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Thesis & Portfolio

Research Question

RQ: How do primary school teachers perceive the role of social skills in facilitating or hindering the development of students' ability to succeed in life?

SQ1: How are social skills defined by educators in the field and what role do they play in school?

SQ2: What are common ways known by educators in national and international schools to teach and assess social skills in the educational field?

Thesis

SQ3: What are the challenges of teaching social skills in primary schools?

Key Terms

* What are soft skills?

"We define soft skills as intra- and inter-personal (socio-emotional) skills, essential for personal development, social participation and workplace success. They include skills such as communication, ability to work on multidisciplinary teams, adaptability etc. These skills should be distinguished from technical, or “hard skills”." (Kechagias, 2011, p. 33)

Key Terms

* What are social skills?

“Social and emotional skills are a set of individual capacities that can be manifested in consistent

patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that enable people to develop themselves, cultivate

their relationships at home, school, work and in the community, and exercise their civic

responsibilities” (OECD, 2019, p. 4)

References

Kechagias, K. (2011). Teaching and assessing soft skills.

OECD. (2019). Conceptual Learning Framework - Skills for 2030. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and learning/learning/skills/Skills_for_2030_concept_note.pdf

Background Information

* 28 Participants

* age range from 16-40

* average experience 3.4 years

* majority were employed as a teacher

Participants

* working in international school, national school, university, bilingual schools, & christian primary school

* Curricula they were familiar with are PYP, IPC, & German Lehrplan

Methods for Data collection

Questionnaire

- for qualitative data

- answering all sub-questions

Methods

Interviews

- for qualitative data

- answering mainly sub-questions 2 & 3

Questionnaire Results

* social skills have a high impact on students sucess in life

* participants feel responsible for teaching social skills

Main Outcomes

* more than half of the participants are saying that both teachers and parents are responsible to teach social skills

* What would make the participants feel more supported in promoting social skills development?

Extra planning time, Additional Training, & Designated lesson time

Difficulties

Difficulties

- limited time (sampling size + Interview Participants)

- no TP school to collect data

- not being in a proper learning environment

- unexpected events distracting

Improvements

- using specific target group

- using various ways to distribute questionnaire (sample size)

- more detailed questionnaire

Organizational- and Subject Knowledge & Methodological Competency

- Objectives/Goals

1. Using multiple strategies to solve one task to allow students to work autonomously and choose their preferred method of working, such as creating a poster, writing a text, recording a video, and so on.

2. Exchanging ideas with the classroom teacher and using materials that are given by the school for example books, manipulatives, school provided platforms to share results, exhibitions, experiments, presentations.

- How to be achieved

- Reflection (last TP)

- Reflection (of all years)

Portfolio

Evidence 1

Evidence

Evidence 2

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