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Teacher's Professional Competence: New Challenges, Realities And Prospects

Table 1:

Types of soft skills Common soft skills Teacher’s soft skills
1 Abilities 1. Cognitive abilities:– cognitive flexibility;– creativity;– logical reasoning;– sensitivity to problems;– mathematical argumentation;Visualization Creativity(able to produce ideas and transform them into a creative product; capable of organizing, implementing and managing the creative process)Math literacyDigital literacyPersonal results (understands and recognizes the professional significance of the implemented activities; is ready to solve professional problems; determines the prospects for further work and possible risks; carries out personal and professional reflection)
2. Physical abilities:- physical health;- fine motor skills Self-organization and self-development, including health protection (the ability to maintain the proper level of physical fitness to ensure full social and professional activities)
2 Basic skills 1. Content skills:– active learning;– oral communication;– active reading;– written communications;– information literacy Communication (the ability to present group and individual results verbally (report, answers to questions) and written forms (textual and graphical presentation of the content)Systemic thinking (the ability to search, analyse and synthesize information)Reading literacyDigital literacyPersonal results (understands and recognizes the professional significance of the implemented activities; is ready to solve professional problems; determines the prospects for further work and possible risks; carries out personal and professional reflection)
2. Process skills:– active listening;– critical thinking;– introspection and analysis Critical thinking (ability to carry out critical analysis of information)Digital literacyPersonal results (understands and recognizes the professional significance of the implemented activities; is ready to solve professional problems; determines the prospects for further work and possible risks; carries out personal and professional reflection)
3 Cross-functional skills 1. Social skills– coordination;– emotional intelligence;– negotiation;– the ability to convince;– customer focus;– training others Cooperation (able to formulate goals and objectives, carry out planning, organize and implement professional activities in accordance with the goal, select the means to achieve the goal, evaluate the results of professional activity, manage it)Computational and algorithmic literacyDigital literacyPersonal results (understands and recognizes the professional significance of the implemented activities; is ready to solve professional problems; determines the prospects for further work and possible risks; carries out personal and professional reflection)
2. Skills for solving complex problems
3. System skills:– decision making;– system analysis
4. Resource management skills:– financial;– material;– human;– time management
5. Technical skills:– technological literacy;– operational literacy;– programming;– quality control;– technological customer focus;– diagnosis of technical problems
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