Soft Skills Competency Tool for Secondary Teachers in Strengthening Effective Communication and Interpersonal Competence – A Case Study | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

It is said that a mediocre teacher tells, a good teacher explains, a superior teacher demonstrates and a great teacher inspires. A great teacher can make a student feel inspired; as though h/she can do anything in the world if h/she sets his/her mind to it. The objectives of this research are to examine the level of soft skills among secondary school teachers on the basis of gender. Two research questions are to examine in this paper: (1) what is the relationship between male and female and their level of communication skills. (2) What is the relationship between male and female and their level of inter personal relationship skills. The analysis is based on survey method of 6 different secondary school male female teachers of Lohardaga Dist. Jharkhand. Random sample was drawn from 92 secondary school teachers to collect the data self- constructed and standardized tool was developed and used to administer the test. Pearson Product moment correlation and t - test were used to analyses the data. Findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference in the level of communication skills in male and female secondary school teachers and also there is no significant difference in the level of interpersonal relationship skills in the male and female secondary school teachers.