Ultimately, projects, etc. have to be proposed, presented, and promoted. It takes soft skills to do carry this out successfully. Please present your examples.

What are your thoughts on the use and management of body language in response to situations that arise in the classroom?

I feel like I really got great things to help me on every page!Time keeping to prioritizing was great. Life long learner just knowing how to learn and I feel that all of us at some has to do a self assessment at some time in our lives.Cant say enough about this corse Thankyou!

How would soft skills be useful in the classroom.

the ability to deliver quality experience from corporate America has proven to be most valuable for many college students entering the job market.

how effective are your soft skills.

It is a great opportunity to discuss emotional intelligence when teaching the Student Success course, it helps students to understand the importance of managing themselves and how they relate to others.

I was really surprised to see that the study resulted in 15% importance of Tech skills versus 85% for Soft skills. It makes sense, I suppose, when I stopped to think about it, but that number was a real eye opener. I've always sort of felt that soft skills were important for teachers, as we deal with people on a constant basis. It was really refreshing to see that those skills are appreciated in other industries as well! Very enlightening!

I knew or had heard about soft skills but I did not know much about Emotional Intellegence and how they are related. It is important for me to know how my or other people's emotions can influence the classroom. I like when the course points out that you want to control the emotions not the behavior in your classroom. Thanks for making me more aware of this!

Sometimes this task can be easy but sometimes it becomes a real challenge to do. Some students do well with it while others tend to struggle.

How do you test soft skills in the classroom setting?

What if a colleague uses your hand-outs and other materials or adopt some of your procedures and present them as hers without even mentioning your name as source. Will it be more efficient to talk to the person or to just keep quiet about it.

If the instructor wants to be effective in transferring the knowledge, they must feel the knowledge they share and feel the ones they share it with. That seems to be the catalyst for a successful learning environment. In the classroom one of the ingredients are missing, the feeling for the subject matter or the feelings for the students. How can one achieve both if the work environment does not really cultivate those qualities? Monique

Todays learners must have a desire to push themselves to engage in further training,computer skills,self-management,and ethics to become the BEST they can possibly be!

Technology today makes students lazy. Immediate answers are at their fingertips 24/7. They do not learn materials for a life time of recollection, rather for a moment to pass a test. Anything that can be done, there is a YouTube video for and information on the internet. Students feel they can look up information at anytime; therefore long-term retention is lost.

Instructors are role models that should lead by example. As an instructor you should display a sense of time management by starting class on time and ending on time. An instructors attitude should inspire and motivate students.

Hard intelligence and IQ is known by everyone. Same with me. I never thought of soft intelligence so important. But after going through this topic I realize that soft intelligence is very important in the daily life. The way we interact with students and other collegues is mainly based on soft intelligence. and success in the jobs and putting impact on students life is not depends on IQ only, mostly on EQ.So to be succesful in this respect we should be more focused on EQ then IQ.

I truly enjoyed taking this online program. I thought I knew exactly what "soft skills" contained, but, in fact, I learned much more about myself than I thought. I learned that I need to concentrate more on my own "personal" feelings, when discussing, teaching and relating to my coworkers on a day to day basis. I also believe, that "body language" has much to do with our "soft skills' as well as, our personal, verbal communication.

I teach in a program that is heavily technology-based, and I often find that some students have difficulty remembering HOW to complete a particular task on the hardware or in the software; however, they have no problem remember the loads of technical jargon that goes along with this field. The issue I've found is that many students have had it printed into their brain that studying is all reading and bookwork. What I do to solve this issue, and also to get the students learning at home, is give them short hands-on homework projects. Albeit many students do not always own the software at home, and have to come up to the labs to work; this forces the students to immerse themselves in project-based self-learning. Over the last few years, I have slowly shifted my class emphasis to about 50% project-based/self-learning assignments, 50% exams/quizzes/writing assignments. This has worked out well for most students. Ultimately, this is what they will have to do in the professional world anyway. Every couple of a years a new version of the software or hardware is released, which will require them to re-learn the material each time.

After covering a topic I will break the groups down by their tables. I will write down the main systems we are discussing on the board so they know what the topics of our discussion will be. Have each group add an explanation of the system to each topic and discuss the answers amongst the groups