Get Your Students Hired
The research behind teh importance of soft skills should help us to be intentional with teaching and modeling them.
What is a helpful lecture on soft skills? It was loaded with many common-sense tips be I still need to be reminded of these critical points.
Hard skills only! Just kidding, seems we all understand the need to understand a student as a person in order to best assist them through their education.
Aside: Want to save the world? Everyone read or reread the best hippie psych book ever, Dr. Harris' I'm OK, You're Ok.
It doesn't matter how intelligent or how many hard skills you have, if you don't have soft skills any knowledge you have won't be utilized for very long!
Common sense is something we assume all people have & they don't necessarily have it. We take common sense for granted; it is the foundation for having strong people skills.
A combination of technical skills along with soft skills are what it takes to have a successful role in teaching. Common Sense and the ability to consider others make up a massive percentage for what it takes to be effective.
I had not really considered comman sense as a softskill nor home many factors are considered to be a feature of comman sense.