use of new technology

22. 10. Co-ordinator
A teacher should co-ordinate between the management,
students and parents to bring the schools curriculum
live. Teachers are responsible to drive the planned
programs by school and utilize all those in routine.
— Roles of teacher as a co-ordinator :
Deliver best learning experience
Documentation management
Class and team Representative
Organizing resources provided
Time manager for completing curriculum

23. Best teacher always co-ordinate with all

24. “Follow the soft skills
to make the
teaching soft
and
learning easy.”