This includes basic skills, personal skills and thinking skills for prospective teachers.

1. BRIDGE COURSE-2021
COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS & PERSONALITY
25. 11. 2021
V.O.C.COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
THOOTHUKUDI

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

3. SOFT SKILLS
THE SUCCESS FOR
PROSPCTIVE TEACHERS

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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”

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. SOFT SKILLS
Basic skills
People skills
Personal skills
Thinking skills

14. BASIC SKILS
Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Speaking
Listening

15. PEOPLE SKILLS
Social
Negotiation
Leadership
Team work
Cultural Diversity

16. PERSONAL SKILLS
Self-Esteem
Self-Management
Responsibility

17. THINKING SKILLS
Creative Thinking
Problem-Solving
Decision Making
Visualization

18. 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

19. 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.

20. SUGGESSION
 Methodology of teaching
 Classroom Management
 Assessment and Evaluation

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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

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

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

27. Activities

28. 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.

29. 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

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