Instructor Soft Skills Workshop

Created By: Hayley Williams

Introduction
This workshop is designed to increase your knowledge and practice of soft
skills instruction. We will explore soft skills more in depth and select
methods that are most appropriate for your students and classrooms.
Workshop Goal: Within a self-selected class teachers will effectively and
regularly teach soft skills to students.
Length: 3.15 hour session, 5:45pm-9:00pm

Objectives
Instructors will be able to
explain the importance of soft skills.
discuss and classify barriers in order to overcome them.
explain the importance of building relationships with community
agencies in order to provide soft skills learning opportunities for
students
determine the soft skills you feel most confident implementing in their
instruction.
identify the most appropriate method for integrating soft skills into
your instruction
demonstrate modeling of soft skills

Workshop Schedule
Part I. Welcome/Introduction
goal & objectives
review pre-workshop activities
parking lot/ review questions
Part II. Establishing Purpose
Reflection
What are soft skills?
Barriers to soft skill instruction
Resources
Part III. Application
Identifying practical soft skill to teach
How to teach soft skills in a meaningful way
Expectations for applying these within the classroom
Part IV. Conclusion
Revisit goals and objectives
Parking lot questions
Evaluation